I wanted to report some positive results from using Tangler, a Web service that provides easy-to-manage discussion forums in real time anywhere on the Web.

You can even embed specific discussion threads on any Web page, including blog and profiles for MySpace and Facebook.

Visitors to your Web site can view on-going, real-time discussions wherever you want them to. They scroll through the discussions on the page, and if they want to post their own comment, a single button takes them to a sign-up window at Tangler, which takes a few seconds.

Users can also move to the discussion space you’ve set up at Tangler to house all your discussion topics. The look and feel of the Tangler discussion area can be customized to resemble the look and feel of your site (I did mine in about 10 minutes — no CSS required, though coding geeks can really go to town if’n they want).

I implemented Tangler yesterday on the promotional Web site for the film I’m writing and producing, Judas Kiss. Even though we have commenting enabled for our blogs and podcasts, using that feature requires an extra perceptual click, while the scrolling Tangler window feels more dynamic, more immediate, more like a conversation rather than just tacking up virtual Post-Its underneath a blog post.

The site is built in iWeb ’08 (because we’re trying to make a movie, not spend a lot of time coding a Web site), and adding Tangler just requires inserting an HTML snippet using iWeb’s Web Widgets feature. It’s so easy, you can even do it yourself, readers.

See the Share link at the upper right of the discussion window? Click on it and a little window pops up with the embed code you can paste into the HTML of your page, just like you do for YouTube. You can even embed in IM windows and emails. Easy peasy.

And the fact you can embed on any Web page means you’re not restricting by the fact iWeb’s built-in templates enable comments only on blog and podcast pages.

Check out Tangler and let me know what you think!