Comments. Comments on blogs, product reviews (they are just specialized comments on a product), articles...
What would help:
Let me come back
- Have subscription buttons for blog comments so I can leave a comment and see when someone posts after me.
- Let me bookmark particularly good comments - not just the article, but the comment
More user information
- Some comment systems allow for a URL for the commentor. Why just 1? Why not their delicious tags & flickr photos & blog &...
Or, maybe we need a single united URL that contains various link for people. Sure this could be done by each person on their website - but it isn't and the bar should be lower. - More types of comments: audio & video as well as text & links.
Integration across sites
- Integration blog comments & twitter
(So I can tweet comments or get responses via twitter)
Or integration across multiple websites in general - To take it a step further: why can't I take any piece of information on the web or my computer or other peoples' computer and hook it to a notification system.
-And- such a system should know where I am (so how to contact me: SMS text message, tweet, email)
-And- the system should have smart filtering: so it can help in the signal to noise ratio - When a co-worker modifies a document that we're working on, text my mobile or email me
- When one of my favorite writers writes a new article or blog post, scan the text and notify me if I'll be interested in the content
Some work happening in the comment space
- FriendFeed
- DisQus
- Facebook (the wall - that integrates different types of things - and the new wall that allows for commenting on status, photos, notes)
- Google Commenting on Search results
(only testing right now) - JS-Kit
