Track your comments, no matter where you make them
Let’s say you track 10 blogs and you regularly post comments on all 10 blogs. Isn’t it a pain in the behind that you have to go around to each of the 10 blogs to participate in the comments?
Well, minutes ago Laurent Haug showed us a service, CoComment, that tracks your comments in one place. This is awesome. Here’s a picture of Laurent showing this to us.
This service is going to be VERY popular with bloggers. Problem is it’s in a closed beta right now. We’re all begging Laurent to get us access.
Hey, TechCrunch, this one is for you. Straight from the Swiss Chalet!
February 4th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Innovative Switzerland!
February 4th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Aha! You should try this wordpress plugin: MyComments: I don’t know if there is an English version. My friends and I use on our blog a very low tech solution, basically a mini-blog where you copy and paste what you are commenting on other places. We call it Distributed Conversation. It’s inspired on Kottke’s Further Afield and t works very well if don’t ming spending a minute on copypasting yourself. As a written record of your own comments it’s great.
February 4th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
HUGE.
/me wants an invite! :D
February 4th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
from coComment, a few invitation codes for Robert’s friends! Each one can only be used once:
2328-4644-7767-3747-0777
7235-6483-2793-0404-2796
7782-8108-3252-2034-7474
0392-8477-5433-2735-5775
3254-4330-5438-4651-7747
1214-4769-4063-9397-7973
6522-7762-7578-2175-7767
3205-8216-4745-3562-6825
February 4th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
So we’ve eventually come full circle. After years of ‘innovation’ the bloggoshpere is now Usenet.
February 4th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Neat. Thanks for the invites.
February 4th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Sounds very very useful, it’s a complete PITA to keep track of comments. One single RSS feed would be good.
February 4th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
I got a key to test coComment… And here I am :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Of course I did not read instructions before use the bookmarklet :-) So… 1) write the comment; 2) click che coComment button; 3) click submit…
This must be refined! Too many clicks: I’m sure I will forget to click twice most of the times :(
February 4th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
There’s a forum on the coComment site you can use to give feedback… I’ve already started a thread with that one, actually, so add a vote! (I’m sure they’ve thought of it already, though…)
February 4th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Excellent concept, and one that is certainly needed in this space. Horaay for coComment
February 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
[...] Protected: CoComment enfin public Now that the cat is out of the hat and that [coComments has been scobleized](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/04/track-your-comments-no-matter-where-you-make-them/), I have to say I’m really very happy to have been a small part of it by putting Nicolas and Laurent in touch. You’re going to love this service! [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Thanks for the invite code!
February 4th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
All the codes are used :(
Anyone got some?
February 4th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Gosh… there really should be a way for bloggers to fix pingbacks once they’ve been sent. Mine shouldn’t be so ugly :-( (Robert: you’re free to clean it up all you wish)
February 4th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Michiel: I’m trying to get more. Thanks.
February 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
You better hurry up, Robert — Nicolas is about to go to bed!
February 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Heh. I am glad the old coblogging idea got a new life:
http://glazkov.com/archive/2004/08/12/214.aspx
February 4th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Here’s 20 more codes:
2427-8315-0396-5886-4143
5319-9776-9526-6508-9535
1634-6341-3482-3310-1538
9630-5793-6328-7477-3305
2846-9668-4433-5368-7109
5346-4269-2937-8978-6847
1860-2182-2007-5932-5066
6088-6389-5525-3960-5416
4294-8406-2508-1011-3210
6758-1447-4197-7780-7761
9241-2674-1186-7295-2757
0987-2954-5876-9027-8429
1743-3238-7047-7273-6436
9852-4981-8879-2702-3439
4610-7058-3375-6828-3090
0840-9701-2963-5281-4495
0816-2853-3367-4131-1321
9223-1841-1055-3033-5951
8837-5464-6409-4386-0651
3717-8019-0530-1501-2261
6348-3928-0638-7390-2807
February 4th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
No problem, Robert:
2903-2742-2555-6670-2746
8631-4913-3753-1566-9569
8737-7252-8325-1069-0399
9260-6873-2490-0717-5644
0785-0726-9747-5703-0921
1522-7048-1534-4629-3636
9305-0595-6696-2854-2973
6691-1553-8559-2782-3508
6731-7257-1421-3673-4861
5069-7370-0839-6703-3413
Each one can only be used once
Have fun
February 4th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
This is cool. Some people are comparing this to usenet but I wouldn’t know. There are probably a significant amount of bloggers who aren’t familiar with usenet but who will enjoy this service. Many thanks!!
