I was reading yesterday on Techcrunch about a new web 2.0 player: Intense Debate. After the review and a first look at the site I already got a “WOW” feeling. Basically they start from the initial ideea of CoComment and push it a litlle bit further.

Key features:

• Centralized comments management for all your blogs. I am curious how well are they going to handle comment spamming and how much it will take untill the first bot dedicated to them will appear
• Allows you threaded comments and voting, something like Digg comments. Because this lacks from the major platforms and cannot be added to platforms like Blogger this will appeal to a lot of users moving them to change
• Easy account creation for commenters that will allow them to spread like wild fire in the blogosphere
• Commenter profiles

Minuses or were they might fail:

• You cannot track a conversation unless is on a blog that’s Intense Debate enabled
• They’d better be prepared for high traffic because if they are down, blogs that are using them will be down.
• Due to the fact that is an AJAX based system, the comments that your visitors make will not be available to the search engines. I think that this is a major downside and if I’ll remove it this will be one of the first reasons.
• Also due to Ajaxa, commenting oncertain browsers (like Opera Mini) is not possible

All in one I like it and I like it a lot and that’s why I am willing to give it a try here and on my romanian language blog.