The official coComment weblog

We have just released a new version with lots of new features and improvements:

• Improved performance: Significant increase in speed while browsing. Reduced time of server access via coComment extension and new caching mechanism for JavaScript loading.
• New Home Page: Visual and easy to understand presentation of coComment features.
• Improved conversation pages: Improved layout of “my conversations” page, including direct links to blogs/sites and default link from extension to “my conversations”.
• Outsourced conversations: New wizards for using coComment to power conversations on your blog/site, including seamless integration with Blogger with just few clicks.
• New version of coComment extension: Enhanced sidebar functionality, with ability for easy and simple browsing of conversations within the sidebar. This feature is available for Firefox only, but the IE version is coming soon.
• Version 2.4 includes many more improvements in addition to the ones above, so please come and check it out!

Your feedback is welcome, please send us your opinions and tells us what you like, what you’d like to see next, and anything else you’d like to share about V2.4!

Thanks
The coComment Team

We will start now an upgrade of the service database. Although we are making all what is possible to keep the service up, you might experience some slow down or disruption in the next 2 hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Christophe

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

We have started the migration to coComment V2.

The initial step consists of a huge update of our live database.

Although this does not affect the functionalities of the current production site running coComment V1, you might experience some slow response times from the service.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but it is worth it !

Christophe

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 will migrate our servers to a new network infrastructure in order to get better performance and reliability. This operation was previously planned but canceled for technical reasons.

The operation will start Wednesday 23rd at 7:00 am CET (4:00 am New York, 23:00 Los Angeles, 6:00 pm Tokyo)

The maximum estimated time for this upgrade is 4 hours, however, we will try to make this interruption as short as possible. Although we will not be receiving your comments during the shutdown, the sites integrating coComment will not be affected by additional latency as we will provide a temporary server to respond to the coComment client.

This blog will remain up and available at http://blog.cocomment.com. We will keep you informed of the progress of the operation.

This is the first major step in extending our platform capacity. Some hardware and software upgrade are planned for June and July.

Thanks for your understanding !

Christophe.

It’s always a tough decision as to whether to tell people you’re launching a new version of your product or to, instead, wait until it’s finished and unveil it with a flourish.

We’ve opted for the former for one simple reason; we want feedback and input into what we’re doing. Nicolas Dengler and I (Matt Colebourne) presented some of the mockups, ideas and concepts at the re:publica conference in Berlin. We got a good reaction to the overall concept but also some great ideas on the execution that will impact the product that we deliver.

If you’re an active coComment user please do let us know how you think the product should be developed and taken forward. We will also be offering a beta test programme to some users (you need to volunteer) to get early feedback on various aspects.

So, please do get in touch. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like and what you’d like to see in the near future.

Also, come and visit us at Next07 in Hamburg this week and Innovate Europe in Zaragoza. We’ll be there in our distinctive new T-Shirts !

Cheers,

Matt.

coComment, the leading window to internet conversations, wants to inform its users about a major new version of its technology. Among other improvements, the new version includes two key developments: integration with Technorati and Privacy functionality.

Technorati Integration

The Technorati feature is a seamless integration of coComment with Technorati profiles. The integration allows you to: own and manage your own blog and blogs you’ve claimed on Technorati in coComment (i.e. edit blog and conversation titles; obtain comments in the blogosphere and on blogs indexed by Technorati, etc.). The integration also enables you to get your coComment profile associated with the content page returned by Technorati (sidebar) and to get all comments you post indexed by Technorati.

We believe users will find these features useful as they provide increased visibility and ease of managing and editing both blogs and comments. We encourage your feedback regarding these features as well as input on other functionalities we could implement in order to serve users’ needs.

Privacy Function

The power of the coComment extension is that it allows you to automatically track your comments without having to do anything. Privacy settings allow you to mark certain sites or areas as ‘private’. This means that coComment will not track any comments you’ve entered there.

To activate this, visit the site you want to mark as ‘private’ and click on the ‘Blacklist’ button. You can then delete all existing comments, block any new ones and mark this site as ‘private’ for the future.

We also offer the ability for you to propose that the site/area should be on the global ‘Blacklist’ which means that no comment will be collected there for any coComment user.

Version 0.8.1 was deployed this morning. It doesn’t bring you any new functions, but hopefully better stability (it was majorly a code face-lift).

Let us know if you notice anything funky! (As in, particularly, things that used to work and don’t work anymore — we know it can sometimes happen.)

technorati tags:cocomment, update

For the last few hours I’ve been using an updated extension that fixes some problems we have spotted over the weekend. We will make the formal release tomorrow, but I wanted you to be able to grab it already and have uploaded it to our servers.

The updated extension contains the following fixes:

• The status bar icon now links again to your conversations page. There previously was no direct and quick way to access that anymore.
• When there is a conversation for a page, which is not visible on the page itself, the toolbar button now shows the correct status by turning orange
• The toolbar button settings are now correctly persisted across browser sessions. Users that prefer to combine the bookmarklet with the extension no longer get a reappearing toolbar button when restarting the browser.

I know some of you have been waiting for these improvements. So, now you no longer have to wait

UPDATE (July 25th, 2006): A new version has now been formally released