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YouTube Adds Audio Preview To Comments
7:10AM Adam Pash | In what’s presumably an attempt to curb the comment cesspool at YouTube, the popular video sharing site has added an Audio Preview button to the comment section. Inspired by web comic xkcd, the positive effect of the audio preview seems questionable. Until audio previews prove their efficacy, we’ll stick with the previously mentioned YouTube Comment Snob extension, thankyouverymuch. [via] More »
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BackType Tracks Your Comments or Others’ Across Blogs
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Free web service BackType aggregates all the comments you make on various blogs and web sites. The site uses the URLs entered in commenter forms or in the posts themselves to track a person’s musings, or can combine URLs under a single account URL. It’s a great tool for those who want to catch up on discussions they left behind, but the site also provides a search engine of its indexed comments and links to see another social-browser’s comments. This type of URL tracking would normally leave the door open for comment impersonators, so BackType offers a moderation option to have you approve any comments posted under your name. BackType is a free service, requires a sign-up to use. BackType [via Download Squad] More »
YouTube Comment Snob Filters Stupid Comments
4:00AM Adam Pash | Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension YouTube Comment Snob filters comments on YouTube videos that don’t meet your snobbish standards. It does so using a combination of criteria, like a user-defined threshold of spelling errors (using Firefox’s spell-checker), excessive punctuation, and excessive capitalisation. You can enable or disable any of the filter options if you don’t mind capital letters, for example, and you can view any hidden comment by simply clicking Show. It’s a pretty saucy little extension, but now it’s hard not to want a full-on Internet Comment Snob. YouTube Comment Snob [Firefox Add-ons] More »
