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We identified the problem: too much load on a new functionality of the service, the fa-mous crawler which runs in alpha (visible for us to test it live but still hidden for you, my dear coComment-ers) and we be officially announced very soon. We optimized the application and now the problems are now solved. We shouldn’t have these problems any more.

Sorry again for the trouble, and as I mention in the previous post:
No worry, your comments are still all in coComment.

We currently face problems with our Oracle Database.
We are investigating the problem and will try to fix it as soon as possible.

Don’t worry, your comments won’t be lost and you will retrieve a stable coCo-environment soon.
We are really sorry about this and apologize for any inconvenience you encounter.

Ryan Oelke - the Buddhist geek - calls coComment a gift from the blogging gods. And it comes from someone working on an Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Master of Arts, so I guess he knows a thing or two about gods

More down to earth, Rob is happy because coComment helps him never forget to argue again! But I wonder what you can argue about when football bores you

At coComment, we are working on ideas to make conversations better. We plan to bring more community-related functionalities and information in conversations. Practically, coComment users will have the choice to associate more information about them (picture ( 3 )) and add functionalities to open the conversation to more users or to filter it (picture ( 2 )).

Concretely, when a coComment user comments on a page, he can choose to automatically add the keyword “[cocommented]” to his comments. (picture ( 1 )). We use this keyword as a hook to insert meta-data on a specific comment. We will try to make it as discrete as possible (small tags). In order to transform the [cocommented] hook in meta information and functions we need to call the coComment script. This is done by either:

• the Firefox extension (automatically)
• the bookmarklet (on Click)
• on an integrated blog (automatically)

How can we make conversations better, more active, more pesonalized, filtered and with more information on people participating (reputation).
What do you think?

Illustration:

1. A comment with a [cocommented] hook:

2. The hook is replaced by more information and functionalities related to the comment:

3. We have more information on the author directly in the conversation: