What’s new?
July 20th, 2006
The new coComment is here, and it brings a LOT of improvements to the existing service. We will detail each feature in future posts, but here is an overview of what’s new:
- THE COCOCRAWLER
The coCoCrawler has arrived, and will keep an eye on your conversations for you. Remember when coComment would inform you of new comments only when they were made by other users of the system? It’s over now, the most requested feature is up and running (it actually has been running in hidden mode for a month) so don’t be surprised to find many new comments in your conversations.
- TRACK THIS CONVERSATION
Another heavily requested feature: you can now track conversations even if you don’t participate! Simply check the appropriate box after coComment has been activated. The conversation will appear in your page and be followed by our crawler.
- META CONVERSATION
Want to comment on a web page that has no built-in comment functionality? Now you can activate coComment on any webpage, and create a comment which will trackable in your conversations on the coComment service. If anyone else comments on that page, you’ll be able to monitor the conversation - as you would on a comment enabled website. Now you can start conversations everywhere!
- NEW INTERFACE, SITE STRUCTURE AND NAVIGATION
With help of the great usability specialists Namahn, we have reorganized and simplified the site. A new homepage will facilitate login and registration, a new navigation allows easy access to your conversations, community, and tools.
- TRY THE SERVICE WITHOUT REGISTERING
If you want to give coComment a spin without signing up, a temporary cookie will be set on your browser - without you having to give any information.
- FILTERING OF CONVERSATIONS
Filter your conversations by type. See what you said on blogs, on media sites, in forums, choose how your conversations will be displayed.
- AND TONS OF OTHER FEATURES
Five languages available (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), more capture-compatible platforms (most notably YouTube!), add people or sites as favorites, send coComment invitations, customize your page (try to drag and drop the boxes on the right of the screen!), and much more!
A lot of new things for you 
We hope you enjoy the new coComment, happy conversations folks! We’re glad to see our top commenter already likes the new features!
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July 20th, 2006 at 14:27
Whaou! let’s play with those new features !
July 20th, 2006 at 14:34
My post will be up VERY shortly!
July 20th, 2006 at 14:43
Now it’s up: http://www.businessblogwire.com/2006/07/cocomment_now_tracks_all_blog_1.html
Thank you, coCo team!
July 20th, 2006 at 14:49
Easton: remember you still have the keys of this blog so feel free to post here
July 20th, 2006 at 16:38
Neue Version von CoComment
CoComment hat eine neue und erweiterte Version ihres Dienstes freigegeben.
Die neuen Features sind äusserst praktisch und verbessern den Dienst nochmals erheblich.
Was ist CoComment?
CoComment hilft dir, all deine Kommentare und Bemerkungen, die du i…
July 20th, 2006 at 16:52
Great new addtions. I look forward to putting them to use.
July 20th, 2006 at 17:13
This sucks. Don’t install toolbar icons without asking. Why does it now take me two clicks to get to my conversations page instead of one? How is this progress that it now takes me LONGER to do what I want to do?
July 20th, 2006 at 17:31
Fantastic! I had abandoned coComment because of the WordPress plugins failing to deliver and huge problems implementing the old code. A friend gave me the heads-up on the changes and I decided to give it another go because I loved the concept; it was just implementing it that proved a nightmare. I’m pleased to be back, with everything working and IE, as far as I can tell at the moment, not crashing out (I had few if any problems with Firefox). Thank you! I’ve added the RSS feed to my blog as a page - your implementation would have looked out of place - and so far, touch wood, very happy indeed! x
July 20th, 2006 at 17:32
Um, I didn’t get a toolbar icon added with or without asking. What’s this about a toolbar? x
July 20th, 2006 at 17:34
My firefox toolbar had a cocomment item on it after upgrading the extension…
July 20th, 2006 at 17:56
This new version is very exciting. I’ve been waiting for it! So far, everything works very well..Love the new features!
