Disqus

Disqus.com is an online service that offers a centralized discussion platform for websites. It was founded in May 2007 and operates under Big Head Labs Inc., 589 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA, CEO Daniel Ha. Disqus allows integration with Gravatar, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.

History

Disqus was in the summer of 2007, developed as a Y Combinator startup by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan, both students at the University of California, Davis. The spin-off took place on 30 October 2007.

2011 collected Disqus a 10 million U.S. $ risk capital of North Bridge Venture Partners and Union Square Venture Partners.

Business Model

Disqus operates as a freemium model: the Basisfunkion is free, whereas the Tools of site operators can be booked.

Dissemination

By June 2008, the service over 150,000 registered users and 17,000 communities including blogs and websites .. had since August 2010, the service has over 13 million registered users and 500,000 communities.

Among other things, the website of CNN and Wired magazine has included discussion thread. In Germany currently use among others the Axel Springer publishing house with his title of World Online, the online portal of the Westphalian Gazette ( newspaper group Ippen ), several online portals of the magazines of the publishing house Gruner Jahr ( eg National Geographic, Better Living ) and pearl the Disqus service one, in Switzerland, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Technology

The Disqus widget written in JavaScript and is based on a backend that is mainly written in Django.

Privacy Policy

The user visits a website that Disqus has integrated, and write a comment, it will be transferred to Disqus in the U.S. and therefore subject to the site's privacy rights. If the user has a Disqus account, then all the user comments on the sites that use Disqus, accessible. This has triggered discussions about privacy and the possibility of anonymous comments. However, Disqus also allows to use the comment function without registration as a "guest ". The the including website are then different ways to previous sighting of the commentary available.

Disqus allows the use even over an account with Yahoo. However, this requires access to contacts, status displays and updates the user. When using a Facebook profile considerably more information here but under a different name, profile photo, gender, networks, user ID, ​​and friends lists are not shared with other users, which, although referred to as " basic information " include.