IntenseDebate

Intense Debate can be used to comment on blogs, it’s a fully functional system that can be incorporated into Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress fairly easily. The system offers bloggers the ability to easily track and monitor comments from a single location. There are many advanced features included in the system, including comment analysis tools, comment aggregation, reputation tools and threading to group similar comments together. Intense Debate makes it easy for blog readers to network by allowing them to build reputations. It’s also possible to link profiles together, syndicate comments and also make friends. It’s been designed to be a miniature blogging system that makes sure that any commenter is responsible for all of their comments on various blogs. Intense debate started as a public beta and was released to the public in 2007. The application has since been sold to Automattic in September 2008. Competitors to Intense Debate includes Tangler, SezWho and JS Kit. Intense debate was founded in December 2006; however the website itself wasn’t actually released until 2007. The website was acquired by Automattic in 23rd September 2008. Intense Debate can be compared to many other blogging platforms, however unlike these this platform is designed just for commenting. It is a useful way of linking together comments which means that all commenter will be held accountable for their comments on various blogs over the internet. Intense Debate is a very easy platform to use; it has a nice clean design that’s really easy to use. Once you are signed into your account then you won’t have a problem using the service to control blog comments. When you sign up you will be given the option of creating an account for commenting, or for building into your blog. As soon as you sign into your account you will then see your dashboard. This contains lots of useful information about your account and also has links to various features. It also contains statistics about your blogs and comments. There’s also a link to install intense debate on your own blog. Signing up for an account is very easy; simply click on the large signup button on the homepage. You can then fill out the registration form. You will need to enter a username, email, and also choose a password. There is then an option to create an account for commenting, or to incorporate with your own blog. Intense Debate is completely free for everyone to use. There are no paid subscriptions available. Signing up for an account is free and even choosing to incorporate it in your blog does not cost any money. Intense Debate is a very useful tool that can be used to incorporate into blogs to encourage debates. The commenting systems on some blogs is lacking and this is designed to make it much more interesting. Also everyone comments are available in one place regardless of which sites they were left on. Intense Debate is useful for any blogger who wants to have more control over his comments.