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Thursday Thoughts: Going Mainstream Ain’t Easy – Installing Disqus Is

Early Adopters:

Last night’s post on the growing rift between early adopters and mainstream users lingered through the night, but picked up quite some steam in the morning with a great discussion in the comments here, on FriendFeed and on Robert Scoble’s blog post about Early Adopter Angst (also in response to Alexander van Elsas’ post about the Tech Elite – funny sidenote: Robert got both Alexander’s and my name wrong…).

In his blog post, Robert says:

Early adopters DO matter. Anyone who says that they don’t needs to go back to business school.

This is why I follow 20,000 Twitterers. I want to study what early adopters are doing and thinking. Twitter is the best place — by far — to do that.

I don’t disagree there, but what I did wonder about in my original post was if a lot of the new Web 2.0 services aren’t catering exclusively to early adopters and only solve the problems of early adopters, thereby pricing themselves out of a mainstream market.

Disqus:

I finally took the plunge and installed Disqus here for comments. Setting it up took literally five minutes.

I hear good things about their customer service and as more and more people start switching to it, it is going to make commenting easier for a lot more people.

A wise choice

I think you (and perhaps more importantly, your 'early adopter' readers) will enjoy using Disqus.

I will be interested to see whether you discern any increase in comments.

Glad to see you've installed Disqus. I think it's kinda funny that the cranky one of the bunch was the first to install and promote it LOL

I feel that Disqus has enhanced the conversations, and their customer service is fantastic (though I don't know what will happen when they scale). The only drawback I see is that it is presently incompatible with my older mobile phone.

I'm happy with it so far – just trying out the reply by email now

Yeah, mobile support kind of sucks right now. It's pretty high on the priority list.

And listening to what bloggers want… that always scales.

You've got me thinking about it …. again

Good post Frederac, I mean Frederic (darn these typo's)

Congrats on getting Disqus installed! Just as a FYI, I am leaving this comment from within Google Reader, where I saw your article as one of Corvida's shared items, using Paul Arterburn's excellent gReader Firefox plugin.
Ain't technology grand?

Looking forward to reading about your mobile plans on the disqus blog when they happen, Daniel. I'm interested to know what you guys' thoughts are on the subject.

im gladly to hear coming for you,..

Thanks for these nice information and looking for more …

best of luck

I totaly agree with your point here! I admire the stuff you post and the quality information you offer in your blog! Keep up the awesome work.

Great post! I've bookmarked your blog. Hope we can swap links.

Why can't I open your rss feed? No post is showing.

Best Regards!

Ginj

I love Disqus, even with the potential for spam and the one or two caveats it is still a great system.

lool

great

thank you

Disqus is ok. I encourage you to use it.

Great info. I've added you to my RSS Reader. Check out my Website: Chicago Web Design

A wise choice indeed! I have been hearing about this plug in from quite a long time, whatever I heard is positive! Just stick with it!

Anyone else think the same? Got me thinking after reading this, thx man.

Congratulation !
Looks a lot like wordpress, Which I guess is a good thing since that has become the gold standard in blogging.