February 4th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Good idea, but the codes are used up.
February 4th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Well, don’t forget this is a closed beta testing phase. They can’t open it up to too many people at a time. Just a little patience :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Thanks for the code. This is something that will be real beneficial to me. Before this, I had to bookmark blogs I commented at in a folder and go and check that daily.
February 4th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I sometimes used del.icio.us to keep track of my comments on other blogs, and at times actually kept a local copy of the comment when I had written a lot. A trackback just isn’t the same thing.
February 4th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I’m curious how many platforms will be supported.
February 4th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Ok, this is truly a great thing. A great thing! Thanks for the invite codes, I’ll be a rabid user. :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Great service - thanks for the invites.
February 4th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Don’t forget to feedback in the forums: http://www.cocomment.com/forum/
February 4th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Wow cool. Blogs finally get CMS sync. Real big CMS had this 20 years ago, but never mind with that tired argument. Nifty, I want on this gig. Good thing.
February 4th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
[...] It hasn’t launched yet, but Robert Scoble is already impressed. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Christopher: there is nothing new.
Except the price.
Old school CMS’s cost, what, $100,000 to start? (And then you needed a consultant or two to help you get it and keep it running). Yeah, that was a really fun world, thanks for the reminder!
February 4th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Darn, those codes sure got used up fast!
February 4th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Good
February 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Bill, yeah, Laurent is freaking out. We’re having such a good time here in Switzerland. We’re drinking 109-year-old cognac.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Damn. Viv’s firm’s holiday party is tonight at some swank hotel in SF, I’ll have to see what cognac–or better yet, single malt scotch–they have for us. Tell Laurent, since he should be pleasantly sedated by now, to enjoy it while it lasts. And email me a code ;)
February 4th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
The invites about aren’t necessarily gone. I used the fourth one down in comment 19.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Yeah, that was a really fun world, thanks for the reminder!
Well sure $100,000 (and more) at the Enterprise-level, as mission critical, and then an Army of Consultants to make it work (not just one or two), Oracle, SAP, SAS, Big Iron. I am no apologist for the scamming software industry. But there was a whole raft of middle-tier tech that was affordable. But basically, to get to the grassroots, to get to the blog-level, things take 15 to 20 years? Wow. How so cutting-edge disruptive.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
The mouse was introduced in 1963. It took until 1984 for it to be used in a computer that went mainstream (and it didn’t really go mainstream until the late 80s).
February 4th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
OK, I have to click on the coComment button before I submit this comment. I see the coComment icon beside the Submit Comment button now.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
LOL, I need cocomment to tell me when there’s more available codes! :)
February 4th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Woohoo! Yes, got to try them all, there are still a few codes in there. Thanks Laurent (and Robert!). Checking it out ..!
February 4th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
[...] Within the space of a couple of hours, Om Malik has posted about Kleiner Perkins investing in Cleartrip.com, an Indian travel portal, and Mike Arrington at TechCrunch posts (by way of Scobleizer) a Swiss startup, cocomment.com. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Tracking the COMPLETE CONVERSATION - Part 3
(Updates at the bottom)Stowe Boyd introduces the concept of the Conversational Index:“…successful blogs — ones that were currently viable and vibrant, and those that were on a growth trajectory from their start — shared a common characteristic: T…
February 4th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
[...] I just read on Scobleizer that coComment is launching a service that tracks the comments that you make in the blogosphere. Using coComment, you can: [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Great tool, and since I got the invite here, this should be the first place I coComment. Thanks.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Bill, keep on fishing, I came here AFTER you and found one - close to the bottom, in the last batch.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I tried about half the numbers now–I picked one from the last row before the previous comment–and none worked. Enough for now.
