piece of crap……straight to the deadpool

rammo
youd be surprised by the already existing user numbers. These guys are actually going really well already, for example for memory the hosted comment feature has a 6 figure user base (ie for blogs that don’t have comment support already).

Fuck it, I say. Fuck it. Im too lazy.

Garbage, shut it down

Thanks for the invite. I’m looking forward to giving it a try.

Cocomment solves a problem I’ve had for years - I drop about 3 comments on blogs everyday, but I had no way to easily manage/find/share this content. Enter Cocomment.

I wish there was an easy way to export my comments to a simple bookmark file. The “comment” can be the note part of my bookmark. This way, I can save my comments to my Google Bookmark or Delicious account.

I like the concept, but the video makes it feel like it’s such a hassle to use. Maybe because it’s just tooooo looong. How about a shorter video that shows the key features in less than a minute.

Wal
a fair call. It’s coComments video, not ours (ignoring the fact that I uploaded it to YouTube ) but I’m sure its an observation coComment will take on board.

i’ll give it a try

Thanks for the feedback! I hear you about the video … by trying to cover all of the new features, we may have made it too long. However, I think if you try the platform you will find it’s pretty simple, intuitive and easy to use.

Platform? I’m really sick of people using this word without understanding it. You can’t call every crappy app a platform. It’s just ridiculous. I’ve even heard one self-proclaimed entrepreneur referring to a “dating platform.” Come on! Platform is a software engineering term which refers to a set of components which can be used to build software. Misuse of this term epitomizes the hype around the whole Web 2.0 concept.

Great tool! I love the re-design. Video kind of long but is needed. The pesimist sounds to me to not have spent enough time in it, just a quick look and quick judgment. So far is the best tool I have seen to solve comment aggregation and shearing problem.
Lighten up!

CoComment is underrated. In fact this is a neat idea - done pretty well.
http://www.vinodlive.com/2007/.....ging-tips/

Agreed, coComment IS underrated, I’ve been using it for a while now and I’m happy as a button with it

I use CoComment. I think it’s a great service. Also check out Commentful - it’s pretty sweet.

Cheers,
Aidan
http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

Yes, a good idea, but would be better as a small and lite Firefox plug in, rather then a whole website.

Hello,
thanks for the invite Duncan!

All the best

I’m already sich of these web sites. They are all the same, they don’t add anything new. Good luck though!

Recently I realized I want to keep track of the comments I post and the conversations I participate in, with two purposes:

1. I want an easy way of being notified if someone contributes to a conversation I have contributed to as well.

2. Since my participation in online conversations are part of my online identity, I want to have them at my disposal. So I want to list, or at least link to, all the comments I posted throughout the web on my personal pages, such as my blog.

That’s all I want; nothing more, nothing less.

I started using three services in parallel, to see which one would serve my needs best: CoComment (the current version; 1), co.mments and del.icio.us (tagging every discussion I participated in with the same tag).

del.icio.us -

del.icio.us is a bookmarking service and not specifically purposed for tracking conversations, but I’m already using it and using their browser plugin it’s a very straightforward approach. The biggest problem is that it doesn’t enable me to extract or link to individual comments. All it can do for me is track conversations in a central location (by bookmarking these conversations), and I can export them by RSS. Not a perfect solution, but at least it’s simple and uncluttered.

co.mments -

co.mments is not that bad either. It’s fairly simple and transparent as well, and just as with del.icio.us the tracked conversations are exported over RSS. It also offers some means of getting notified of new contributions to the conversation, by adding a new RSS item linking to the conversation that has been contributed to. Two problems though:

- It’s not clear when these updates take place. It doesn’t happen with every new contribution, and for some conversations it doesn’t happen at all. Why? Shoot me.
- It clutters up the RSS feed. Since new items are added that link to the same conversation, no longer I have a clean feed of all my conversations at my disposal.

Just as del.icio.us, since it only provides links to tracked conversations, it doesn’t enable me to get a feed of my own contributions.

CoComment -

To be honest, CoComment annoyed me the most of all. It’s a very cluttered service which offers a zillion features, all very ’social’ and ‘web 2.0′, but I don’t give a damn as long as I cannot do what I want to do. I was hoping it would enable me to track my own contributions, and not only the conversations I participated in. Unfortunately, the service doesn’t succeed in that. At least not for me. All right, I can track conversations just as with the other services, but in a very (as compared to the former services) complicated way. You have to remember to enable the CoComment bookmarklet before you add your comment — if you forget you’re fucked. Then a bar is added to the comment field, which doesn’t make sense to me. A checkbox labeled “Linked to my nickname”, what on earth does that mean?? And what does “Blacklist as tawm” (tawm is my username) mean?? The RSS feeds are no less confusing:

- Why can I only get a feed of ALL comments, and not a feed with just MY comments?
- All contributers that are not members of CoComment are named ‘unknown’ though, while at least a name would be useful.
- For some conversations new comments don’t show up in my feed. Don’t know why. They do show up in my ‘conversations’ page on their website.

Really, the idea is nice, but with these problems it’s simply not good enough and thus not useful. Then today I read this post on TechCrunch about CoComment version 2. So I’m hoping to find some solutions to the problems I encountered with the service. Turns out the entire focus in the release is on even more groups-, friends-, exploration-, community- ‘yadda yadda whatever’-features. They even offer a sidebar now. Gosh, I couldn’t care less.

My apologies if this sounded a bit unfriendly, but I just don’t get it. Why all these zillion social features before it does one thing really well? I hope I’m completely wrong and all the problems I encountered are due to my own stupidity (in which case you need to improve your usability, because that means I’m the average user ;)).

Conclusion: I think i’ll ditch the two services specialized on comments and just go with del.icio.us. It does only half of what I need, but at least it does this in a simple and intuitive fashion.

If anyone can recommend me another service, that DOES serve my needs completely, let me know!

I just tried it out. Not loving it. I’d rather just be able to track comments via RSS. It’s just too cumbersome. Uninstalling it now.

I hope it’s faster than CoComment 1.0! That was the single thing holding me back from using it- I just got tired of waiting for cocomment to do its thing. The site would load, but my browser would hang for a few seconds waiting for the cocomment plugin to load. I’m willing to try out the next version, but if it’s not any faster, I’m afraid I’ll have to not use it once again.

I really like the firefox plugin. Esp. the ability to make notes/comments on all blogs.

so a blog based on comments you made on other blogs? hmmm

jeezzzzzus, is that 2hr vid the most boring thing you’ve ever watched?!?

Is a british accent required for these screencasts? I think thats item #17 in the Web 2.0 launch plan.

Thanx for the beta account. Trying to get a grip on the functionality, but it is not very intuitive…

Thanks for the free login. Greatly Appreciated.
Mike

Thanks.
So, I will try new version.