July 20th, 2006 at 17:59
ahockley: I’ve just installed the extension again, will see what I think. But I’m very pleased IE doesn’t keel over and die anymore (not that I use it but I had several visitors at spicycauldron.com who use IE who reported everything from freezes to reboots using the old code/implementation). And the new bar below the comments is stylish and considerably more discreet - and best of all, seems to be working reliably! x
July 20th, 2006 at 18:06
Okay, I’ve got the icon but it’s as tiny as any other and doesn’t take up much space. Plus, as far as I can see, it provides useful functionality so I’m happy to have it. It’s not like it’s a spyware toolbar or some such.
You may have a point in so far as they should explain BEFORE installation that the extra icon will appear, and what it’s there for. Most people won’t mind if they know in advance, and what it gives them.
July 20th, 2006 at 18:18
Thanks so much for all these improvements !!
I’m coming back to use this nice tool.
July 20th, 2006 at 18:28
I don’t like the new toolbar icon, I liked the old way I could track my convesations, just one click, and I could access my conversations.
July 20th, 2006 at 18:44
I really like these new features, and the new look of the site!
I just have a question: I comment on many blogs which aren’t integrated, which means the post’s title show up on coComment as “blog archive”, “leave a comment!”, etc. This is, of course, very confusing and makes it impossible to know which post is which. :\ With the old “cocobar”, you could avoid this by editing the title and/or URL (of the blog or post) manually, and I did this a lot.
However, with the new bar, I can’t find anywhere to do this. Is it no longer possible? 
July 20th, 2006 at 18:46
Shouldn’t the RSS feed update all the time? I’m finding neither of the RSS feeds I’m using - the conversations one, and the my comments only one - are live updating. Anyone who wants to see what I mean, check out spicycauldron.com/cocomments/ and if you’ve any ideas, please get back to me. I can see up-to-date coComments when I’m here at the coComments site; but not on my own blog.
I like the new toolbar button. Can’t please all, I guess - many loved the old system but I didn’t because it was impossibly unintuitive. x
July 20th, 2006 at 18:59
My post is up
http://bloggeratto.blogspot.com/2006/07/cocomment-upgraded.html
it looks, great, great.
July 20th, 2006 at 19:02
great update, it’s truly amazing!
July 20th, 2006 at 20:00
Thank you for your hard work guys. Much appreciated. I’m going to test the new cocomment on my Textpattern blog. I’m really excited to see support for TXP blogs!
July 20th, 2006 at 20:29
Doh, fixed my feed problem. It was to do with WordPress. I amended the cache timeout for the RSS feeds, all is fine now! They were only updating every six hours… x
July 20th, 2006 at 21:07
great guys, congratulations on the major upgrade.
July 20th, 2006 at 21:23
I was waiting for this feature for so long
Tried to get all my friends psyched up on the concept of coComment but failed as it did not track non coComment users. I know that now they will realize what a great tool this is.
Couldn’t help but post about it in CoComment - track your comments II
July 20th, 2006 at 21:32
As a blog engine author, how do we integrate other engines to coCoCrawler?
July 20th, 2006 at 21:54
Lets get to it then. Bring on the new features and lets see what they can really do for my blog.
July 20th, 2006 at 22:06
[…] I use CoComment to track the comments I write in different sites, and it was a not-too-bad basic service, but it lacked a few things that’d make it a great service…until I got an email today, informing the CoComment users that there were new features, among them one that I really really wanted, the ability to track a conversation that you have *not* posted to. […]
July 20th, 2006 at 23:03
Store my password securely!
July 20th, 2006 at 23:24
Yahh~
That’s what I really need:)
July 20th, 2006 at 23:44
@Geamy: when you comment on a blog/article for which we do not yet have the title and URL information in our database, you can still verify if it was extracted correctly by clicking the red exclamations mark that will appear in the right of the cocobar below the textarea.