February 4th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
The mouse was introduced in 1963
Doncha have a better example? I am tired of you using that mouse bit for everything. And computers THEMSELVES didn’t go mainstream until late 80s, or rather even later with Dell commodity mode. And that was HARDWARE, software as you know, is more adaptable. But the point on which we both agree, it takes forever for tech to get mainstream functional. Which is why all your ‘disruption’ (even if it’s really new new) has another 20 years on it, if it doesn’t implode in the meantime.
Which gives the Tablet another 15 years or so before it catches on? (Well technically can be traced to Alan Kay in late 60s, but mostly just experimentation until the Fujistu era, and more mainstream with Microsoft).
No doubt you will be harping it up all the while…
February 4th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Back on topic…
I can’t stand invite-only ego-fed insider baseball games as marketing strategies. Bleech, if it’s that good and can scale, don’t only groupthink handpick, grant to the widest possible audience, and make work for the most scenarios.
February 4th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Hey, I got one to work — thanks!
February 4th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
More info on the ideas behind cocomment:
http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/english/513/cocomment
February 4th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Fooie. This was one major component of a service I’ve been working on. Though I was implementing it for a different purpose: As a method of stopping comment spam dead in its tracks.
February 4th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Help me understand why better and complete support for RSS Comments in more blogging systems and feed readers isn’t a better solution? (DasBlog and SharpReader for starters)
February 4th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
[...] Scoblizer linked up this one from his jaunt in a Swiss chalet. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Thanks Robert for pointing this out. I’ve been doing something along the lines of this on my blog through a hack a put together. This seems like a much more elegant way of achieving it.
February 4th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Sweet. This service would rock. Thanks, I used one of the invite codes from the comments here
February 4th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
[...] Bumped into a still in closed beta service called cocomment via Scoble. These guys are doing exactly this and I must confess that I already love it. Hope they send me their invite soon enough [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
[...] CoComment, a comment aggregator for bloggers has been given rave reviews by David Scroble. Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch is a bit skeptical but sees the idea. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
This looks very similar to what Geof Morris was talking about in Personal Comment Aggregation and what I followed up with Postmarks. I was so close to writing my own bookmarklet this weekend to do it myself. Hopefully this will work out and save me some time.
February 4th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
It’s like winning the lottery. One of the codes worked for me. Cool, can’t mess with it now, but I am looking forward to this.
February 4th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
It doesn’t seem to track my comments…Ahhhh, finally!!! Right after I clicked on the bookmarklet I saw the cocomment icon appear next to the submit button…..cooooooool
February 4th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
[...] In class today, a cohort brought up the tedium of posting and then following comments on different sites. I was thinking about that when I came across this post on Robert Scoble’s blog about the new blog comments service Co-comment. Co-comment captures comments through a browser bookmarklet as you post them on individual blogs and then aggregates them to a portal. The service then lets you add comments that you’ve left on other blogs to your own blog and also provides an RSS feed for your to follow comments through a blog aggregator. Co-comment is in closed beta and I’m eagerly awaiting its open launch so I can play around with it. You can sign up for notification of its opening here. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
The fact that the other commenters also have to be cocomment users and that cocomment is in closed beta so you can’t really encourage others to try to make use of it really makes it hard to see the value in the service at the time being. In fact, short of it becoming ubiquitious, it will always fail to sufficiently solve the problem of knowing if and when your comments have been responded to. All you’ll really know is if other cocomment users have responded, and you’ll still have to visit the site to see if non users have responded. Really doesn’t provide what we need, something more akin to a rss feed that you can sub to for comments on every post you make.
February 4th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Just looked at this and read all of the comments to Roberts blog, We will see an explosion of information and individual responses to that data, in short, the whole world has been talking to each other now in a format that will not go away. coComment will only add fuel and power to the Geeks secret weapon: understanding!!
February 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Thank you very much. This looks like a very useful tool.
February 4th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Christopher: this isn’t a marketing strategy — it’s called testing and improving the service.
