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Source: TechCrunch

Nov 12, 2008

Summary

London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet.

There’s real demand for this. Any given blog post, for example, may have lots of comments and trackbacks (links from other blogs discussing the post). But the conversation can soon splinter off as side discussions spring up on Twitter, FriendFeed, or other blogs. uberVU aggregates all that discussion (even trackbacks on trackbacks, for example), and presents it via a threaded interface both on its site and via an API. The company also says they’ll build plugins for the various blog platforms, making it very easy to pull all the data back to the original blog post.

This is an area that startups have experimented with for years, either aggregating by user or by URL. CoComment was an early attempt at aggregating unique user comments across sites (Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, Intense Debate and BackType are more recent examples). Less has been done on aggrega

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Comments (8)

Esjay,

Nov 12, 2008

I really do enjoy watching aggregating technology get meta-aggregated, then aggregated again. Very abstract.

Billso,

Nov 12, 2008

There is a need for high-level aggregation. There are too many social media sites that offer commenting and link posting.

Esjay,

Nov 12, 2008

@billso Sure, I wasn't being sarcastic. I really need someone to tie it all together for me in an intuitive way.

Miketempleton,

Nov 12, 2008

I liked the idea behind Disqus because it was supposed to make blog comments easier to manage, but something that will corral all conversations around a topic (like uberVu) sounds even better.

Billso,

Nov 13, 2008

@esjay, I agree with you. Some sort of meta-aggregation service would be great, as long as it's widely supported.

Krynsky,

Nov 19, 2008

I've had an account there for a while and have been playing and its sorta like Backtype but has other options.

Imjustcreative,

Nov 26, 2008

Im loving BackType so much. It's really got me hooked and has opened up a wonderful selection of new blogs and comments I would otherwise never had known about.

And because I follow carefully, the comments are almost certainly going to be useful to me and entice me to get involved. So looking at any other similar options with open arms.