July 20th, 2006 at 23:49
@Laura: to coordinate about the integration of the CoCrawler with your blog engine, just get intouch with us via http://www.cocomment.com/contact or email me at chris@cocomment.com and I’ll relay to the person in charge of that.
July 21st, 2006 at 00:00
Oh my! this new version is a hype. So cool. I love it.
July 21st, 2006 at 00:08
Wow this is lovely!
July 21st, 2006 at 00:13
I don’t get it. Not all my conversations appear in the coComment badge? I’ve created an entirely new one to be sure that there wasn’t something in the original that was the problem, but that’s not it. I’ve just commented on a site, and that comment appears in the list on my coComment homepage, but not on my badge. The comment was left over an hour ago.
What gives?
July 21st, 2006 at 00:37
@Mocha: Yes, I noticed that when I tested coComment on a forum after posting here, and became very excited since I thought it’d solve my “problem”. But it doesn’t…
Have a look at http://www.cocomment.com/blog/24780 , and you’ll see that two posts have the correct title and URL (since I could change them in the old version), while the last one has the wrong URL and is just called “L E A V E A C O M M E N T”. And AFAIK, there’s no longer any way for me to change those things before adding a comment?
I can contact the owner and ask if they could integrate it, but I don’t really want to have to do that for every blog that hasn’t been configured correctly (besides, there’s no guarantee that they’ll listen to me)…
So I guess what I’m saying is: if it’s possible, bring back the option to correct titles and URLs before adding it to coComment.
July 21st, 2006 at 00:56
[…] coComment has announced an update to their blog comment tracking system. The improvements include: […]
July 21st, 2006 at 01:31
The new coComment is here
For all your blog-stalking needs. Kidding. Sort of. coComment tracks your comments, and now other people’s comments, so you don’t have to work so hard to follow conversations (like reloading pages). Convenience, man, it’s all about convenience. [via}
July 21st, 2006 at 03:19
[…] coComment 新功能登場，這次的改進真的非常好： […]
July 21st, 2006 at 04:02
try the co-comment WP plugin here http://blog.igeek.info/still-fresh/2006/05/02/cocomment-it/
July 21st, 2006 at 06:18
coComments - ваш персональный комментатор
Новые возможности сервиса coComments придают ему значительное преимущество по сравнению с подобными сервисами.Напомню о том, что уже поддерж…
July 21st, 2006 at 06:44
Laurent, thank you for the mention! Yes, I am enjoying the new coCo. There are a few tiny glitches which I have raised in the forums, but overall I meant every word in my blog post.
July 21st, 2006 at 09:53
[…] Cocomment has announced on the blog an update to their comment tracking system: […]
July 21st, 2006 at 11:12
coComments: it’s so cooool
Поделился впечатлениями о новых возможностях сервиса комментариев “coComment“
…
July 21st, 2006 at 12:07
Improved Cocomment with lots of new features, I just absolutely love what it does for me. Can somebody give it a test drive on my blog to see if it’s working properly. I will also give it a test drive on your blog.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:25
Wow, this is great.
But I guess the extension has a bug? I removed the coco icon from my toolbar (drag and customize thingy of firefox) and on next start it reappeared! I use the lower bar icon to get to my page and the button is kinda obstructing my Home button
Oh well, nvm, I’ll get used to it :]
July 21st, 2006 at 12:29
@Geamy: I changed the options for editing titles and urls to be available in a wider range of situations. Basically, it will not show on blogs that have enabled cocomment support and it will not show on pages which the coComment server already has a record of.
July 21st, 2006 at 13:29
Same problem as QwertyManiac here: Icon reappears after Firefox restart, although I had taken it out of the toolbar manually… Could you please solve this in your extension? Thanks!
July 21st, 2006 at 14:39
OK, still having the same problem with the comments, but more info: the conversation in question shows no comments at all in my coComment home page, and the conversation does not appear in any of the feeds, either.