February 4th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Gives us a few more invite codes? :)
February 4th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
[...] Via Scoblelizer beta cocomment web services [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
[...] I managed to somehow snag a invitation code for coComment that worked from Scoble so I’ll let you know how that works out. coComment is a brand new service that lets you manage your comments on other blogs from a central location so you better follow up on them. It’s a great idea, and I’m excited to see how the execution works. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Someone please send me an invitation code: andreizilla.pub@gmail.com.
I really want to test this. Thanks!
February 4th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
[...] Tracking comments that you make at a blog has always been a hassle. The way I usually do it is by making a comment and then bookmark the article with a tag of “comment.” It has worked for me, but obviously does not provide much information and does not notify me of replies. But now there is a new service that has been causing quite a stir in the blogosphere called, coComment. Robert Scoble seems love it and TechCrunch likes the core idea of it. coComment is a free service, currently in private beta, that lets you track comments that you or others leave on blogs that you have commented on. [...]
February 4th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Anthony: well, keep an eye open and maybe you’ll be there next time they do. Maybe they should open up a subscription service for the beta-testing? I think wordpress.com did that before they launched: “here’s my e-mail address, please put me in the pool for the lucky draw next time you’re ready to take in more testers”. (Actually, I’m going to suggest that straight away in the forum.)
Yikes! I almost forgot to press my coComment bookmark again :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
I hope so - thanks for dropping them a line about it.
I’ve been experimenting with a similar idea and was excited to see someone put an app like this together.
February 4th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Anthony: can you access the forum posts if you’re not a tester? What parts of the coComment.com site do you get to see?
February 4th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Steph, Anthony: you can alrerady subscribe for beta-testing on the homepage at http://www.cocomment.com . We will send you invitation codes and we promise to open the service asap. Many thanks for all your feedbacks guys!
February 4th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Ah, good to know — I guess I didn’t see it because I’m already signed in :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
[...] Update: I got in! I used an invite from scobleizer. Try 1860-2182-2007-5932-5066 or 5346-4269-2937-8978-6847. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Hah! I feel like I’ve just won the lottery.
Someone needs to make a mashup where you can win invites to hot new web services. :)
Thanks nicolasD
February 5th, 2006 at 12:14 am
lol Anthony.
Are you going to share
February 5th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Okay… Now that I have an invite, I see this will blow up and people will sell their cars for invites. Who will be first to start a coComment invite spooler? Who will sell their invites?
It doesn’t display the article and blog right for my blog… I don’t know why either. I have a stock WP install. I posted a bug in the forum: http://www.cocomment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25
February 5th, 2006 at 12:43 am
I got it from Andrei’s trackback. See #77
February 5th, 2006 at 12:56 am
already used…
February 5th, 2006 at 2:24 am
4829-0427-4849-8166-9231
9242-2151-2260-3868-6752
2767-3652-3286-6151-2864
9843-5276-6273-6027-0561
7578-3800-6665-0465-1143
6726-6802-7958-6957-8842
0720-3537-8821-8170-8164
5533-8940-1580-1309-8423
3069-4116-7727-3746-0935
2564-2720-2372-4792-8706
8715-2862-6788-6752-3825
4824-7797-6804-2663-1983
9220-4265-3366-0078-4734
9852-3075-8150-8554-7297
0945-8999-8286-3220-4915
8666-9614-3725-5349-2803
(via http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/english/513/cocomment)
February 5th, 2006 at 2:51 am
[...] I saw an interesting post from Scoble, the title had my interest: “Track Your Comments, no Matter Where You Make Them” [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Thanks for the invite codes. Nifty little thing this!
February 5th, 2006 at 2:52 am
[...] (Spotter: Scoble) [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 3:07 am
I’ll post some more codes as I get them here:
http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/english/513/cocomment
(check the comments)
February 5th, 2006 at 4:08 am
Coco nuts, invitation code has been already used !
