I respectfully disagree with your comment. It is like saying Google acquired Omnisio, so the other video annotation sites won.
If anything Automatic will integrate the new commenting system and Pooof IntenseDebate will be on n times more blogs.
"My intuition" is Intense debate will see more comments than Disqus. But this does not mean Disqus is in trouble either. I use Disqus sometimes on enabled blogs and it is a great product.
Strongly agree. Converted our blog to Disqus a few days ago. First impression with this post, "shit --- can I convert?". Apparently not; they're private again. Expecting we'll be Intense Debate by WordPress 2.7 release.
YouTube already won video. Omnisio fits in well as a part of the larger whole. I didn't mean to say competitors should universally celebrate when others get acquired.
I think comments are something special, a developing arena that are the heart of "the conversation".
But my comment is probably naive in that there are so many unknowns that we can't really predict all that much. Intuition is like that though: you get a gut feeling that is the integral over all your experience. I think that matters in personal decision making quite a bit, but clearly isn't respected in an 8 word comment :)
"My intuition" is Intense debate will see more comments than Disqus. But this does not mean Disqus is in trouble either. I use Disqus sometimes on enabled blogs and it is a great product.