@Mocha: any idea what might be causing this to happen? Check out http://www.cocomment.com/comments/DragonFlyEye to see what I mean.
BTW, I love the new interface, and can’t wait to get things worked out so I can really use this great program!
July 21st, 2006 at 15:27
Old system had a feature I cannot find it in new version and it was ability to comment on sites and services which was not supported mainly by coComment.
It was very usefull feature because it worked for me for one of major blog service providers in my country. For example you can see I used it for this blog post.
July 21st, 2006 at 15:38
The new FF extension is invasive, so is the new JS for blog integration.
WATCH YOUR STATUS.
July 21st, 2006 at 17:08
All: thx for the reports, we’ll investigate what you are sending. Keep on writing if you find something wrong. We will soon ask you guys what you want for the future (i.e. keep the features request aside for a few more days)
FriendlyAndAnonymousAnnoyedUser: let’s get constructive here! What do you mean by invasive?
July 21st, 2006 at 17:22
Hey everyone, I’ve reviewed the thoughts of 22 bloggers on the new coComment. Just thought it might help coComment improve!
July 21st, 2006 at 19:42
sweet - thank you
July 21st, 2006 at 20:40
Seems to be some problems with all of the comments posted by non-cocomment users. I cannot see them in my account.
I wonder if the invasive issue is about the number of subscribers to an account. That’s a little scary. Especially if my competitor is subscribing, though as all my posts are all on the web I suppose it’s in the public domain. Its just don’t want to make it too easy for other people to track what I am tracking on. Or at least have the option of making comment tracks and comments private, except where someone else also comments on the same blog and uses CoComment.
July 21st, 2006 at 23:14
bostonmarketing: as your say the content is always public anyway. But you can turn your profile private if you want. Check your account page!
July 22nd, 2006 at 05:36
[…] coComment new features - coComment added some exiting new features: * THE COCOCRAWLER - now tracks all comments given after you, not only peopled logged into coComment * TRACK THIS CONVERSATION - lets you track converstions you did not comment on * META CONVERSATION - lets you add comments to any webpage […]
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:33
[…] 2. Apropos Comments: CoComment hat seinen Funktionsumfang endlich so erweitert, dass der Dienst plötzlich richtig viel Sinn macht. Per Conversation-Tracking und Comment-Crawling lassen sich verteilite Diskussionen in Kommentaren nun auch dann nachverfolgen, wenn die Mitdiskutanten CoComment nicht nutzen. Empfehlen kann ich für Firefox-User die CoComment-Extension, das alles noch weiter vereinfacht. [via Ereignishorizont und Dr. Hool] […]
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:51
thanks Lau that’s helpful. However, giving others the ability to review your comments means that other bloggers will be more likely to join in on your conversation. I think leaving it open provides more opportunities for conversation.
CoComment team: Any update on the cocomment problems I’ve been experiencing. Hey maybe you should have call this the beta release.
By the way what is your business model?
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:27
You mean about you not being able to see comments posted by non-cocomment users in your account? (no idea what that could be) Or do you mean issues you mentioned elsewhere?
July 22nd, 2006 at 13:57
[…] Every want to keep track of a blog comment thread that you left a comment on (or didn’t leave a comment on)? - coComment expands their feature list. […]
July 22nd, 2006 at 23:33
Nueva versión de cocomment liberada
Una nueva versión de cocomment ha visto la luz del día. CoComment es un sitio web que permite seguirle el paso a todos los comentarios que haces en distintos blogs en un solo lugar (o puedes suscribirte via RSS). La última versión parece funcionar …
July 22nd, 2006 at 23:37
coComment, útil en serio
Hace un par de meses, y siguiendo un dato de Claudio, me inscribí en cocomment, un sitio que en principio permitía seguir las “conversaciones” (o sea, los comentarios) que haces en blogs. La idea es tener en un solo sitio centralizado tod…
July 23rd, 2006 at 03:30
I want the “CO” icon gone from my toolbar. Everytime I remove it from Toolbars -> Customize … it comes back the next time I start Firefox. Aghhh!!!
