Mashable, Disqus [YC S07] and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments

This is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, it seems the people behind it were more concerned with technically getting it to work, than making it work in a useful way. While I think it's a great technical achievement to aggregate comments across all of those social networks, displaying them all as a 500+ item list, in no particular order, unthreaded, and with no options to filter, sort, or group, renders this feature almost completely useless.

It seems I'm being provided this information just for the sake of more information. What is the point of seeing that so-and-so tweeted the exact same thing that such-and-such did? Is it just to show me some active twitter usernames (with no avatars)? Apparently not, because I cannot even click through to twitter profiles using this.

I'm still amazed that there is no service where I say "here is a URL" and they say: "It's been Dugg x times, here are the comments on Digg, Redditted y times, here are the comments. FF'd z times, here are the comments..." and that the "best" commenting system, to date, is Disqus.

Interesting.

What I think would be even cooler is if disqus went and located all the places that an article has been posted up, and gathered the comments from there (perhaps in a read-only variant, so you have to log in to the sub-site to read the comments).

For instance, I'd love to automatically include HN comment son my blog posts, rather than just including a link to HN.

So it's an updated incarnation of trackback. Well done.

Cool!