Now Post Comments on WordPress.com Using ‘WordPress, Twitter and Facebook’ Accounts

Following in the footsteps of commenting system platforms Echo, Disqus and Intense Debate, WordPress.com has launched WordPress, Twitter and Facebook authorization and identity systems to leave comments on their bloggin service.

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Recommendations… where would we be without them? Imagine having to make every single decision in your life without any guidance whatsoever—what you should wear, eat, who you should date. As humans, it seems pretty obvious that we just can’t be trusted to make most if not all decisions on our own. This fact gave birth to a whole recommendation content industry and a bunch of tools to power our technologically enhanced consumption. 

It’s not surprising, then, that it’s something that every third startup you see is doing something with recommendations. It seems to follow growth in data available. Twitter has an API and Mr. Tweet launched to recommend people for you to follow. Amazon has an API, so Hunch recommends books and movies.  People check-in to Foursquare, so people work on recommending where you should eat.

Then, there’s the whole “ask your friends” space. Not only is this something people do on Twitter and Facebook all the time, but PeerPong, Aardvark, and others have all tried to figure out slick ways to capture social recommendations.

Yet, at the end of the day, it’s not clear to me that technology is really solving the problem nearly as much as plain old experts and content. Technology was supposed to be the great equalizer, democratizing recommendations and killing off the need for Zagats, critics, etc — yet I find that solutions that critics take into considerations often to be the most useful. Sure, the definition of a critic has widened—like a music or food blogger—but getting recommendations from people with an intense and nearly fulltime focus on an area is hard to replace, and effective to productize.

Examples? How about HypeMachine aggregating music blogs? Movies? How many people aim to watch the AFI 100? In the last few weeks, and I know I’ve talked about this company a lot, I’ve gotten more recommendations converted to actual meals from Dinevore from critics lists than I ever had from Yelp or any other service. They have critics lists that I want to check off because I have a high degree of confidence that I’ll get some good meals out of them versus just eating where my friends eat. 

I think the big issue is that context is important — why do I want a particular recommendation at any given time and how much info do you have about my situation? Am I looking for a mystery book? A happy hour bar with a chill atmosphere? Do I even know what the heck I want and can I be trusted to give you enough data in the request?

The critics picks, however, are all about aspiration—we want to be associated with the kinds of places that authorities say are the best. Or, maybe authorities really do know what they’re talking about? Maybe it’s the water cooler effect — that I get a lot more socially out of watching the movies that lots of other people have seen or going to Andrew Knowlton’s Top 25 Brooklyn restaurants that others are also undoubtedly aware of.  

What do you think? Where do you tend to get your best recommendations from?

This post originally appeared at This is going to be BIG... and is republished here with permission.

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Is This Post An Advertisement?

How many advertisements do you see every day? The average person reportedly is exposed to hundreds or even thousands of commercial messages daily.

But what about advertorials, sponsored content, or marketing campaigns that use content as their main tool?

Can you tell if what you're reading was created to sell you something?

As more and more companies adopt content as a selling point -- in the digital-deal corner, see Groupon and Thrillist, whose alternately savvy and tongue-in-cheek tone is expressly geared to open your wallet -- what we read will be shaped by what they have to sell. And it's a trend media companies are warming to, as well: witness Business Insider's launch of a flash-sale service, Pipeline.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social services have increased the ways brands create content that seems as though it is not an ad. But while marketers talk about "brand loyalty" and "engagement" as the new metrics, those are only in service of the old metric: cash. Companies hope that when we're finished playing their games, reading their helpful, friendly websites on specialty subjects, and participating in their social charity causes, we buy their stuff.

We're exploring the intersection of content and marketing at IGNITION, our conference on the Future of Media, taking place Dec. 2-3 in New York. For smart discussion on media business models, click right up and get your ticket. We've got some great speakers on this topic, including Federated Media's COO Deanna Brown, and Tina Sharkey, who heads up Johnson and Johnson-owned BabyCenter.

Their companies demonstrate how content marketing is not necessarily a disingenuous PR tool, but rather a strategy used in a variety of ways. Federated Media employs what it calls "conversational media" with the stated goal of supporting independent website authors. BabyCenter is a much-awarded website on all things infant. It highlights the blurring of the line between content and marketing.

Another way to parse the issue is to observe the convergence of media and e-commerce. Thrillist's Ben Lerer is speaking at IGNITION around this topic, as is LivingSocial's Tim O'Shaughnessy. In fact, the entire agenda is geared to exploring content.  (Did I mention we're still selling tickets?)

Ultimately, if what you're reading is both content and advertising, do you even care? If it's entertaining and informative, does who wrote it and why matter to you?

Is this an article or an ad?

You're cordially invited to come and continue the discussion at IGNITION.

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