Today at the TechStars demo day, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, announced that it has acquired enhanced commenting system IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount.
Earlier this year, the site launched a number of news features, including a new Facebook-like chat system, enhanced commenting within tracks, and a recommendation engine that helps compatible artists find each other, effectively enabling it to automatically pick out potential bandmates.
Music collaboration service Indaba has just introduced a number of new features to its site, including a new Facebook-like chat system, enhanced commenting, and a recommendation engine that helps compatible artists find each other, effectively enabling it to automatically pick out potential bandmates.
And I wanted to build on your always highly valued feedback: in redesigning the front page of the site so that it works better for both users and editors; in launching a subsite on Europe; in having a (sometimes painfully) honest debate about moderation; and in experimenting with different ways of drawing on your knowledge and expertise to enhance our comment journalism.
Disqus is a javascript embed or blog plug-in (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType) that enhances blog comments and integrates it with a fully moderated community forum.
This time around, however, it is enhanced by comments from the band looking back, which is illuminating seeing as it has since been perceived as the incident that killed the hippie dream and the anti-Woodstock.
But DIC feels the comments enhance their chances of ultimately buying the club.
"Reader comments enhance the work that we do," she said, "and are one of the great benefits of online journalism".
Not a requirement, but comments enhance content dramatically.
