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Find & Share Comments on the Web Easily

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PCQ Bureau
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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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Direct Hit!

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


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Whenever you publish a comment on a blog or on a 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.

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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