Thanks!
After less than 2 weeks of operating as a closed Beta, the coComment service is now fully open! First of all, thanks to the entire coComment user community - your positive feedback has been overwhelming, and your active collaboration with the development team in helping us improve the service has been fantastic.
What we’ve been working on
As we’ve communicated before, the past couple of weeks were intended to be a very “soft” launch to test the service stability and scalability, and to get some initial feedback from the closed user group. Specifically, over the past 2 weeks, we have:
- Stabilized the core service and considerably improved scalability
- Responded to user feedback and addressed your desire to add support for a wider range of blogging platforms (we’re still working on more!)
- Improved the coComment bookmarklet and added the ability to enter your comments into your coComment account after you’ve already submitted it on the blog site. (In other words, tried to address the fact that a lot of people - including us - forget to hit the coComment button before submitting comments).
What’s next
We’re still working really hard to add new features and respond to all your feedback - and this a process we don’t ever intend to stop. Top priorities right now are:
- Both a browser extension and blog integration to eliminate altogether the need to click on the bookmarklet before submitting comments.
- Enabling you to track all of your conversations in their entirety - not just conversations with other coCommenters.
- Allowing you to tag conversations, in order that you can more efficiently find, organize, and structure your conversations.
- Enabling you to follow not only your conversations, but other conversations on topics of interest to you.
- Allowing you share conversations you’re tracking with other people.
- An anonymity function, so you will not be identifiable in any way as the source of comments you want to keep anonymous
- … and some other cool stuff we’d rather keep in “stealth mode” for now…
We’ll keep you informed of new developments, and in the meantime, we encourage more feedback and participation! Thanks for helping us make coComment a useful service for everyone!
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February 17th, 2006 at 18:02
Great, but while Movable Type support was working on my site (http://paul.kedrosky.com), it has now stopped. What’s up?
February 17th, 2006 at 20:19
Congrats!
February 17th, 2006 at 20:48
Congrats!
I like the evolutions
February 17th, 2006 at 23:31
coComment abre sus puertas!
No se necesita mas tener un codigo de invitacion para poder acceder a los servicios de coComment, visita su web y abre una cuenta para iniciar la conversacion global a traves de los comentarios en los blogs!
February 18th, 2006 at 02:09
Congrats!!! Great work ^^
February 18th, 2006 at 02:18
CoComment Open!
Per gli anziosi che come me hanno aspettato anche un giorno per l’invito a CoComment.. vi communico che cocomment è ufficialmente aperto ^^!!!Quindi ora basta la registrazione e si parte :)Bene sono partiti alla grande, quindi un gran in b…
February 18th, 2006 at 11:36
Can you check the movable type support again, pkedrosky. We had a bug last night which messed up our blog detection routine. I should be better now.
February 18th, 2006 at 11:39
Yep there is a bug … some Typepad blogs do not supporte the cocomment synchronisation.
February 18th, 2006 at 17:21
Can you be more specific and give some examples where it does not work? Of course we know that coComment does (can) not work on all possible blogs, but we try to fix it wherever we can.
February 18th, 2006 at 22:56
free for register. hurray!!!!!!!
February 19th, 2006 at 01:08
Testing, testing, even more testing!
And now I’m playing with logos.
CoComment logo just added to my test blog - http://ignazio.blogspot.com
Guess where.
February 19th, 2006 at 01:26
Cool
I like that.
February 19th, 2006 at 03:16
Brilliant, truly brilliant. coComment is on it’s way to becoming the top web 2.0 innovation all around. Kudos from an ardent fan and my wishes for you to become bigger and better.
Firstly good to see registration becoming free and also good to see you people have increased the platforms. Support for CMS’s and NMS’s would be terrific.
Finally, # Enabling you to track all of your conversations in their entirety - not just conversations with other coCommenters.
Good to see my idea did hit some ground.
Cheers!