July 23rd, 2006 at 09:32
That’s what I call invasive.
July 23rd, 2006 at 17:14
That has since been fixed: http://www.cocomment.com/teamblog/?p=99
July 23rd, 2006 at 19:41
Hey, thanks for that!
July 24th, 2006 at 02:45
[…] CoComment has hit another milestone and has lots of new features. Read more on their blog. […]
July 24th, 2006 at 07:52
The latest version of the extension was made during the week-end especially for you guys, check it out!
I hope AnnoyedUser is back to his old HappyUser self
July 24th, 2006 at 10:45
A new layer has been added to the social structure of the Web
This is a bit off-topic, but fits in well with some of the things I think about. A while back I got all excited about coComment. To me, it was a way to track the conversations I contributed to. Think
July 24th, 2006 at 13:17
Mocha, exactly right, I was not seeing comments from non-cocomment users for a day or so. However its working now. I am sure you folks are getting over loaded with server issues. I encourage you to tell the cocomment users more about the difficulties you are having in keeping the servers up and running, and tweaked. I think you’d get more realization about the complexity of your new upgrade. Transparency in this case would really help.
By the way, what is your business model?
July 24th, 2006 at 13:51
Building a community of happy users
…and making the web deliver on its promise of interactivity and transparency by helping it become efficient conversational media. Many business opportunities evolve from that 
Regarding the heat in our server rooms, there’s always stuff we want to make snappier, of course, but so far “only” Jackyan seems to be facing some problems with delays and we are not sure yet where exactly they are coming from. Things seem to be going pretty smooth for the increasing load levels we are currently experiencing.
July 24th, 2006 at 18:43
Just wanted to get back after several days to let you know all is well, I am still very happy with the new way of coCommenting, my blog integration is working a treat and I have no issues with the toolbar button or anything else… Unless we count the junk messages which are being sent here occasionally, which appear on my blog’s coComment page filled with URLs linking to all sorts of crappiness… Should you perhaps implement spam filters on coComment itself for those of us who are tracking conversations such as this one?
July 25th, 2006 at 06:29
Items of Interest: 2006.07.23
Things that I found interesting on July 23, 2006:
What’s New (at coComment)? - coComment has released a bunch of very useful features (which make their service significantly more attractive for the average blogger
Bezos Expeditions Invests in 37…
July 25th, 2006 at 10:50
Killer upgrade, guys and gals.
Excellent page-crawling action. Though blogspot.com sites don’t seem to work too well for me… which is annoying as I have a blogspot.com site
The firefox extension also rocks hard.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:12
[…] The CoComment service, which was debuted this year, has some updates, which make this service actually useful. Before those updates there was no way to check for and be notified about comments posted to somebody’s post. Now it is possible! […]
July 25th, 2006 at 20:32
So the coCrawler feature only works with some blogs and not others? I have yet to see this feature in action and I comment on both Blogger and MSN blogs, does the crawler not support either of these?
July 26th, 2006 at 04:00
Mocha, let me know if you ever open an American office.
I think you guys will do really well.
No problems with cocomment since those glitches I reported the other day.
July 26th, 2006 at 15:47
@Compmouse: the crawler is compatible with the following platforms:
Typepad
MovableType
Blogger
Flickr
digg,
Wordpress (most templates)
Kaywa
Blogsphere
Kulando,
ExpressionEngine
tblog
We have more coming, and virtually any platform with Microformats. As long as the commentosphere will be that unstructured it will be tough to provide full coverage of conversations, but we are getting there slowly…
July 26th, 2006 at 17:33
Mocha, I am having problems with specific conversations, cocomment is not tracking the whole conversation and I know there are a bunch of comments. Any suggestions?
July 26th, 2006 at 20:45
bostonmarketing: post a thread in the forum with the urls of the guilty conversations. Then we can have a look at them and figure out what is going on.
