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We now fully support all of The New York Times properties. However, since they do not allow you to publish your comments with a link to your website, you won’t be able to claim comments you leave on NYT and their blogs. Instead, these comments will be available only through search, alerts and subscriptions.

You will, however, be able to claim comments from Yedda, another addition to our support for Q&A services. If you’re a Yedda user, visit the Claim Comments page and enter your username. We’ve also added a service called New Mogul – it’s a business news aggregation site.

If there’s a service or property you want BackType to support, let us know.

Fred Wilson called out for a blogroll today and Arjun Ram commented, saying

Fred, You already sort of have it. If you ever commented on a blog entry that you have it at http://www.backtype.com/fredwilson

With 5000+ comments you do have a blogroll, now if you can get backtype to make it available as a widget than u have it!

It wont be comprehensive but it will have quality!

We followed Arjun’s suggestion and made a blogroll widget, which is now available for users on the widgets page. It orders blogs based on the number of comments you’ve published on them. It looks similar to our previous widgets (one of which is featured right here on this blog), and as usual, it’s fully customizable using CSS.

Have an idea for another widget? Let us know!

One of the services we’ve always been interested in supporting is FriendFeed. Today, FriendFeed comments are live on BackType. To claim your comments, just visit the claim comments page and submit your FriendFeed username. This is also great news for people using Search and BackType Alerts – you’ll start receiving timely notifications of activity on FriendFeed that’s of interest to you.

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