Mar 6th Announcing BackType Connect

Today, we launched BackType Connect, a feature that shows you all the conversations surrounding a particular article or post. It connects the "conversational graph," including tweets from Twitter and comments from blogs, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit and other social media. Bloggers and other publishers can track where people are engaging with their content, and readers can discover active conversations about the topics that interest them.

BackType Connect

BackType Connect

We’ve also made a bookmarklet available so you can quickly and easily lookup conversations for an article or post right after you’re done reading it.

Here’s an example where we connect conversations surrounding Thomas Friedman’s recent op-ed in the New York Times entitled, "Start Up the Risk Takers."

Let us know what you think!

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7 Responses to “Announcing BackType Connect”

Kol Tregaskes says:
Mar 7th at 2:44 pm

This is excellent. I'd love it too if somehow I could have all the comments attached to my blog articles appeared with my article on my blog?

Stephanie Booth says:
Mar 8th at 9:04 am

1) Ugh — I typed my comment, then logged in to disqus, and my comment was wiped from the comment field (not so nice)

2) original comment: so, does this mean it'll be possible to have something a bit like the “show friendfeed conversations” plugin for wordpress, only covering more zones of the conversational prism? (I prefer prism to graph in this context, honestly)

Stephanie Gerson says:
Mar 11th at 5:18 pm

instead of actively looking up a URL in order to see its conversation, is there any way to get ALERTS when there have been comments on a post? I comment on lots of posts everyday, and I'd like to know when there have been new comments made on those posts, because perhaps those comments are responding to me. how to make this a push feature rather than a pull feature?

Christopher Golda says:
Mar 11th at 5:26 pm

Thanks for your comment. We have a feature called BackType Subscriptions that does what you're looking for, but it will only alert you on comments that were directly in response to the post you're interested in (whereas Connect shows multiple conversations happening on Twitter, Digg, Reddit, other blogs, etc)

Hope this helps:
http://www.backtype.com/subscriptions

Stephanie Gerson says:
Mar 11th at 5:33 pm

that's perfect, Christopher – thank you!

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Mar 15th at 7:56 pm

Yeah, it is really brilliant.

Rolf Schewe says:
Mar 16th at 11:57 pm

The link I connect to disappears when I return to the Connect page. Is it this way by design? If so why don't you allow us to at least store the URLs in our account ?

Interesting feature. Just trying to figure out what the boundaries are to this option.

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