coComment – Centralized comment tracking for the blogosphere
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The latest buzz in the blogosphere yesterday revolved around a new service by the name of coComment.
coComment is the only service that allows you to enjoy the full potential of blog comments on the web. Before coComment, the blogosphere was not a global conversation, but tons of fragmented, hard to follow, and untrackable discussions.
Using coComment, you can now keep track of what you have been commenting on, display your comments on your blog, and see what is new in the discussions you are participating in (if other users are also on coComment).
I was fortunate enough to find an invite to the beta service in my inbox yesterday morning. I spent a good deal of the day fooling around with system and realized that a) this service does exactly what it claims to do, and b) allows for more robust comment conversations. Despite the fact that the service is beta, the interface and support is top notch.
The idea is simple. Visit the coComment homepage, submit your email for an invite, sit tight until said invite arrives, then register and install the coComment bookmarklet. Anytime you plan on submitting a comment to Wordpress, TypePad, MySpace, Xanga, Blogger, or MSN Spaces, simply click the coComment bookmarklet. Doing so will inform coComment that you are leaving a comment and wish for the service to begin tracking. Greasemonkey users will appreciate the coComment userscript which alleviates the process of having to click on a browser bookmarklet.
Check the service out for yourself. You might find yourself spending more time engaging with other readers on your favorite weblogs.
The rest of the web is buzzing:
// coComment: Tracking your blog comments
// Comment tracking with coComment
// coComment
// Track your comments, no matter where you make them
Nice write up, just saw you posted mine, thanks. Wonder why I didn’t get a trackback.
you might want to check with wordpress.com regarding trackback issues. cocomment is definitely going to change the way readers interact on the net.
I just got my invite and am out prowling around giving it a whirl. It’s very interesting and like you said, it works as promised which is refreshing.
What I like is that I’m already discovering blogs (such as this one) that I most likely would not have otherwise. It’s going to be fun to watch this evolve.
chapman,
i couldn’t agree more. cocomment offers more than just a comment tracking service. it’s also – in my opinion – a blog discovery tool. what better way to discover new blogs of interest than reading through the comments of readers first.
I’m all set and good to go, can’t wait to give it a proper spin. It looks truly promising to say the least!
well, how do we get invites?
I’d shure like to track this particular comment ;-)
Invites are easy to get … a couple of hours passed before I got mine after signing up on coComment website, so sign up and wait for a couple of house.
I am really liking coComment so far. Integration tools are allegedly in the works and I like the simple design … a web 2.doh application that is actually useful.
There’s things I have just found out yesterday, like the most popular blogs. Guess whos close to Scoble ;-)
[...] Hot on the heals of CoComment, Co.mment aims to provide a similar centralized commenting system. [...]
[...] It has been about 5 months since any news was released concerning the comment tracking service coComment. During the announcement downtime, coComment developers have been hard at work developing the most requested features by users and critics alike. Today, coComment will unveil its fresh new face with a slew of new feature worth noting for anyone interested in tracking comments throughout the blogosphere. A few of the more requested features which have been rolled into the service can be found below: [...]