July 27th, 2006 at 02:11
it was an expression engine blog.
July 28th, 2006 at 19:25
@Lau “Any Platform with Microformats” is kind of a VERY broad and ambigous statement. Can you expand on that a bit? Sounds interesting but I’m wondering the which and where.
July 29th, 2006 at 08:17
Ja: well, the idea (which still has to be validated, so don’t get too excited yet) would be to support a microformat like hAtom. In this way, we could say “if your blog markup follows hAtom, then we can parse you”. See the idea?
July 29th, 2006 at 18:13
Thanks Steph. Awesome! hAtom is likely to catch on very quickly and makes a lot of sense.
Good luck on that front, it’s good to see the team is thinking ahead.
July 30th, 2006 at 22:57
hmmm .. I am tracking a conversation at Scoble’s sight and my coComment only shows two post, while the discussion has several. A few days ago everything seemed to be working properly.
July 31st, 2006 at 00:43
[…] coComment has added lots of new goodies, you might want to check them out, or add me and my blog as one of your favorites. […]
July 31st, 2006 at 14:28
Now everything seems to be OK again.
July 31st, 2006 at 17:38
mndoci : probably you came when we had to purge some parts of the database… before waiting for the crawler to re-parse all the comments from this blog.
Otherwise scoble’s blog should be pretty well parsed as I’m using it as one of the references for the parsers.
Hope he will not break his HTML code too often and too weirdly
August 1st, 2006 at 07:04
CoComment: tracking conversations
I’ve been using CoComment lately to track my blogosphere conversations.
The service is great - I always used to find myself wondering what blog writers would think of my comments, and if they would respond. And of course, I would never remember w…
August 1st, 2006 at 07:04
Very cool - thanks guys.
I blogged about CoComment here:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/2006/07/31/cocomment-tracking-conversations/
There’s one feature request and one bug report there … I’ll try to find the place to submit them both on your site as well.
August 1st, 2006 at 08:47
Every blogger comment I post is still listed as “ZoneX: Blogger: Post a Comment” with 0 comments tracked.
For the rest it’s ‘teh awesome’.
August 1st, 2006 at 09:30
For blogger blogs that use the popup commenting window, you need to click the red exclamation mark in the cocobar below the textarea and manually fill in the correct urls and titles for the article you are commenting on. There’s no way I can see to automatically get these values from within the popup window.
Or, an easier approach, you can select the text of your comment after you posted it to the blog and click the cocobutton in the toolbar or bookmarklet, which should allow you to capture it automatically with the correct titles and urls. If the URLs are correct, the coCrawler will be able to track the conversation for you as you expect.
August 1st, 2006 at 09:39
That seems to work, thanks. Although it makes me work
Don’t the comment popups contain the blogID and postID?
August 4th, 2006 at 23:18
Wow…there’s so much to check out…I don’t know where to begin. Mahalo Nui Loa!
August 14th, 2006 at 14:40
Thanks for your impressive Work….
I put info in my Flickr Pool :
FlickR★SurF
September 1st, 2006 at 09:24
i would love to see a easily browsable list of all bloggers who have commented on a site that i am reading.
September 1st, 2006 at 22:41
Wow. I logged in and it just said: yeah, we found these conversations that seem to include you but you haven’t tracked them yet. Would you like to add them?
Awesome.
October 24th, 2006 at 13:53
[…] Quite some time ago, Ben Metcalfe noted that coComment introduces a semantic fork in the conversation. The fork isn’t as important as it used to be, because we now have a lovely coCo-crawler. For Ben, part of the problem was that the blog owner did not have any control over the conversations which were published on the coComment site. And I agree that this is a problem when it comes to spam and the like. […]
November 11th, 2006 at 21:49
What about Russian in coComment?
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:26
test
November 23rd, 2006 at 14:30
trop de spam, décidemment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!