You 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.
Social Media Comments: Premiering on Mashable Today
Today 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.
As 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.
Disqus are also making an announcement about the functionality: their post can be found on the Disqus blog.
Closing the Conversation Loop
The 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.
The 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.
Nonetheless, 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.
The Feature List: Supported Social Services
What can social media comments do? Here's a sampling of the services we work with:
Blogger - We locate posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts
Digg - We find submission(s) linking to the Mashable post and comments on that submission
Flickr - We find comments / text on Flickr linking to the Mashable post
FriendFeed - We find links to the Mashable post and also comments on those links
Movable Type - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts
Picasa - We find comments linking to the Mashable post
Twitter - We find Tweets linking to Mashable post
TypePad - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts
Vimeo - We find comments linking to the Mashable post
Wordpress - We find blog posts linking to the Mashable post and comments on those posts
YouTube - We find comments linking to the Mashable post
Bonus Feature: Syndicate your Mashable comments to Twitter!
Social Media Comments: General Release Soon
Mashable 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.