Livefyre Aims To Put Out The Comment Troll Problem; Gets Funding Commenting on the web is broken. Visit just about any site large enough on the Internet and you’ll notice it. Sure, there are useful comments every once in a while, but there are more comments that are either jokes, stupid, or just downright cruel.
Facebook Comments: What’s Easy Isn’t Always Right Editor’s note: Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre, a realtime commenting and conversation platform for publishers and online communities. He doesn’t think much of Facebook comments. In this guest post, he explains why. I’m not gonna lie, I hate Facebook Comments. It’s not just because it competes with my company’s product (though I’m sure that has something to do with it).
Echo Prepares World for Migration to a Web of Streams The foundation of the Web is moving from one of unchanging static pages to continually updated streams fed by external services. Gone is the time when publishing an article or a site was the final step in creating content. Instead, this can often signify the beginning of the content's life, as it is shared, retweeted, liked, commented on, and further distributed. Echo, a company that first made its name in the comments space, explained to a full hall of industry onlookers Tuesday morning that dynamic social experiences are going to rule the future of the Internet, further arguing they have placed themselves at the center of this trend, having built a flexible environment for people to tap into the activity streams and benefit from the Web's continued evolution, instead of seeing visitors capitulate to household name social networks. "We have coded up to the API and no further," said Loux. "It's scary as we can't solve anyone's problem ourselves.
Should Blizzard Require Real World Names From World of Warcraft Uprising in Azeroth! When World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment announced this week that it would soon require its players to use Real ID log-ins to participate in its online community forum, the company probably wasn’t expecting the backlash that followed. Instead of buying Blizzard’s explanation that using real names to post forum comments would discourage “flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness run wild”, the Activision-owned studio is now under siege from its own outraged players, with its forum ironically buried under thousands of infuriated posts from folks who don’t want their real identity linked to their WoW activity. (Typical sample: “Blizzard, your stupidity knows no bounds.”)
Dear Google: You Can’t Threaten People Into Being Social: Tech News and Analysis « There have been signs over the past few months that Google is feeling the pressure to step up its social efforts — the +1 features it announced a week ago being just one of them. But the clearest indication yet is a memo from newly-minted CEO Larry Page that told employees their bonuses are effectively on the line if the company’s social efforts don’t work. The Google co-founder may see it as a carrot, but many of his employees are likely to see it as a stick — and you can’t threaten people into being social. In a nutshell, Page’s memo (the existence of which we have confirmed independently), tells staff that 25 percent of their annual bonuses are at risk if Google’s social efforts aren’t successful.
Echo Integrates Janrain Engage for Social Login and Sharing We are excited to let everyone know about an expanded relationship with Echo, a leading provider of real-time social technologies including comments, recents comments and news rivers. In October 2010 we announced the availability of an integration between Janrain Engage and Echo to make it easy for organizations using both Janrain and Echo products to enable users to link their site level authentication with the embedded Echo functionality. Today we are excited to announce that Echo has chosen to use Janrain Engage as the default, bundled login technology for the next version of its products – echo 2. Users will be able to easily login using an existing identity from major providers such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter to comment and share their activity across their social networks. “The web is evolving to offer a set of powerful cloud building blocks, such as Echo’s StreamServer Real-time as a Service.
Troll face Trollface is a meme that celebrates and disparages the Internet troll and the act of purposefully creating controversy and havoc in online communities. Trollface originated with a short comic posted to 4chan's /v/ boards around November of 2008, and soon the face was cut, pasted, and photoshopped into any situation that had been or needed to be trolled. Trollface captures the sadistic pleasure of trolling, but is also used as a justification for misinformation. It's a reminder that we are all taking this too seriously, and that we were just trolling you anyway.
Implicit Web Based Social Networks on Web Forums Ideally I think that such tools are best if they extend across multiple sites. Some kind of open API would be good like RSS feeds. Tools could even be desktop based instead of web based. However, some things I would suggest to try to introduce these ideas into vbulitin are:
What is Echo StreamServer? Yesterday we announced a new Echo product called StreamServer . There is very little more I can say that Khris Loux has not already said so eloquently on stage at the #e2 launch event When you work so hard and long on something (depending on how you look at it, StreamServer was either 15, 2.5 or 1 year in the making) its hard to sum it all up in one, 1 hour event. But that’s what we tried to do. We tried to thread the needle between a contemporary story about activity data, the existential change (read: opportunity or threat) occurring on the web as traffic and monetization flows to proprietary social networking platforms, the opportunity for every major node on the web to be just as powerful and innovative, the need for open standards and powerful cloud services as the basis of the the rebuttal and our deep desire to make this an industry wide effort. We also tried to communicate that this was not just a pipe dream, but rather a commercial reality for major customers.