Comments by Christopher Golda

Robert: You have to "overwrite" FriendFeed's CSS for that selector -- specifically the white-space: nowrap. Hope that helps

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Robert: It's possible to get those FF comments in the widget to wrap (as they do with the "likes") -- look at the CSS for .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment

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Congrats, Patrick!

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Our BackType Connect plugin is intended to serve the people that aren't using Disqus - we aren't a competing comment system, we enhance the native Wordpress comment system. So we don't really compete with Disqus; in fact, we're constantly looking for ways to work with them. Anything that improves the conversation on blogs is great for all of us!

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The comments themselves are context (for the page they are in response to), similar to a "like" on an entry. You would probably get most of the value just saying "X commented on Y," though I've seen BackType entries start new conversations here which is cool. I also think the comment text is useful b/c it discerns the "like" or "dislike."

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Congrats on the launch, Gary.

My vote goes to Etsy’s CEO for your next guest appearance. This is an interesting direction for you, but why the three minute segment at the end on wine? Is it really that complementary to the content this show will be running?

Anyway, looking fwd to the new Cork’d (I’m guessing that’s next)

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Timeliness is important for product search, but my pt is that real-time usually doesn’t matter. I don’t need product opinions within seconds of them being created. Within minutes or hours (or days, or even weeks or months in some cases) is fine. I’d rather get Robert Scobles 12 hour old opinion of a tech product than Billy’s 12 second old opinion. So I agree, “relevance is driven by trust within a time frame,” but that time frame is almost never required to be real-time.

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I am feeling _very_ jealous right now. When I get back to Mountain View, I am going to eat this every day for a week :(

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What makes (real-)time so relevant for product search? Generally, it doesn’t matter if someone says something about some product a second, a day, a month, or sometimes even a year ago.

“People by nature trust recommendations made by people they know or respect.”

If that’s the case, don’t you think relevancy is driven mostly by trust rather than time?

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Creating "skins of data" is more entrepreneur friendly than investor friendly. Micro-M&A deals are just glorified hiring bonuses. It follows that investors, in my opinion, should focus on platforms (markets) as they both create and capture the most value. Nevertheless, developing "skins" to help us understand the overwhelming amount of data available on the open web is still a noble cause. I just think it becomes much more meaningful at a larger scale than the word "skin" suggests.

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We just created a widget for this:
http://www.backtype.com/widgets

It looks like all our other widgets, but is customizable via CSS.

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Thanks, Joe. This is very cool. It's also something we could make available very easily via our API (by username or URL). On user profiles, we show a "blogroll" based on where a user comments (limited to 50 or so blogs). For example:

http://www.backtype.com/fredwilson

We'll make a widget right now that shows up to X blogs sorted by activity. Fred, is that something you'd be interested in?

Update: The widget is available @ http://www.backtype.com/widgets

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We pick up comments from FF within seconds usually; however, we had to implement a small deficiency in the interest of quality -- for certain types of FF entries, we ignore the first comment (as it is usually generated by the entry itself, or a quotation). We went a little overkill so we're going to do something more clever to solve that problem, instead of ignoring those comments completely.

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Pressures to open will eventually transform “Deep Now Web” (or more accurately, the private Now Web) data into easily accessible Now Web data. The current level of open Now Web data still presents a huge opportunity imho. Twitter is a convenient example because of its scale, openness and simplicity, but there's a lot more open Now Web data out there.

ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

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We're definitely going to have this available through the API, so look out for our release.

In addition to Digg, Reddit and Hacker News, we're looking at other blogs as well as FriendFeed and Twitter.

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