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We’re starting 2008 at full speed and will be at CES/Digital Hollywood in Las Vegas next week. There are couple events we want to bring to you attention, so you can come by and say hello to us.

coComment PANEL
Come out and visit our panel on Wednesday, January 9th at 1:30 PM (Session A DH21) where we will be discussing “The Next Generation in Mobile & Broadband Platforms: Social Networks, Widgets, Search, Information, Advertising & Personalization”

CES BLOGGER PARTY
We look forward to seeing many of you at “The 2008 It Won’t Stay in Vegas” CES Blogger Party on Tuesday, January 8th, starting at 6:00PM. For a formal invite, PLEASE EMAIL cocomment@parnassusgroup.com. This will be a great opportunity for all bloggers to reconnect and have fun. The event will be held at The Atomic Test Museum (755 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV)

Looking forward to seeing you guys at next week!
The coComment Team

As you may know, we recently sent out a user survey in order to get your feedback that would allow us to better serve your needs.
We want to thank you for taking the time to complete the survey and share with us your opinions and suggestions about coComment.
We have gathered great information and have already started working on how to implement as many of your suggestions as possible, in order to make coComment a even more useful tool for you.

We have already selected ten survey respondents and will be announcing soon.

Thank you again, and please keep the feedback and suggestions coming.

coComment Team

coComment is one of the sponsors of this year’s Le Web 3, in Paris on December 11 & 12. Come by our booth located in the exhibitor area to say hello, check out the latest features and take a t-shirt home.
Entrepreneurs, bloggers and web2.0 players around the world are attending this year’s conference. A truly International event, with over 1000 people from around the globe.
This year’s theme is “New Technology” and we love to tell you how coComment will play a part in the next generation of web technologies.

In case you hadn’t noticed, we issued a new version of coComment this week. There were a number of minor fixes and two new functionalities that we’d like to tell you about.

coComment on Facebook

We issued a Facebook application. Actually, we issued two. One to allow you to show all the comments you’ve made and another to show all the comments on your site. To load them simply search for coComment in the applications area and install them to your Facebook profile.

Here’s a picture of my comments shown in my Facebook profile.

coComment conversation outsourcing

As you probably know, we have been powering conversations on a few select sites recently. We got some good feedback on this so we have launched this as a service that anyone can use. Simply go to Tools>Tools for Site Owners>Outsource Conversations to coComment and input your site details. You can then use this code to deliver conversations on your site completely free of charge.

As ever, please keep the comments and feedback coming. We are very much in the ‘polishing’ mode where we are looking to make coComment the easiest service to use as well as the most complete.

coComment was at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas last week and thank you to all bloggers that stopped by to say hello. It was great fun and we put together a short video from the conference itself … hope you enjoy it! Kristina

Yes ! We did it !

coComment Version 2.0 won a DEMOGod award at DEMOfall 07. To say that we were ‘happy’ is to seriously underestimate the situation.

Getting Version 2.0 launched has been a long and difficult road for all of us. However, it makes the success when we do get there so much sweeter. I genuinely believe that as a result of all the honest feedback we’ve received from our users we have produced a much stronger product. So, a big big thank you to all of you for taking the time to let us know, for being honest yet supportive and for sticking with us even when we faltered.

I would also very much like to thank (sorry, this is starting to sound like an Oscar’s acceptance isn’t it) our development team. As is always the way, the business and executive people attend the events, stand up and speak and receive the plaudits. The reality is that the majority of the real work is done in our development office so the award is destined for the wall there.

But, as ever, the journey continues. coComment Version 2.0 is not a perfect product, it can get better and, with your support and feedback, it will.

Thanks,

Matt.

PS. Here we are looking suitably smug

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

We have had, as I am sure everyone can imagine, a large postbag of items from users with comments and feedback about coComment Version 2.0 Beta.

As a result, we are at the moment undertaking a redesign to make the user interface slicker and easier to use. We are not, having learnt our lessons from the Beta launch, going to go for one huge new release but will, instead, be releasing new versions frequently (weekly, maybe sometimes slightly more) in the next few weeks each with small updates and iterations.

We think that the speed and bug issues are now resolved. However, that does not mean that there will never be any issues … as we have to interact with unknown websites across the internet it may be that you find a site where coComment does not work properly. If you do, please please please let us know … we will fix it but if we don’t know we can’t.

As ever, feel free to contact us at any time.

Best,

Matt.

As some of you may have noticed, when we transitioned to coComment V2 Beta, we encountered some technical issues, not too uncommon for major product updates like this one. In an effort to eliminate as many issues as possible, we did a private beta test program first. However, as this is a major new update, it was impossible to test all possible combinations prior to launch. We could have waited longer to release V2 Beta, but we felt that our users would benefit more from getting a significanlty improved product sooner rather than later.

With that, we are working very hard to solve any of the existing issues and make the service as error-free as possible. As some of the potential bugs may have not been detected yet, and we WANT to hear about any problems, comments, issues that you may be experiencing. This is precisely why we released a Beta version of the product. Please feel free to send you feedback to info@cocomment.com and we WILL respond promptly to resolve them.

Thank you for your understanding!
The coComment Team