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I’m Reinstalling Disqus - Two Months After Turning Disqus Off

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |

Two months ago, I wrote this blog's most read article: After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to WordPress Comments. The quick, controversial summary is that I installed Disqus ... Read more..

Designing a Compelling Widget: Three Keys to Widget Engagement

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |

This week the Widget World Expo took place in New York and Fred Wilson gave a supposedly terrific speech titled "Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We're Doing". ... Read more..

The Evolution of Social Content: From Email to Blogs to Disqus / FriendFeed

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |

Fred Wilson's last two blog posts are about the changing / evolving blog landscape: 1) the death of "long form blogging" (ironic) 2) the evolution of blog commenting and how comments are ... Read more..

Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 29 Comments »

I'm an avid reader of Fred Wilson's blog and was tempted to test-drive Disqus when Fred first integrated it onto his site. I finally decided to install it on my ... Read more..

AVC (Fred Wilson’s Blog) Now Advertising Through AdSense

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 |

One of the great tech blogs on the web is Fred Wilson's AVC. While it is also one of the web's most popular blogs, apparently Fred is looking to grow ... Read more..