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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

We will take the servers down for a few minutes between 11am and noon today (Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Madrid time). Sorry for the inconvenience, and watch out for the new coComment!

We just put a new navigation on the site. We tried to make it simpler, clearer and prettier. I hope you like it!

PS: you might have to empty your cache to be sure the style sheet updates, so please do quick a ctrl+reload (shift+reload on OSx) in your browser!

We just published some updates in the Your conversations page, mostly changing the order of the sidebar elements. We hope it will be more usable like that.

There is also a new homepage that will make it clear coComment’s registrations are now open, free, and don’t require any code! Open your account if you haven’t done yet!

We will now work on the navigation with the help of our information architect, to simplify your experience on cocomment.com. If you have some ideas and suggestions don’t hesitate