Automattic Aquires Intense Debate
Matt of WordPress announced in his blog that Automattic, provider of WordPress blogs, has acquired Intense Debate, a portfolio company of the TechStars startup program out of Boulder, Colorado.
” For those of you who aren’t familiar with the product, Intense Debate supercharges the comment section of WordPress blogs and other sites with cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles …
Long-term, I think that comments are the most crucial interaction point for blogs, and an area that deserves a lot of investment and innovation. Comments really haven’t changed in a decade, and it’s time to spice things up a little … “
This enables WordPress users to introduce comment threading in their blogs, a long-wished feature of mine as well as a large no. of other wordpress user, and the official announcement has come as really great news. In my view, this is one of the best aquisitions done by wordpress, and a large step in its mission of becoming the preferred blogging platform of the entire internet community.
With this aquisition, Intense Debate has again gone into beta (invite-only mode) for sometime. This will not affect their existing users, but all new installs will require invite codes. Also, the users can look forward to a tighter integration of the IntenseDebate plugin with some of the other Automattic joints including Akismet and Gravatar.
Related Links:
1) Intense Debate Blog: .. We’re extremely pleased to announce that IntenseDebate will now be joining the Automattic team! ..
2) Ma.tt Says: .. Going forward, the plan is to keep Intense Debate available as a platform-agnostic independent service, much like Akismet ..
3) Hack WordPress: .. a major step towards improving how comments work within WordPress ..
4) Social Median: .. a WordPress.com commenting system would dwarf disqus ..
5) Technorati Reactions to story from VCMike’s Blog
6) VCMike’s Blog: .. emergence of comments as an important piece of the blogging equation ..
7) I Am Actually Not a Geek: .. Interesting to see where this leads ..
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I’ve been tracking Intense Debate for about 3 months, trying to decide if I should add it to my WordPress blog. I’ve been hesitant, because Intense Debate does not seem to play well with blog readers who have disabled Java. (which is a growing number of readers)
I hope Automattic fixes this problem!
i guess, with its integration with Automattic, this problem should be solved. They have a really great team in place.