CoComment Screen Shots and Clarifications
by Michael Arrington on February 5, 2006

The CoComment guys were nice enough to send me an invitation to try the service after my post yesterday. I am now able to answer some of the questions I had in that post.

They support six big blogging platforms currently: Blogger, MSN Spaces, MySpace, TypePad, Wordpress and Xanga. I’ve tested this on two wordpress blogs and it works perfectly on that platform. They are working to add additonal platforms, and have requested help from the community.

The process for leaving a comment is fairly simple and does not require using a separate interface. You leave a comment as usual, and before submitting it you simply press the bookmarklet button. This saves the comment at CoComment.

The interface for viewing your comments (image below) is very nice and includes the ability to expand/collapse any set of comments.

And each user has a RSS and Atom feed of comments they’ve left (this is really useful).

While CoComment can do nothing with trackback comments, everything else is rock solid and this is going to be a very popular service.

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i think this site will be hot!

 

And with the computing power of the Swiss Telecom behind it, it should scale fairly well..

 

I would really like to see Yahoo! 360 support. I’ve been playing around with coComment and I love it (see my review).

 

I am absolutely thrilled about this idea. I’ve been hoping someone would pick it up and build a service for this for a long, long time now. I am especially excited about sharing the comments on your weblog — it’s the perfect way to create conversations across blogs.

I hope to see an invitation soon. I can’t wait :-)

 

Hi,
do you have a cocomment invitation code for me?
Thank you for your great website.

cheers,

andrea

 

andrea & jeroen, just apply on the cocomments site, they are sending invitation codes out promptly by email!

this is a truly great swiss innovation :-)

 

Install Brian’s script and coComment will work without the bookmarklet.
http://russell.supersized.org/.....land..html

 

Just signed up for this. Looks really cool so far. I got an invite about 30 minutes after signing up on there page.

 

This is a fantastic idea. Like Jeroen said, I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. Can’t wait to try it!
stacy

 

Beta Codes for CoComment:

0178-0956-4325-8035-8568
6322-1410-9291-0078-4569
2322-0632-7180-0332-8736
9060-7815-1426-4886-8780
5024-6668-1458-3080-1410
4045-7372-1250-2882-4793
4126-3356-1031-4599-1200
7313-5995-0342-2270-8603
2334-7533-8868-2005-3910
3911-9054-3083-7374-6184
6358-3185-3783-7505-8552
4247-5000-7241-8131-5517
2621-6898-0499-2641-6538

 

This is a pretty superb system, especially once you’ve added Greasemonkey. I’m looking forward to it encompassing: Radio Userland, HaloScan, non-Typepad Moveable Type and much more.

 

What about privacy concerns? Anyone?

 

I think this is a very useful service. Looking forward to trying it out.

 

coComment is a very good idea unless it’s limited to catch comments of ONLY coComment users!

The RSS I’ve got from coComment seems to show only additional comments made by coComment users which if this is actually the case would be a WEIGHTY restriction - what would better explain why they called it coComment (like co-tenant, or if you prefer like the FON idea which will be actually very nice when 80% Wifi users will subscribe to the service …)

Any clarification?

 

I’ve been one of the lucky one’s who’ve received an invite, and I have to say this service is quite impressive. While it only supports 6 blogging platforms at the moment, the implementation is very easy to use. I highly recommend checking out the service as it is released into open beta.

 

I’m using CoComment with Greasemonkey and it does all the work in the background… SWEET system

 

I’m very impressed as well. I’ve been blogging in various locations since 1999 (gulp!), and this is a very slick, very sweet implementation.

I’m sure that the Cocomment folks are working hard, but I’d like to see them implement support for:

Flickr (c’mon, it’s a natural)
Digg (Geek Central these days)
Metafilter (perhaps a lost cause)

 

It’s very cool. Well presented too. I suspect a lot of people will stop using del.icio.us to track their comments now ;-)

 

Congrats! You’re #2 on the ‘Most CoComments’ list!

 

It does look interesting. Just recieved my beta codes, will start testing it and hoping to write something soon.

 

In response to Ray’s post, yes at the moment it does look like it only works for coComment users. However, from reading the FAQs, they are working on a solution:

“There is a solution to that problem: blog integration. Just plug a small piece of code in your comment form and all comments from your site will be crawled by our servers even if your commenters aren’t cocomment members”

Looks like it’s coming soon …

 

I got an invite earlier today, and I love it so far. A great solution to the problem of keeping track of comment conversations.

