The official coComment weblog

Here at coComment, we quite like these commenting tips given by Reg Adkins over at Lifehack. I personally like the opening paragraph very much:

Posting a comment on someone’s website is like walking into their dining room and pulling a chair up to the table. If it’s your dining room table it can be a bit of a shock when someone shows up.

Read the rest of Reg’s suggestions, and let us know what you think. Do you agree? Disagree? Do you have other tips for being a “good commenter” that you would like to share with us?

technorati tags:commenting, comments, etiquette, manners, guidelines, suggestions, howto, blogging

The Maxthon browser (which is built upon the Internet Explorer engine, but provides all sorts of cool features) is now shipped with its coComment plugin.

The Maxthon coComment plugin adds a toolbar button that works like the bookmarklet, and also provides an easy link to the coComment home page and your conversations page.

Congratulations on releasing the first browser including a coComment button by default!

technorati tags:browser, maxthon, cocomment, plugin, bundle, download

John Cass tells us how coComment is making him discover people. Here’s what he says:

As I write comments on various blogs and track those conversations I start to come across the same people on different blogs. The value of CoComment in part is in helping me to quickly identify those people who share many of my interests. CoComment really is a social network that you can use to find people who share your same demographics and psychographics. In fact I’d suggest instead of calling social networks, demographic search engines, call them psychographic search engines.

What about you? Have you had a look at your coComment community? Has coComment encouraged you to get to know bloggers who participate in the same conversations as you better?

At coComment, we make a distinction between:

• your neighbours, who comment on the same subjects as you;
• your favourites, people you have explicitly chosen;
• your subscribers: those who have marked you as a favourite.

Do these distinctions seem relevant to you? Do you use them? We’d like to hear from you.

technorati tags:cocomment, socialsoftware, favourites, citation

Business 2.0 published a compilation of Web 2.0 companies around the world, and names coComment “the lazy blogger’s best friend”!

Check it out on page 108 of the August edition, available here!

We are delighted to be part of Europe’s next wave of cool startups, along the likes of Wikio, Netvibes, Plazes, Allpeers, Last.fm and the others

We are getting reviews from all over the world. Hopefully they are positive (sometimes it is a bit hard to tell!). Do you speak Korean, Dutch or Chinese? Here are a few links:

• coComment se renueva
  coComment es, tal vez, uno de los servicios más interesantes que hay para poder seguir todas las conversaciones que se generan en los comentarios de los blogs y, al mismo tiempo, uno de los servicios que recién ahora está empezando a ser usado por los blogs en español.
• coComment が自動トラッキング機能をサポート
  コメント管理サービス coComment が、ついに自動トラッキング機能 (自動クロール機能) をサポートした。
• CoComment vernieuwd
  En is nu stukken beter dan co.mments. En met handige Firefox extensie. Tijd om te switchen.
• Cocomment reloaded
  Cocomment kommt heute mit einem neuen Release mit einigen neuen interessanten Funktionen. So kann man in Zukunft auch Diskussionen abonnieren, an denen man sich nicht aktiv beteiligt und die Killerapplikation schlechthin, man kann jede beliebige Website kommentieren.
• 用js丰富你的书签功能
  美味书签、 furl、cocomment等服务，都具备利用书签按钮”一键提交”的功能，其实一点儿也不复杂，只要你掌握了在收藏夹中使用js的方法，就可以为你的书签工具栏增色不少。
• coComment
  Je suis dans ma journée applications. Celle-ci permet de centraliser vos conversations sur Internet, avec un suivi mais surtout, Cocomment vous informe quand de nouvelles réponses apparaissent.
• Nuove funzionalità per coComment
  Nuove funzionalità sono state annunciate per coComment, il servizio gratuito che permette di centralizzare la gestione dei propri commenti lasciati nella blogosfera. Ora il servizio è disponibile in cinque lingue, italiano compreso.

It is really great to see that we have users from all over the world. That’s the magic side of this business

Reminder: you can make coComment compatible with your language very easily! It only takes 3-4 hours of work to get eternal respect from your fellow compatriots using the service! Do like Roberto (Italian version) and Ralph (German version), contact us!

Loren Feldman made a video review of coComment on 1938 media. We’re happy to be named a “pretty cool tool”! Thanks for the feedback Loren (and nice tee shirt you have by the way

Loren Feldman: “This solves a problem. This extents the dialog. This makes your life easier.”

Matt also pointed us to the Hobson & Holtz podcast who is also talking about our relaunch in their July episode (around 09:47). Download it here!

There is a ton of feedback from the community at the moment, keep on telling us what you think folks we are listening!

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

These few days off from school (we have an extended week-end here in Switzerland) are helping me get back on the coCo-track, and I’m picking up some interesting posts and ideas as I make it through the long collection of recent blog articles mentioning coComment.

Cas of Bright Meadow finds herself using coComment to help her identify spam. User SootleDir notes that if you help search engines find your coComment user page, the links on it will get indexed. (Is that good or bad in the long run, I find myself thinking?)

Over at To Encourage and Equip, Tally reflects on how people comment, and tells us coComment helps him not be a drive-by commenter. A drive-by commenter is somebody who leaves a comment on your blog and never comes back.

I like this concept of the drive-by commenter. Personally, I often comment when I read an interesting post on a new blog I just landed on, if only to indicate to the author that I read it, appreciated it, or that it sparked some reflexion in me.

And indeed, the problem is that in pre-coComment days, I usually forgot where I left the comment, and as Tally says, rarely read the answer to my comment unless the author e-mailed me or people visited my site from his/her blog (then it’d show up in my referrer logs, and I’d think of visiting it again).

With coComment, I find my behaviour changing, and I wonder if we’re not going to discover some other type of "drive-by coCommenter" — the bookmarking one: I comment much more easily because of coComment (I know my words won’t get lost, and I know I can follow the conversation). I now find myself commenting much more systematically on new blogs I discover, because I know that it will automatically add them to my coComment user page.

What about you? How do you comment? How has coComment changed your commenting habits? Do you also find yourself using the Your Conversations page as your blogroll? 

technorati tags: cocomment, spam, indexing, commenters, habits, culture, behaviour, drivebycommenting

We are really proud to announce our first guest on the blog here. Please welcome the great Easton from BusinessBlogWire and Knowmoremedia!

Easton is a very active blogger and coCommenter. He is full of ideas for coComment which he communicates to us. So thanks Easton and now the stage is yours!

If you’re an enthusiastic coComment user, you probably wish that more of those participating in the same conversations than you were also using coComment. Sure, we are now capable of tracking comments by anybody if they are made on an integrated site. You’ve probably already set up your own blog to do that.

But what about all the other blogs you are commenting on? And what about neat things like tagging, RSS feeds or Firefox extension notifications your fellow commenters could also take advantage of if they were coComment users? We know many of you have been encouraging readers or fellow bloggers to register, and we really thank you for that.

We’d now like to ask you - the members of the coComment community - what ideas you have to encourage people to open a coComment account, and, let’s face it, discover the real power of blogging as a conversational medium.

What can we do to help you invite your readers into the big coCo-family?

What, in your experience, has convinced people around you to try and use our service?

And if you haven’t got a coComment account yet, or have one and don’t really use it, we’d love to hear from you too. Why haven’t you tried? Why aren’t you using it, or why did you stop using it?