The official coComment weblog

Just so you know: your comments are displayed again in your box. Sorry for the inconvenience. Seems a very reactive development team (and few indexes in the database) solved the performance problem.

And we just placed the order, more servers are on the way!

It seems the service is pretty slow today. We probably gave away a bit too much coco-codes all over the web

Anyway, we’re working on it. As an emergency measure and to guarantee you guys the best performance, the following measures were taken:

• we’ve stopped handing out codes for a while. Sorry
• we have some specialists coming tomorrow and next week to investigate and prepare for a major server upgrade.
• the blog boxes have been changed to “Blog box in maintenance” until we optimize the database.

We are working around the clock to fix all these issues. Thanks to all for the great feedback, you guys have been coming with tons of constructive remarks, critics, ideas, suggestions, many things that will make the service much better in the end.

We look forward to having an improved service available asap.

It’s hard to believe but it’s true. Cocomment is the 6th most searched term on Technorati, Superbowl is 7th!

Anand just put the Firefox extension he made - a simple yet useful right-click cocomment activation system - on his blog. Get it while it’s hot!

Peter Rukavina came up with an elegant solution to make your blog compatible with CoComment.

1. Changed the id of the comment form to comment-form.
2. Changed the name of the Name field to author.
3. Confirmed that the name of the Email field was email.
4. Changed the name of the Comment text field to text.
5. Changed the name of the submit button to post.
6. Added http://ruk.ca/” title=”Home” /> to the title section of the page.

More information on Peter’s blog.

Help us get on the digg homepage. Let’s try to make the grand slam: top 10 in delicious, technorati, memeorandum and now digg! We’re almost there, thanks for all the people blogging, linking and bookmarking us.

You guys are quick:

It just occurred to me that one could easily create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will enable coComment if a comment form has been detected. So, I decided to make one quickly! It is very simple.

I’ve got it working for WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, MSN Spaces, and Xanga. Let me know if you run into any problems and I’ll try to fix it. But, as I browse to various blogs, it seems to be working.

Here is the Greasemonkey script: Automatic coComment.

Great stuff from SolutionWatch!

We are working on providing a code to all those who registered for an invitation. This should be done Monday morning.

This is amazing. I showed the service a few people yesterday night, including Robert Scoble, Euan Semple, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and David Galipeau. I gave a few beta codes to play around, get some feedback from worldclass bloggers.

Next thing I know: we are the second ranked news item on Memeorandum. Scobleized! I am preparing an email to lobby for ten new servers…

So the time has finally arrived - the coComment service has hit the public (at least in a limited - eg invitation only to a few beta testers - sense). Nicolas (the man in charge at coComment) and I are here at the LIFT06 (http://www.lift06.org/ )conference in Geneva, and we’re spreading the word, and the invitation codes, for the launch of the Beta.

Focused on “Life, Ideas, Futures, Together” - the LIFTconference has been heavily focused on technology, entrepreneurship, communication, and the power of blogging. As such, it’s been a great place to selectively introduce coComment and get some feedback from the kind of people who really know about this stuff - and who we hope will soon be the hardcore users of our service. Even better, Laurent Haug -the guy who organized the whole conference (http://www.lift06.org/doku.php/people:laurent_haug)  - also happens to have been our key advisor during coComment’s development. Thanks Laurent for working your butt off to bring us a great conference, and for helping us bring coComment to reality! We hope you’ll continue to play an active role! (after you get some sleep)

After being here for two days, listening to a lot of smart people talk about what’s happening in the world of technology and internet/blogging enabled communication, I can truly say that I think we’ve hit upon a good idea at the right time. One of the overall messages I’ve been hearing is that it’s not all about the old “three c’s” of content, commerce or communication anymore. It’s about CONVERSATION. Blogging is enabling and building online conversation in a big way, but it’s reaching it’s limits on the current platforms. Entirely coincidentally, Bruno Giusanni - who gave yesterday’s keynote address at the conference - had this to say in his blog (http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/) on the subject…

 ”Robert Scoble and I were trading examples of blogging frustration over breakfast this morning in Geneva. One of the things that came up and on which we agreed is that most blogging tools are already reaching the limits of their capacity to provide the platform of a real conversation…

…there is a need for the next-level blogging platform, and for new tools in the blogging ecosystem that could help turn blogging from an instrument of mainly self-expression into an instrument of interaction and conversation”

That’s EXACTLY why we created coComment! (and I promise, he didn’t give us the idea beforehand!). We know there’s power in conversation, and we wanted to create a way to make the global conversation being enabled by blogs more efficient, more powerful, and more fun! Anyway, it’s cool to know that we’re addressing an issue that some serious bloggers have recognized. We’re eargerly looking forward to getting the service fully open to the public in the coming weeks. Congratulations to the whole coComment team - we’re almost there, and the blogosphere is ready and waiting for something just like this!