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Social activity on blogs in total dwarfs social activity on any particular social network. —David Recordon Open Platforms Tech Lead, Six Apart

Commenting is an incredibly ubiquitous social activity; the reason we created an API is so that developers could leverage our growing dataset of comments for other applications.

Using our API, Wesley from Improving The Web recently created a WordPress plugin called My Comments Elsewhere that caught our attention. In his words,

This plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog.

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If you’re a user of Posterous, now you can claim all comments left on your site and others – just visit the Claim Comments page and enter your Posterous URL. Both your site URL and profile URL will work. For example, here are mine:

• http://golda.posterous.com/
• http://posterous.com/people/KzJvhcHCmt

For those unfamiliar with the service, check it out:

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog.

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Starting today, BackType supports both Mahalo Answers and Yelp. To claim your answers and reviews, visit the claim comments page. This begins our coverage into two new areas for comment-like data: answers and reviews.

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