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Well, we have had a great response to coComment at the event. Press coverage has been really good and everyone to whom we’ve demonstrated Version 2.0 has been very positive about what we’ve built.

Of course, that’s not to say that it can’t be improved further so please do keep your thoughts and comments for development coming.

I’ve attached a couple of photos of our very active booth in the DEMO Pavilion.

Cheers,

Matt.

coComment is at DEMOfall 07 this week. Today, Tuesday, we got our chance at our six minutes of fame in front of nearly 800 people. I’ll leave it to the subsequent blogs and posts to see how we did but, I have to say, we enjoyed it and we certainly seemed to get a lot of attention on our stand afterwards.

Our entrance

Presenting

Matt speaking

For those who would like to inflict the full presentation on themselves it’s accessible on the DEMO website at the following location DEMOfall 07 Presentations (You will need to select coComment to view)

Matt

Firstly, an apology. The upgrade of coComment to Version 2.0 Beta has been difficult and I know that, as users, you have been inconvenienced. We are sorry and promise not to do it to you again.

As well as the usual teething troubles and unexpected bugs, we experienced a database corruption which made coComment increasingly slow and unresponsive to requests. We believe that we do now have the major bugs ironed out and that the service should be faster and more reliable than before the upgrade. However, if your experience differs please do let us know and we will resolve it for you.

We have also had a lot of feedback on the design and its usability. We have, in response to many comments, reverted conversation display to the old ‘accordion’ style within the MyConversations framework and the client to the previous version. The ‘new’ client, which appears on websites to allow you to control coComment, is now only activated when you use the Sidebar viewing mechanism. We will give you the option as to which client to use, with the default setting being the less ‘intrusive’ version.

This is still a beta product … the final version will be released September 24th … and we are always completely open to feedback on usability/functionality/design/look and feel. Please let us have your comments/concerns and we will respond.

Once again, our apologies for the difficulties. We believe very strongly in the future of the comment space and coComment 2.0 is intended to take the state of the art a long way forward. In trying to do so much, in one step, we created problems for you and ourselves. We will not, in future, shy away from developing the product to move it forward BUT we won’t try and do quite so much in one go !

Please feel free to email us personally with your feedback/comments and thank you for your patience and understanding.

Best regards,

Matt (CEO) – matt@cocomment.com
Nicolas (CSO) – nicolas@cocomment.com
Christophe (CTO) – christophe@cocomment.com
Kristina (VP Marketing) – kristina@cocomment.com

coComment V2 Beta is now live! Please check it out. This is a major update of the service, including many new features, which we’ve been told makes coComment the most sophisticated conversation tracking tool out on the market.

In this process of transition to V2 Beta, we are working very hard to correct any unexpected bugs and provide you with as little interruption as possible. As this is the biggest upgrade to the product we’ve had thus far, we would appreciate your help with identifying and informing us of any issues or inconsistencies you may notice with the new version. Though we did as much pre-launch testing as possible, there may be some glitches that occur now that the new version is in production. We promise to do everything possible to fix the bugs immediately. PLEASE SEND ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO: info@cocomment.com

If you’re looking for inspiration is checking out the new features we suggest to try the following:
1. MY COCOMMENT (Your personal page with overview of your conversations, your community and what’s hot in the conversational space)
2. MY CONVERSATIONS (Updates on your conversations and the ones from your friends, groups, favorites plus invitations sent by your buddies to join interesting conversation)
3. MY COMMUNITY (Your friends, groups, favorites, followers and conversational neighbors)
4. MY GROUPS (Starting point to share conversations by interest, only with selected people (private) or extend interactions for your audience)
5. SIDEBAR (Navigate efficiently from any one conversation to another)
6. COMMENT ANYWHERE (Start a conversation on any webpage, comment on and share with your community interesting information anywhere on the web)

Thanks for your support! We’re very excited to bring you these major improvements and upgrades!

The coComment Team

It’s been a busy week for coComment, migrating to v2 and attending more exciting industry events in SF! Last Monday we were at the Geek Dinner, hosted by Loic Le Meur & Hugh MacLeod. It was fun meeting more bloggers and commenters, not to mention the swanky venue. Now Loic has lived up to the likes of Posh and Becks, having his own US welcome event, sans Tom & Katie

Then last night we were at the Bloggers Connect conference. It was great to see the faces of many bloggers writing about real estate. It made us aware just how many different topics our users write about. And we had a chance to learn a few things about buying condos, mortgage rates, etc.

And last, as you know, our development team is working 24/7 on the migration to v2, so look forward to the new site very soon!

Last Friday coComment was the Tech Crunch 9 party at August Capitol on Sand Hill Road. Thank you to all that stopped by and took a look at coComment v2.0 Beta. The party was attended by 900 people and had amazing energy!

We met great people and gave a peak into the upcoming v2.0 Beta, to be released next Tuesday. In the meantime, you can get to see the new version at http://beta.cocomment.com although you’ll need to enter Username: betatester and Password: cocommentv2 for access to the test environment.

You can also check out some of the photos and videos from the Tech Crunch 9 party.

Will be live on Tuesday, 2nd August.

We were planning to go live this Friday but a last-minute glitch, don’t you just hate them, meant we had to postpone until Tuesday.

Since we’re so close to the live date, for those interested, you can get to see the new version at http://beta.cocomment.com although you’ll need to enter Username: betatester and Password: cocommentv2 to access the test environment.

Cheers,

Matt.

Got an opinion about everything? Blessed with the gift of gab? Then coComment wants you!

coComment is searching for the ultimate conversationalist to be a commentator for coComment 2.0 set to launch this summer.

There are 5 ways to become a finalist and win prizes so start your conversation now!

Follow the link: http://www.brickfish.com/Lifestyles/coComment?=cocomment details on how to enter.

Spark some dialogue or add to the conversation and you can be 1 of 5 finalists. A one week clash of the conversationalists
will determine who takes the top spot.

To learn more about the competition, simply copy and paste this url to your web browser:
http://www.brickfish.com/Lifestyles/coComment

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So if you think that you are a “true conversationalist”, this is your opportunity to share with others, speak your mind, get valuable feedback and why not, make new friends!

It only takes a couple of minutes to check it out!

coComment has spent the last couple of months very busily hiring.

We thought that now was a good time to start introducing them to you so here, first, are the most important group; the Development Team. They are working on coComment 2.0 at the moment which we’ll be launching in Q3.

The team are (left to right and back to front); Tetyana, Maxim, Alexander, Victor, Mikhail, Yuriy, Marina, Oleg (Development Manager), Sergey, Igor.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your comments, ideas and suggestions.

Cheers,

Matt.

We’re at Innovate Europe this week telling everyone about coComment.

Have met several sites that have now decided to integrate with coComment so expect to see a very rapid rise in the number of conversations available to you on coComment.

We’re also delighted to welcome SevenLoad to coComment … great video content and some very funny conversations too Sevenload Conversations.

Finally, please drop us a line and tell us how you like the new discover and search facilities. Are they what you want to help you find people, sites and conversations ? What else do you want ?

Cheers,

Matt.