Gawker Platform Demo Review

Gawker Media, publisher of sites such as Valleywag and Gizmodo, presented their new blogging platform at the September NY Tech Meetup last night. The discussion started by explaining how they changed their comment status over the past couple of years, moving from no comments, to open comments, to logged in comments.

The discussion focused around their new platform which begins roll-out this Friday. Here is what I could put together from the demo:

• a user who comments on a Gawker blog will have a page with the ability to publish comments and content to it - some content might get promoted to the home page
• You can "friend" another commenter
• I understand this has something to do with the way Facebook handles friends
• There will be user feeds for each user that you can subscribe to

Here is the video from the demo: