BackType

To date, we’ve had well over a thousand downloads of the BackType Connect WordPress plugin; now we’re starting to gather feedback and ideas for the next release. Here’s a sample of what we’ve been reading:

Over the last few days, we have been fortunate enough to test the plugin out ourselves and can say with all honestly – it rocks. Once installed, you’ll immediately notice comments from services such as Twitter, Digg, Friendfeed and many many more appearing alongside regular comments on your blog.

—Zee, The Next Web

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Following our API update last week, today we’re releasing the BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress. It brings the functionality of BackType Connect to the WordPress comment system, showing conversations from other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit and more inline with the comments on your blog. Existing conversations about your content taking place across the web can now be displayed right on your blog for your visitors to read and respond to.

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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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