Real blogs allow comments and inescapably comments lead to conversations (notwithstanding some many columnists who still succeed to palm their more or less authoritative monologues off on the readers). But the ecosystem has tampered with 2 important di…
February 5th, 2006 at 5:50 am
[...] A new feature being worked on is CoComment as pointed out by Scoble. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Testing out coComment
Don’t you hate it when you comment on a blog and you have to revisit it to see all the comments left by other people? This can get really difficult when you currently comment on over 10 blogs or so. Isn’t it a pain to have to revisit each blog just t…
February 5th, 2006 at 5:59 am
On behalf of the whole cocomment team, I just wanted to thank everyone for their posts and feedback (and of course, special thanks to the Scobleizer!) The response has been far greater than we could have imagined, and we’re all really excited!
Just wanted to let everyone know that the only reason cocomment is a closed beta right now is that we wanted to make sure the service wouldn’t crash under heavy use and spoil the fun for everyone. We’re working really hard to incorporate all your feedback and suggestions, and we promise to open it up for everyone very soon!
Thanks again and happy coCommenting!
February 5th, 2006 at 6:00 am
[...] coComment verspricht die Lösung dieses Problems: Ein Portaldienst mit Gratis-Registration, der dem User ermöglicht, alle eigenen Kommentare und die Kommentare darauf web-basiert mit den Grundfunktionen “Capture”, “Share” und “Alert” zu verwalten, zu verfolgen und mit anderen Usern zu teilen. Obwohl der Dienst erst im Beta-Stadium (per Einladungscode) ist, hat er an der LIFT 06 in Genf viel Aufsehen erregt. Scobleizer und weitere prominente Blogger sind des Lobes voll. TechCrunch fragt sich, ob ein Portaldienst mit Registrierung wirklich die geeignete Lösung dieser Problematik ist und bemängelt, dass noch keine Verwaltung von Trackbacks enthalten ist. Viele möchten gerne am Beta teilnehmen, die Einladungscodes die einer der Entwickler veröffentlicht hat sind alle verbraucht. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 6:01 am
[...] After literally tripping over this at Scobleizer I saw that Robert was talking about coComment which is a way of tracking your comments that you post on the blogs around the blogosphere. It sounded like a good idea, so over to coComment I went and had a bit of a look around. I clicked on ‘people’ and saw that NicolasD was rather large in the tag cloud there and thought that would be a good example to choose being one of the largest names in the cloud. I saw that NicolasD had a few conversations he had commented on and one was Scobleizer so I clicked that and saw that he had commented on Scobleizer with a list of some invite ID’s for Scoble’s readers, I refreshed the Scobleizer and now saw a list of keys. Cut and Paste and a form later I was in. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 6:14 am
[...] Le service n’est pas encore lancé mais Robert Scoble est déjà impressionné. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 6:22 am
This is interesting. It only took a day until I got an invite :P
February 5th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Hi Robert. I’m testing out CoComment on your blog - Let’s see how this works.
February 5th, 2006 at 6:46 am
This comment is made with cocomment
February 5th, 2006 at 6:47 am
An invite I got in the mail: 5526-6753-7940-8140-1620
February 5th, 2006 at 6:55 am
I’ve just got an invitation and testing it right now. Thanks for this post.
February 5th, 2006 at 6:58 am
First Take: Cocomment Takes Comments Out Of The Dark
Two of my buds at the Web 2.0 Workgroup, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, beat me to the punch on Cocomment. Robert is enthusiastic while Michael is more lukewarm. The idea is to collect all the comments that you leave
February 5th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Track Your Blog Comments in One Place
Fresh from oven, a new service from Switzerland called CoComment allows you to track your blog comments in one place. It’s going to be popular with bloggers. It makes tracking comments so much easier because you only have to look in one centraliz…
February 5th, 2006 at 7:32 am
[...] I saw an interesting post from Scoble, the title had my interest: “Track Your Comments, no Matter Where You Make Them” [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 7:51 am
Good stuff, great start to solving probably the single biggest problem with the “conversations” part of the blogging world. Woudl be nice if the button click order was left-to-right though. :)
Leaving this comment with CoComment. Nice.
February 5th, 2006 at 7:53 am
CoComment
Mehr oder weniger aus dem Nichts heraus erschien gestern zuerst bei Scoble, dann bei Solutionswatch und später auch auf Techcrunch mit CoComment ein Dienst, der es ermöglicht, Weblogkommentare zusätzlich zum Weblog, auf dem man kommentiert, auch zen…
February 5th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Thanks for the heads-up Robert. It was easier to install all the components of Co-Comment than I expected. Now will have to evaluate it in the field.