 

Argh. I am, however, rather frustrated with the fact that currently, the “fix” for when you forget to click coComment BEFORE submitting your comment, *doesn’t work*! :(

 
 

Ok, here’s a problem. I keep forgetting to hit the bookmarklet before I hit submit…

 

There is a handy Greasemonkey-Script over at Solutionswatch. It makes the whole thing much easier.

 

Well, I got the invite so let’s see how this works. I’m testing their Share Box on my site too.

 

It is hard to remember to hit the bookmarklet… is there a Greasemonkey version for Safari or something similar…..

 

If anyone really wants an invite, don’t beg for one. These guys are kind enough to give you one five minutes after you mail them!

And there seems to be an internal error for me now.

 

I think coComment is one of the best niche Web 2.0 tools out there.

And yes, 50% of the reason I’m posting this comment is to try it out ;-)

 

Michael> here is what coComment answered me yesterday in their forum for the same issue; :cool:

___________
Re: Forgot to ckick the coComment button

Yes, that’s both true. The functionality did not work as intended and thus was not yet in the current release. It should be there early next week. This will also include a method to allow you to manually enter a comment (select the comment in the blog page and read it to cocomment).

 

Only 50%?

This application could completely change the way I use blogs and improve the whole ‘conversational’ aspect of blogs.

I wonder if us blog runners can ‘automatically turn on’ coComment on our blogs?

 

I think it’s a great idea, but if it’s not going to work for 100% of blogs (and chances are, it isn’t, ever) it becomes a bit pointless :(

There’s hope for when it’s integrated in most major blogging platforms and you don’t have to think of using the bookmarklet anymore, but that’s years away before every WP/MP/whatever install supports it.

 

The greasemonkey script makes things a whole lot easier, Mike. And from what I can tell, it looks as though the CoComment guys want to build their service into the commenting features of all the major blogging platforms, so that the indexing happens automatically.

 

I went to the coComment web site and entered my email address and had my invite almost immediately. The web site doesn’t really point this out but others who have reported this are correct.

I am also using the service to track this comment. Works great from Firefox.

 

Folks following this thread might like to check out GoJot.com, a project of mine. It allows you to comment on any web page, even if that page doesn’t have commenting features. It also collects a user’s comments into a lightweight blog. It sports social features, whereby you can watch or ignore select GoJot users. Cute and lightweight.

And it has a cool name ;-)

 

With Rob Bazinet, seconded. It takes far less time just to sign up on the site than to waste away hoping for bloggers to post invite codes. Mine arrived within half an hour, if I recall correctly.

 

This is very useful and a very cool idea. Thanks for introducing me ;D

 

From the pictures the Scobleizer offered us from his first look at CoComment in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, I thought I had to give it a try.

So I contacted them and got my invite

SERGE
http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com

 

Oops forgot to hit the ‘bookmarklet’ icon befor submitting my post.
Let’s give it another try.
From the pictures the Scobleizer offered us from his first look at CoComment in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, I thought I had to give it a try.

So I contacted them and got my invite

SERGE
http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com

 

Cocomment is really a nice concept. No doubt that it’s going to be very popular when it gets out of beta. I’m happy I’ve received an invite yesterday :D so I can already start using it. Very easy to understand how to use it, etc. Really good stuff ;)

 

Could anyone send me an invite?

 
 

What a great concept, looking forward to getting my invitation code and exploring the features.

———————
::All About N91::
N91.wordontheblog.com
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to all the people longing for coComment access codes seems there was a short halt cause they are introducing more servers on the system, so soon, if its not ready yet, there will me more codes around. Just read that in the TeamBlog of the coComment site http://www.cocomment.com

 

If anyone’s after an invite, I have some here:
http://www.joshteeters.org/blo.....ite-codes/

There’s a total of 5, 1 of which I know has been used.

They may ALL be used, but only 1 person has remarked about using one.. so if you want to give them a whirl, have at it.

 

I begin to love on this little blue “CO” button on my firefox. I believe it’s a useful tool to advance the Internet comment quality, especially for the comment poster who share their comment on their own blog. A little comment on it, a more widely blog URL supported ability would make it a better one. Comments even on blogger sometimes may not support while the blogger set the comment to be post on a new opening window. How about make an incompatible blog site submit page on coComment? And as I know, the system only collect the comments from coComment members up to NOW. That means more widely serve capability is urgent for their beta server. Well, after all, it’s absolute an amazing web2.0 service and pray for its being more and more successful.

 

If only there was a way to automate the process, I keep forgetting to use the bookmarklet as well.

 

PS I wonder how Blunkett would feel about the fact that this same person explained how she understood this way of using words by saying its the kind of thing Haider does in Austria

 
 

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