Sumolabs

I have been quite impressed with Disqus.com lately. Their technology allows bloggers to permit commenters to use the same login ID across all the blogs that use it (and then present aggregate views, etc). Essentially, it is a blog commenter aggregator and authentication service.

Now when I troll around commenting my mind off on other blogs, I don't have to login at every corner. It solves a problem that needed to be solved.

Indeed, this move by disqus has really neat implications: This is one of the first applications where other websites have so freely passed on authentication and large chunks of data to a third party.

One of the big missing features in Disqus is a comment importer (i.e. Do you see my old comments? No... Exactly. I could not import them). Once they have this feature, this killer app will go serial killer app.

I am also keen to see how they will monetize Disqus. I am OK with them injecting ads into comments as long as Disqus splits the revenue with the content provider.

Some might stretch and call this comment portability. However, comment portability would indicate the elimination of walled gardens, and disqus is just another one (All the comments data sits on their servers).

The commenting system for sumolabs is now Disqus. I'll give it a few months test drive and report back on it then.

Competitors to Disqus include IntenseDebate, and SezWho.