Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments

Blogs, at their best, are like finely tuned forums. Authors serve as moderators, starting discussion threads with posts. Some get particularly heated. But after two months of tuning in beta, Y Combinator’s Disqus is launching to make the forum comparison concrete. It looks like a great addition to heavily trafficked blogs thinking of enhancing their comment system. Disqus is a javascript embed (as below) or blog plug-in (Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType) that enhances your blog’s comments and integrates it with a fully moderated community forum. After installing, every post you make becomes a new thread in your own forum at yourforum.disqus.com. To keep it from not being a mirror of the blog, registered readers can also post new threads. All blog comments are posted to the forum and vice versa. Readers can post new comments under their own Disqus profile or anonymously. Disqus commenting system adds threads, comment/user ratings, spam control, and user identities. The system can either replace all your comments (starting from nothing), or only be activated on new posts.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/30/disqus-joins-the-battle-for-your-blogs-comments/