So, co-commenting here.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Some invites I got:
6483-1938-7540-0547-1881
9219-7076-0389-5856-7675
8229-7432-0961-8061-1121
3589-9761-9837-3788-0450
February 5th, 2006 at 8:46 am
[...] Robert Scoble is impressed with it so far, but Mike Arrington of Techcrunch seems a bit disaapointed, because of the comlexity of using it to comment. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 8:58 am
coComment fixes blog commenting
coComment is a very nifty new site that solves a common problem amongst those of us who keep track of a few hundred blogs… keeping track of where you’ve commented!
As an example, here are mine. Very, very slick - I’m already in love….
February 5th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Robert, you’re right - coComment is onto something here… I went to their site after reading your post, signed up to receive future information on their site and the next morning I had an invite code.
Fantastic tool for bloggers!
February 5th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Just installed coComment and it looks great! Hope they can include ExpressionEngine (my choice for blogging) in their list soon!
February 5th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Hopla, subscribed, tested it and did a run on a test blog on TypePad. Great! Going to blog about it tomorrow.
February 5th, 2006 at 9:58 am
Wow. I signed up with my email address and I just got my code. I’m really exited about this; it sucks to ‘lose’ comments and track replies.
Testing right now!
February 5th, 2006 at 10:44 am
The concept is simply superb. But I just wonder if there couldn’t be a better way to use CoComment than as a bookmark.
Everytime I need to comment, I have to move from the comment area to the bookmark and then back to the comment area. Simply increasing the amplitude of the movement if we talk of Fitts’ Law.
February 5th, 2006 at 10:47 am
There’s a greasemonkey script that allows you to forget about clicking your bookmark :-)
February 5th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Thanks for giving more codes!!
February 5th, 2006 at 11:10 am
This is a pretty neat idea. I just got my code via e-mail, so I’m testing it out now
February 5th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Being as responsive as the team was in this thread is a good sign in my book–an invitation was waiting in the mailbox when I came online this morning. My comments page will be at:
http://www.billsaysthis.com/content/misc/webcomments.php
February 5th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Great idea, thanks for the heads up. Will be interested to see if it becomes widely adompted. I agree that the clicking twice thing is a serious issue.
February 5th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Lee: download firefox, install the greasemonkey extension, and then install the greasemonkey script for cocomment. You can ditch your bookmark after that.
February 5th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Lost in Conversation: no longer!
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce SchneierIn the summer of 2005, I spent a week or so on an idea of mine that I planned to launch onto the web
February 5th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Great, I finally managed to catch a free invitation code before the end of the afternoon as expected and very proud to see my neighbours Swisscom devising nice w2.0 tools… Thx to Scobleizer and all snowboarder friends’
February 5th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
I Like coComment
At least after the initial installation. I saw mention of coComment over at Scoble’s blog but had too tough a time getting one of the posted invite codes to work. This morning, though, one was waiting in my inbox. These Swiss guys are using the same i…
February 5th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
[...] La verdad es que, al estar cerrado y sólo permitir suscripciones vía invitaciones, no pensaba que iba a ser tan fácil probar el nuevo servicio de cocomment. Lo descubrí anoche leyendo el post de Robert Scoble y esta mañana en el mismo post publicaban varias invitaciones y una de ellas me ha funcionado a la perfección. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I just got in! This is my first post!
February 5th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Just signed up.
CoComment has one of those cloud mashups of blogs that people are commenting on - seems that this is the #1 followed by the techcrunch article.
I submitted my email yesterday and found an invite code this morning - have they started to just send out codes to all who ask or are they being more selective?
February 5th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] This is really cool. I first saw this on Scoble’s site and then on TDavid’s site. When both of them blog about something, there is a very high chance that I will be interested in whatever it is. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
One thing that’s missing, IMHO, is the ability to register your comments with several IDs. I’d like to have my personal ID, but also define it as part of a group ebiquity ID. We could put code to link the ebiquity group ID comments on our ebiquity group blog.
