Sep 29th BackType Widgets

Several people have been asking for a way to display their latest comments on their blog, so today we’re releasing two widgets for bloggers and other website owners. Both widgets are stretch-to-fit, designed to fit in the sidebar of a blog. For those who want to change the appearance or contents of our widgets, you can easily do so with a few lines of CSS.

Here are the widgets that are available:

  • My Latest Comments (on this blog)
  • My Shared Comments

You can see the latest comments made using our official BackType profile in the right hand column of this blog. Visit the widgets page to learn more, or login and learn how you can add widgets to your site with a single line of HTML.

If there’s something else you want for your blog, let us know.

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9 Responses to “BackType Widgets”

Tom says:
Sep 30th at 12:15 am

Be careful! If you were to create a script which posts a comment to your blog each time the blog widget gets a comment from you, then you would quickly destroy the space-time continuum with an infinite loop.

Backtype… you're writing code willy-nilly without thinking about the consequences of your actions! Life is no game, sirs!

Dan says:
Sep 30th at 1:32 am

And just like Google, you pay me for each comment you index correct?

ad says:
Sep 30th at 4:20 am

Free comment from me to you.

Dan_Mayer says:
Sep 30th at 4:45 am

Cool I have been watching BackType for awhile. I think it has some really interesting ideas and I am interested to see how it evolves in the future.

Mike Montano says:
Sep 30th at 4:49 am

Thanks so much! We've got lots of cool stuff still to come. If you have any ideas or feedback please feel free to email me anytime at mm [at] backtype [dot] com.

TracyRosen says:
Oct 4th at 1:50 pm

I am using the widget and I love it as a way to track my comments.

However I'm wondering how often it updates. I have left quite a few comments over the past few days using at least one of the urls in my address list, but the last comment that shows on the widget is from 3 days ago.

Is there a way to force updates?
Thanks!
Tracy

golda says:
Oct 4th at 9:05 pm

It may have a five minute delay before refreshing the comments to match your profile. Can you let me know where you've been commenting @ cg [at] backtype [dot] com so we can look into it?

Thanks

Torley says:
Oct 25th at 1:20 am

Big w00t thanx to Mike Montano for letting me know about this! I'm trying it out on torley.com and just blogged:

ยป http://torley.com/backtype-makes-comment-tracki...

Would like to see a way to set # of comments, and show an excerpt of the actual comment. That'd be useful without overcomplicating how easy it is to copy-and-paste the JavaScript. Thank-you for considering! =)

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