I get what you’re saying about comments – there’s a part of me that thinks that should be on the podcast creator’s site anyway. I’m really torn on that, because my experience with Youtube comments, et all is an exercise in banality, but media measurement people and advertisers seem to love them even though they’re useless content-wise.

I think you’re right to an extent about auto-tweets, but that sharing functionality is part of what users love about services like Grooveshark and Pandora (not saying that’s your competition, but they both deal with audio online). If I like a podcast – it only makes sense for me to be able to one-click it while I’m adding it to my Huffduffer and tweet it out or send to Facebook with a link to my post and my comments. From a user experience perspective, allowing people to take their awesome recommendations to where they are is valuable for them and for the site.

Now, I know with RSS, there’s lots a million ways to make it so that every time I changed the feed, it tweeted or popped it into Facebook somehow. However, most people are simply not that savvy (or are just lazy) and need the buttons there and maybe even widgets in the future.

In some ways, it goes down to what your goal is for the project – and don’t take any of my comments as anything but (possibly) constructive (or ignore my idiotic rantings) because you’ve done a great job.

It’s funny that you mention comments. There was a commenting system on Huffduffer for a while but it was hardly ever being used. In retrospect, that make sense. The moment at which you’d want to comment on something (i.e. when you’re listening to something) is unlikely to be when you’re actually on the website; the killer app for Huffduffer is commuting, jogging, travelling, etc.

I’ll see about adding Twitter integration but I’m wary of adding to the deluge of auto-generated tweets that are already clogging up twitter streams.