February 19th, 2006 at 05:30
It is wonderful that the invites are open now.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:39
[…] Ça, ça devient très vite barbant. On oublie de cliquer sur le bookmarklet. Du coup, notre commentaire n’apparaît pas sur notre page de conversations coComment. Il paraît qu’on peut maintenant cliquer sur le bookmarklet après avoir envoyé le formulaire, mais personnellement je n’ai pas testé. […]
February 19th, 2006 at 13:56
Oh yes, now I can see those CoComment buttons at the top on the TeamBlog.
* Co - Compatible
* Co - Integrated
Nice.
February 20th, 2006 at 08:43
hey merlin, think you could ensure that links created in comments are kept hyper within the “comments elsewhere” widget on our blogs? oh, and a simple formatting request: add a paragraph break between two comments within grouped comments from a single thread elsewhere.
thanks (great service!)
February 20th, 2006 at 08:46
as for platforms not working, i’ve found that blogger comments in a popup don’t work too.
February 20th, 2006 at 09:08
thanks
February 20th, 2006 at 16:34
What I would like: a registration/login system which people can use to sign in to different blogs - like TypeKey.
February 20th, 2006 at 19:24
[…] It looks like - and I hope - that CoComment is working on identity systems as well. With these, we can have a persistent online identity but retaining our privacy. We also help blog owners cut down on spam, if we can require registration for commenting. […]
February 20th, 2006 at 23:30
[…] If you hadn’t noticed from GTDWannabe’s comment, or his her post here, note that CoComment no longer needs an invite. […]
February 21st, 2006 at 11:11
[…] CoComment is now out of closed beta, by the way - anyone can now sign up. […]
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:34
since starting to comment on blogs i always missed something like this - so thank you very much!
top priority for me:
Enabling you to track all of your conversations in their entirety - not just conversations with other coCommenters.
also:
as i see it, links within cocomments are not shown. please add this.
best regards,
march.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:47
Yeah, congrats on getting so far in so little time.
I second the motion to make ‘track all conversations’ the top priority.
February 23rd, 2006 at 02:15
Like most of the fellow coCommentors, this has now become an essential tool to keep track of comments made on other blogs. Over time, there are so many comments posted, it is difficult to keep an effective follow-up. Well done coCo for filling in the void.
February 23rd, 2006 at 02:17
PS: I hope you folks can work out a workaround for coComment working with Haloscan.com type of comment app which throws up a pop-up to post comment
RJ @ http://www.notjustcricket.com
February 23rd, 2006 at 20:02
CoComment open to everyone
February 24th, 2006 at 03:52
Enabling you to track all of your conversations in their entirety - not just conversations with other coCommenters.
^^^^Yay!!!
February 24th, 2006 at 14:36
@NotJustCricket,
yes we are working on a solution directly with Haloscan on one side and then on the other side we will provide you with browsers extensions that will enable coComment also for comment forms in popup window.
February 24th, 2006 at 16:25
@ nicolas,
thanks for the heads up. coCo can only become stronger and a killer app once that happens.
February 24th, 2006 at 22:20
ciao
February 25th, 2006 at 11:10
I’m really enjoying coComment — I’ve made a recommendations about some hiccups and bugs I’ve encountered on my site:
http://www.feverishmind.com/2006/02/cocomment-web-20-service-worth.html
http://www.feverishmind.com/2006/02/another-cocomment-tip.html
I wasn’t sure where else to post these tips for coComment users. Perhaps you should consider creating a forum?
February 25th, 2006 at 11:12
Oops — i’ve just noticed the ‘forum’ link
February 26th, 2006 at 11:51
Congrats!
February 27th, 2006 at 11:55
Super duper… Perhaps the Web 2.0 service of 2006….
http://gigerblog.blogspot.com
February 28th, 2006 at 01:40
[…] Check out what’s up next. […]
March 1st, 2006 at 06:03
good
March 2nd, 2006 at 18:52
I’ve just tried it with Blogger. It works like a charm. Brilliant idea, great execution. Keep up the good work! And, thank you. Browsing is fun again.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:57
Very nice thing
March 3rd, 2006 at 14:59
123song
March 4th, 2006 at 11:25
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September 22nd, 2007 at 04:45
Hi all!
Thanks!