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CoComment actually works now!

Jul 20, 2006
Author: James
Technology
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To those of you who comment on a LOT of blogs as I do, and find it VERY hard to remember what you commented on and where… a valuable resource called cocomment just got a HELL of a lot more valuable.

Before, when you left a comment on a blog, your side of the conversation was saved in your conversation log on the cocomment website. The only other comments that showed up were those made by other cocomment users, until today.

Today cocomment released support for “non-member” comment logging on tracked conversations. Now if you comment on a blog and someone comes in and responds but is not a member of cocomment, their reply will show up in your comment log.

The coolest of these new features is that you can track a conversation even if you don’t comment and you can even start a “comment” section on pages that have no commenting options! So the next time you find yourself on a news article without comments and you’re a member of cocomment, just start up your own comments section and blast away!

4 Comments

  1. Lloyd D Budd  •  Jul 20, 2006 @3:54 PM

    Co.mments still does it better in my opinion, because of the quality of the news feed it creates: full comment, clear authorship, and ease of getting back to the blog post. I was also annoyed by receiving my password in the “announcement” email.

  2. Rich  •  Jul 20, 2006 @4:16 PM

    the quality of the news feed it creates: full comment, clear authorship, and ease of getting back to the blog post.

    coComments also generates the full comment, with clear authorship and an easy way of getting back to the original entry. :)
    The title shows the name of the entry, and the commenter - and acts as a link to the comment - and the body is the comment itself. I actually prefer it to co’mment’s because they also give you an unecessary excerpt from the actual blog post.

  3. Easton Ellsworth  •  Jul 21, 2006 @10:47 AM

    Good comments, everyone. I think it’s evident that coComment and co.mments both could become more customizable and versatile. I’ve grabbed James’s thoughts and put them alongside those of 21 others regarding coComment’s latest improvements.

  4. Lloyd D Budd  •  Jul 21, 2006 @3:01 PM

    Actually, Rich coComment does not clearly show authorship in many cases, and and I have to jump through a hoop (link to coComment’s site) to get back to the author’s site. I see entries like the following now in my news reader:

    Feed: coComment: Comments related to foolswisdom
    Item: (unknown) >> What 22 Bloggers Are Saying About the New coComment: Pros and Cons (BusinessBlogWire)

    (unknown) says:

    Final straw: the toolbar icon reinstalls itself each time I restart Firefox, even after I’ve removed it. This is crossing the line from annoying to just plain stupid. I’m done. I’m no longer a coComment user.

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