The official coComment weblog

coComment service will be unavailable today from 9am GMT to 12am GMT for a maintenance.
We will do our best to reduce the maintenance time and get the service up and running as soon as possible.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Today we’re excited to launch coComment 3.0, a major new version that makes it easier, faster, and more fun for you to track conversations on any site or blog. We’re also teaming up with retaggr.com to extend and enhance coComment user profiles.

Being the the first and largest comment tracking and powering engine, coComment continues its commitment to serve the needs of our users and enhance the coComment experience. It is also the first and most popular comment tracking service that allows users to track conversations across any site, independent of coComment’s integration with the site – from blogs and newspapers to social networks. We’re now tracking over 22 million conversations from more than 280,000 sites , with more being added every day!

We look forward to getting your feedback on coComment v3.0, which makes it even easier for you to do what you enjoy most – share opinions, debate ideas, and monitor conversation across the web. Highlights of the new coComment version include:

A new and improved design! We wanted to make it easier for users to discover conversations, find new commenters and what’s hot in online conversations. The new design prominently features rankings in popular categories including groups, sites, tags, and more.

Simple Integration! We made the comment powering and integration process much faster and easier to use. We want the process to be as hassle free and robust as possible.

Navigation and Tools! We simplified the navigation to make key features easily available such as My coComment where all your conversations are and Discover to find new conversations and coCommenters.

We also updated the sidebar is a tool that allows users to comment and navigate around the conversations on sites at the same time.

We also have a new partnership with an exciting company called Retaggr.

Retaggr offers coComment users the ability to create a single, always-updated, interactive business card linked to their coComment conversations and their activity on a wide range of social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and other popular services.

We encourage you to check out coComment v3.0 and please keep the feedback and ideas coming! The coComment Team

Although this new release of Firefox is a major step forward in term of features and performance, it does not come without issues. We were, we confess, more than a little surprised to find that it was not backwards compatible. We’ve been monitoring the development over the last months and hoping that this would be fixed BUT, as we all now know, that did not happen and the final release is not fully backward compatible with Firefox 2.

There are two areas we are working on right now:

- Support for our extension: FF3 introduces a new security mechanism for extensions. We have adapted our code to support this and we will release a FF3 compatible extension very soon.

- Javascript issues: Our service, like many others, makes extensive usage of browser side Javascript. FF3 introduced new rules enforcement as well as major modifications in some basic APIs (like JSON). We are currently working on adapting our code whilst still keeping it compatible with other browsers. We will keep you informed on the progress of this task.

This means that, right now, you will almost certainly experience compatibility issues with coComment if used with Firefox Version 3. We would therefore recommend that you DO NOT UPGRADE yet.

If you absolutely need to use Firefox 3 then you can still use the coComment bookmarklet bookmarklet to capture your comments.

Please stay tuned for more news.

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.