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"Go on, Tweet this post.  Or share it on FriendFeed.  Or post about it on Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad or WordPress blogs.  Or link to it from a Flickr comment.  Or comment on the story on Digg.  Or add a comment linking to this post from YouTube, Vimeo or Picasa.  \nYou can talk about this post on almost every major social service (with more being added all the time) and we'll include these comments below the post.  That's the magic of a new feature we're implementing on Mashable: Social Media Comments.\nSocial Media Comments: Premiering on Mashable Today\nToday Mashable is announcing an exclusive partnership with the blog comment service Disqus with regard to their integration of the comment aggregation service UberVU.  For the next two weeks, you'll be able to test Disqus-powered social media comments exclusively on Mashable, getting a glimpse at what both companies think is the future of blog comments.  Of course we also have to thank UberVU for powering this comment aggregation feature.\nAs an extra special feature, Disqus users posting comments to Mashable can now syndicate their comments to Twitter - simply go to your Disqus account settings and enable Twitter.\nDisqus are also making an announcement about the functionality: their post can be found on the Disqus blog.\nClosing the Conversation Loop\n\n\nThe problem: the conversation is distributed.  Mashable posts are shared on scores of social media sites, and yet all those conversations are scattered around the web, with no way to pull them all together in one place.  Social media comments aim to fix that.  \nThe feature is of course very new, and there's much more that could be done with this novel concept: replying to 3rd party comments on Mashable and having your reply posted back to the 3rd party site, for instance.  We're also still working on adding your Twitter avatars.  It's by no means perfect yet: there are lots of tweaks we're still working on, and I'm sure you can name many more features you'd like to see.  \nNonetheless, there's no doubt that social media comments are a massive step forward, and we're proud that Disqus, UberVU and Mashable are the pioneers of this new functionality.\nThe Feature List: Supported Social Services\n\n\nWhat can social media comments do?  Here's a sampling of the services we work with:\nBlogger - We locate posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts\nDigg - We find submission(s) linking to the Mashable post and comments on that submission\nFlickr - We find comments / text on Flickr linking to the Mashable post\nFriendFeed - We find links to the Mashable post and also comments on those links\nMovable Type - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts\nPicasa - We find comments linking to the Mashable post\nTwitter - We find Tweets linking to Mashable post\nTypePad - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts\nVimeo - We find comments linking to the Mashable post\nWordpress - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts\nYouTube - We find comments linking to the Mashable post\nBonus Feature: Syndicate your Mashable comments to Twitter!\nSocial Media Comments: General Release Soon\nMashable comments also now include the standard features of Disqus: a single commenting profile across multiple blogs, the ability to post your comments to your Facebook profile and the option to read and respond to conversation threads via email.  If you're using Disqus on your blog today, you'll get to use social media comments as soon as the feature enters general release.\nSo go ahead: Tweet this post, blog it, Digg it and more!  Let's give social media comments their first road test!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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