Alan Levine has a problem I've encountered as well. "It's how they handle comments. If someone comments on my flickr photo as it is rendered in Plaxo the comment goes inside Plaxo. This morning, I got a comment from a former colleague to my ACDC in Excel post (why is it the silly posts get the comments) and that comment is inside Plaxo (behind a login) not on my blog." It's a strategy these sites deploy in an attempt to increase lock-in. But because I sign up for many social network accounts, it's just an annoyance. For the record, I too do not respond to comments posted in this way - I'll respond to a Facebook comment, because the entire comment appears in my email. But not the sites that require that I login to even view the comment (that's basically most of them: Plaxo, Quechup, etc). (By the way, for the same reason, I never replicate Feedburner links in this newsletter - you go straight to the resource, without visiting advertising central on the way.)
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