Aug 27th Introducing BackType
BackType is a website that lets people find, follow and share comments from across the web. Comments play an important role in social media; there are millions of comments written every single day. BackType’s technology crawls and indexes millions of comments so you can search them by topic or follow those written by the people you care about.
Summary
- BackType gives comments a home where they can be discovered, followed and shared
- BackType lets you search for comments on a specific topic and follow those written by the people you care about
- On BackType, registered users can aggregate all their comments on their profile and they can follow an aggregation of comments written or shared by the people they’re following
- Blogs and other websites don’t need to install any third party applications or plug-ins and comment authors don’t need to change their behavior
- Listening to and participating with customers in online conversations is important to businesses and brands; over 70 percent of social media conversations occur in comments
- BackType search is great for businesses because they can find comments that mention their industry, products, services, competitors, etc
About BackType
BackType lets people find, follow and share comments from across the web. BackType was founded by Christopher Golda and Michael Montano; it received funding from Y Combinator in June, 2008.
BackType, Inc is a privately-held consumer Internet start-up based in Mountain View, CA.
Contact
E-mail: hello [at] backtype [dot] com
Twitter: @backtype
Phone: (415) 830-6351
Track comments about BackType: http://www.backtype.com/comments?q=backtype
Track posts about BackType: http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.backtype.com/
Track tweets about BackType: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=backtype
Tags: backtype, blog search, comment search, comments, conversation, conversational media, conversational search, discussion, social media, social media monitoring
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Looks very usefull to me.
One (hard ;-)) question for you (to help me to better understand your service and decide which one I should use): how do you position yourself compared with services like co.ments.com or cocomment.com that both track conversations and help users to follow/share conversations ?
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Co.mments.com lets you track comment threads for individual posts if you bookmark them.
CoComment lets you track comment threads for individual posts through a browser plug-in.
They are quite different from BackType. Hope that helps.
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However, as I want to track conversations, I do not see any issue in installing a browser plugin. But I understand it might be a problem for some people.
Now, I'm not totally sure I understand how you will know I want to track a particular conversation. Can I notify your service that I want to do so or are you monitoring the millions of conversations happening on the web ? (blogs, media sites, ....)
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BackType is really about:
- Following comments by topic (via search)
- Following comments by author (via profile)
If you want to follow a specific conversation, BackType simply links to the blog where the conversation is taking place.
Good luck :)
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True, my main goal is to track conversations I'm participating in. So I was wrongly oriented to your service.
But I will still have a deeper look at the features you mention. Seems to be very interesting.
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and thanks to add my site
one qustion
why it took long time to track a comments in my site ?
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Thanks for the feedback.
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Best wishes
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