Typepad is about to nail Blogger's coffin shut by introducing widgets. These widgets extend the conversation in blogs by allowing people to provide more supporting context to their blog presence. Some of them are not so helpful, but prove the point. It's now fiendishly simple to provide easy interfaces to allow people to place information in context.
I'm looking forward to Technorati integration, seeing what they have in mind for Pandora , and some of the other tools. What's missing here is coherent conversation tracking. Some Megite-like service (or even Megite itself) that tracks the conversation automatically for a post. If tech.memeorandum can dig around for posts that link to other posts - why oh why can't I?
How about current cross references shown? Or current promotion sites carrying the post "This post currently carried on: Google News, Tech.memeorandum ... etc." How about giving people the ability to show links and relevance in comments? How about threaded conversations?
According to techcrunch:
But the true novelty is that (at last!) Typepad decided to open their APIs for the community to build new widgets and enlarge the choice of services and items that will be available to Typepad blog users.There you go! Coders, see Jim's wish list and make it happen!
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