TechWinter

Seesmic really seems to be partnering with some high-traffic sites and webservices of which the latest one is Disqus which means Seesmic when from at most a hundred websites (probably much less) to thousands of medium traffic websites/blogs overnight.

This is a good deal for Seesmic for very obvious reasons both in terms of adoption of their service and broader availability and therefore value.

For Disqus though the value of this ‘deal’ is more dependent on your philosophy really, rather than your business strategy. Of course Disqus gains a new feature for commentors but at what cost?

• Seesmic is in private beta, so it is invitation only.  Is Seesmic about to email invites to the entire Disqus user-base?
• Seesmic doesn’t allow for OpenID,
• My comment content is now split between Disqus and Seesmic, because the video is not integrated into Disqus
• and video commentors need to login using a Seesmic username and password which defeats one of the major competitive advantages of using Disqus, the fact that you can ‘login in once’ and comment many times on many sites
• Lastly if you login and comment on my site you then need to login to Seesmic again when you comment on another site.

Is Seesmic going to work with Clickpass to make life easier for Disqus users?

I use Disqus to enhance my community and grow the number and frequency of my audience participation and I need to know, did this help facilitate that requirement or not? How much harder is the conversation to follow now - worse or better?

• Did Disqus give away too much for too little?
• Shouldn’t Disqus focus more on core features such as a proper comment export, trackbacks, and a more developed documented API?