Shyftr Responds to Critics, Alters RSS Commenting Strategy |
| Published: April 13, 2008, 3:05 pm |
| Tags: friendfeed, shyftr, plaxo, favorit |
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Friday night's discussion around the fragmenting of comments between blogs, FriendFeed and RSS readers grew well beyond what I had expected. While the issue of comments and where they should live, relative to the original blog, has come up before, new entrants to the market, like Shyftr, Plaxo and AssetBar made some uncomfortable about how their full feeds were being utilized. After a few days of some high-profile trashing, as well as some supporting posts from people like Robert Scoble and myself, Shyftr has capitulated, by pulling full feeds where discussions are taking place, while retaining full attribution, in hopes to quell fears about stealing the conversation away from bloggers.In a post this morning (RSS Feeds, Community, Publishers, and Revisions), Shyftr's founder, Dave Stanley, reiterates the key goal of Shyftr, namely:"Shyftr was developed to help people find and subscribe to publishers that they otherwise would have never found on their own, through the community and [ Full article ] |
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