I launched my site 2 months back (subavatar.com) as a Commenter Avatar + Profile + Comment History + Karma service. Based on the initial feedback I dropped the Karma part and changed the domain name (from ipkarma.com to subavatar.com). making it like Gravatar with profile + comment tracking. Now I'm having thoughts about dropping the avatar part. What direction going forward do you suggest I take ?
I looked around the site, and thought it was confusing. I saw the avatar stuff, but I didn't see much about the comment tracking which is more interesting to me.<p>I like the idea of co-comment and integrating to work with any comment system, but ti seems to fail often.<p>Disqus and Intense Debate are cool, but I don't really want to have to switch over my blogs and other systems to just get comment tracking. I don't care as much about the karma of comments I guess.<p>So I would perhaps focus on that, because as a blogger and someone writting an app, I am unlikely to change the code of my systems to support your avatars, I would be happy if the comment tracking worked by default. Then I might point out the service to readers on my blog or make a link by the comments like "track these comments with subavatar"<p>On your page I would show example screen shots of the avatars and comment tracking in action on some site. I couldn't get a very good feel of what the avatars were like. Perhaps have a link to your own avatar to let people see what the whole profiles look like.<p>Good luck