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Re:Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's... by ozanonay on Sunday June 15, 2008 @10:56PM (#218350)
I think this is a better idea than relying on advertising, but do you think there'd be enough demand for a white label version for it to be the core of their model?

Another approach: Fred Wilson's post today on comments constituting blog posts suggests that maybe they're building towards a sort of blogging platform for non-bloggers, where the aggregate of a user's comments on other blogs would form a new low-maintenance blog (on the Disqus site).

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Re:Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's... by louismg on Sunday June 15, 2008 @11:59PM (#218373)
That's an interesting thought. At first, I was thinking what you were suggesting would be very Tumblr-like, but Disqus would centralize your comments elsewhere, and maybe you could opt to pull a subset in to make your new platform?
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Re:Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's... by ozanonay on Monday June 16, 2008 @12:34AM (#218391)
Precisely. Then add simple tools for categorisation, design customisation and so forth.

The point is that there are probably 10 active commentators for each active blogger. Perhaps Disqus is building towards a platform for people like this, who comment actively but who don't want or think they wouldn't be able to run their own blog.

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