Do you bother about comments made by your friends or others on your products? Are you keen on following and sharing what's being commented on the Web just like the way you follow people on Twitter? This is where BackType comes to your help. The service lets you find, follow or even share comments from across the web.
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| Applies To: IT Mangers, webmasters Price: Free USP: Get updates on your blog posts whenever someone comments on them Primary Link: http://www.backtype.com/ Google Keywords: Find and share comments |
website, BackType attributes it to you. The service gives authors a profile with all the comments they have made on the Web. BackType gives your comments a home where they can be found, followed and shared. Working with BackType is easy. Simply log onto the site mentioned above and register yourself. You will be taken to the Dashboard straight as shown in the screenshot below. Click on 'Claim Comments', enter the URLs of the websites you use while commenting on blogs, and click on 'Import Comments'. This brings you all comments made on different blogs specified. Now to review you account details, simply click on 'Edit Account' and enter the details. The Twitter updates page allows you to send updates of your comment activity to Twitter. To do this, click on the link 'Twitter' in the right-hand side, enter the login details and you're done.
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| This shows the dashboard. To create a subscription and get upda tes on a post, click on 'Subscriptions' and enter the blog post URL. | This shows the URLs of websites you use to comment. Enter the URLs of sites and click on 'Import Comments'. |
Another feature called BackType Alert enables you to create an alert for search terms. Whenever any such search term is mentioned anywhere in the blogosphere, you get an email update. To do this, click on 'Alerts', enter the search terms in the box and click on 'Create Alert'. This lets you monitor your personal brand, products and services. This also helps you participate in discussions that interest you. Besides, there is one more interesting feature called 'BackType Connect'. It shows you the whole gamut of conversations around an article or blog post. This include tweets and comments from blogs. To do this, click on 'Connect' and enter the article URL and you're through with it.
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