Switzerland based CoComment has developed a cult-like following just a few weeks after its launch. Founders Nicolas Dengler and Marco Chong, as well as investor Jan Reinhart, visited silicon valley last week to talk to potential partners, San Hill Road investors and, well, at least one blogger.
CoComment allows users to track comments they’ve left on blogs in one centralized place. In effect, CoComment keeps a blog of your distributed comments. They now boast up to 100,000 daily visitors to the site – again, after just a few weeks of being live. For more on cocomment, see my earlier reviews here and here in February.
The company is a project funded by Swisscom Innovations, and all of the founding team originally worked at Swisscom.
Nicolas, Marco and Jan talked about some of the upcoming features they will be launching as well. They have received some recent criticism because users can only track comments from blog posts that they have actually commented on, and only comments left by other cocomment users are shown. New competitor Co.mments, which I wrote about here, goes a step further and allows users to track all comments on any blog post by simply clicking a bookmarket. CoComment says they’ll have similar features very soon. CoComment has other features in the pipeline as well, which will be announced soon.
I just signed up for co.mments and I’m very happy. Any idea what functionality is coming up that would make me switch? Where ’s the value add?
That’s great. The Joker.com DNS outages really hurt, though. I had to remove them from my blog.
Looks like a pretty cool site. What I’m curious to know is how they plan to make money.
I don’t understand all these companies seeking investors when the best revenue stream they can come up with is adsense.
Mike, I agree. CoComment is really useful and I am looking forward to the new feature. The recent outages are somewhat of a concern though, however I am sure its part of the growing pains.
I am curious of their business model though. I think if they add a set of really useful features, I feel positive that can sell some of the premium features for a few dollars a month, as the service has developed a strong critical mass of users and atleast a part of them may convert.
How they will money you say? Like everyone else who didn’t learn their lesson of 2000 dotcom bubble, they’ll show google ads. Pretty soon we’ll have sites showing google ads within other google ads.
CoComments has not worked for me even (could not add comments most of the time and once I did add them, I was not able to see them, lol) though I really wanted it to work. It was very buggy from the beginning and the number of blog systems it supports is ridicolous. I am using co.mments now and I am very happy with it. It just works and seems to support almost every blog system out there!
I have foud some great people/blogs through cocomment! Here is some feature-its which I’m sure cocomment has in queue…
1) Not able to search for a particular web site on cocomment.
2) Not able to open a new tab when clicking a outbound link from cocomment.
3) Some comments on cocomment do not have outbound links at all.
4) Conversation recommendations.
5) Other user recommendations.
I love coComment. Commenting using it now.
Michael
I signed up with CoComment when they launched.
Some blogs I was not able to comment on.
In the past week, I was not able to log on many times so I gave a shot to co.mment.
Right now CoComment works (I just tried).
I used both for this post.
In the few days that I have used co.mment I have to say it is much more user friendly.
Serge
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Before launching a service, and defining its name, it is wise to do some research on the meaning of your service name in the major languages:
cocomment sounds like “crapment” in Portuguese, the third most spoken language in the western world.
If coComment add the functionality of showing ‘all’ comments, it will make a good product better.
Cocommenting here and now!
Cocommenting here and now!