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Backtype, known for its fast-growing comment-aggregation service, announced the availability of a new BackType Connect plugin for standalone WordPress blogs today. The plugin uses the newly-updated Connect API to integrate comments from a variety of different sources around the internet directly in to the WordPress comment system. Supported sources include Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed, Reddit, other blogs, and of course, Hacker News (since Backtype is a YCombinator startup). Installation is straightforward and comment import happens quickly.

Announced alongside BackType Connect today, BackTweets is a fresh new take on a Twitter search engine: It un-shortens and catalogs URLs sent via Twitter.  We believe that, even though BackTweets was created to fill a piece of BackType Connect's total conversation search offering, it will also become an important player by itself and we are glad to see it has gotten its own clean look.

The conference is over now and so here's a summary of my blog output from it. I was pumping out the real-time notes over the last 3 days! I didn't have much time for analysis - my brain was full to the brim just absorbing everything. I intend to dive into the details over the next week or two. Here are the posts I wrote during the conference:

07: Cautious Optimism and Cynical Buzz (also published on ZDNet)
07: Discussion: Prosumer Media Mena Trott, Mark Fletcher, Rich Skrenta
07: Conversation: Sergey Brin of Google
07: Search engine stats: Jim Lanzone from Ask.com
07: Zimbra UI Minute
07: 3D Web Services
07: The Alumni Report Joe Kraus , Kim Polese
07: Google RSS Reader announced at Web 2.0
06: A Conversation with AOL CEO Jonathan Miller
06: Discussion: Open vs. Closed Models
06: Bubble or Bubble-let?
06: Mary Meeker talk
06: Yahoo CEO Terry Semel conversation
06: ZDNet post on the Terry Semel conversation
06: Flurry of Web 2.0 Business Activity
05: Web 2.0 Conference, first day impressions - ZDNet
05: Web 2.0 Conference coverage notes - Wed afternoon
05: Barry Diller conversation
05: Web 2.0 Conference Introduction
05: Web 2.0 Conference: Yahoo - What's New in the Search Ecosystem: Users, Publishers, and Advertisers
05: Web 2.0 Conference: Ad Models: A New Approach to Marketing?

Plus I took paper notes for the following, which I will turn into blog posts at some point:

05: Open Source Infrastructure workshop
05: Mash-ups 2.0: Where's the Business Model? workshop