February 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Why can’t comments be crawled just like blog posts? Just look around for the same name/URL combinations and create a page/feed. It seems a bit simpler than a bookmarklet…
February 5th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
[...] Scoble points us to a cool new website called coComment; it makes so much sense! I thought I was the only idiot wandering around blogs, posting comments and then having to manually go back and see if there was a response. Apparently not… [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Just the number of comments indicates the needs for this product. I’d love an invite if they come open again!
February 5th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
[...] Its currently still in beta and the invites are hard to come by, i got one off a fellow blogger, i think the best place to get hold of one is on the popular Scroblizer blog. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
[...] ארינגטון, סקובל ורימס כותבים על CoComments שירות מעקב אחרי התגובות שמשאירים משתמשים בבלוגים. לחיצה על Bookmarklet קטנה לאחר השארת תגובה בבלוג, תעביר את תוכן התגובה לדף התגובות האישי של המשתמש, ותאפשר לו לעקוב שם אחרי תגובות שהושארו לתגובה שלו. אותו משתמש יכול גם לעקוב אחר התגובות לתגובות שלו ב-RSS, ובעתיד גם בדרכים נוספות. את רשימת התגובות הוא יכול גם לייבא בתיבה קטנה לבלוג שלו. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Love this implementation. Hope they expand soon to include Flickr, Digg, Slashdot, Metafilter, and other big watercooler-type discussion sites.
February 5th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
[...] Thanks to a post on Scobleizer, I’ve been trying out CoComment. [...]
February 5th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
So, coComment brings to blogs what LiveJournal has had for years?
And this is considered innovation? How about “about freaking time”?
Bleh.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
It seems (to me at least) that the ones who reply to you need to be CoComment users to get comment to show up as a response on the CoComment tracking. Even so at the least you get a list of all the places you left a comment.
And I second Bill; I would like to see Digg, Slashdot, Metafilter, and the rest supported as well.
February 5th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
CoComment Gets Half the Job Down
Okay, I track blogs. I always have. It’s not a big deal, it’s part of PR and what I hope to convey to others in the industry and the agency life - that it’s not just enough to be tracking the media, but you need to get your Pubsub / Technorati / Blo…
February 5th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
If you’re looking for the coComment Greasemonkey script, you can find it over at: http://www.solutionwatch.com/313/comment-tracking-with-cocomment/
February 6th, 2006 at 12:36 am
[...] And here is where he said it: http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/04/track-your-comments-no-matter-where-you-make-them/#comments [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 12:41 am
What a great idea. So I got the invite. Let’s test her out :)
February 6th, 2006 at 1:22 am
[...] After my short bleg this morning I’ve been fortunate enough to score an invite to the new, invitation only beta test for CoCommenter, which has gained a fair bit of buzz across the blogosphere in the last 24 hours. [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Lets hope CoComment fairs better than Gravatar - I’ve been trying for six months to sign up for that, and I still can’t get it’s servers to send me an email… and it doesn’t seem I’m the only one…
February 6th, 2006 at 3:32 am
So, it seems that only those replies from fellow coCommenters are going to show in our ‘Conversations’? Let us hope this thing really takes off, lest it be merely a personal bookmarking service, and not the ‘fluent’, great leap forward in Web 2.0 ‘conversation’. A terrific and encouraging start, but will only be as good as its uptake given that limitation. The availability of an RSS feed of said Conversations page is an excellent feature, though.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:48 am
Oh, and far be it from me to use this as a test forum, but rather ironically, the coComment bookmarklet doesn’t seem to be working for me (yet to see anything to say that my last comment was captured). Any chance the NoScript Firefox plugin can hinder its use?
February 6th, 2006 at 3:51 am
@oipic: since the bookmarklet starts out with:
javascript:void((function()
I’d say that’s a big YES.
It’s working fine for me :)
February 6th, 2006 at 4:01 am
This seems very cool. Will see how it tracks.
Molly
February 6th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Grrrrrr.
I can’t get this to work.
Molly
February 6th, 2006 at 5:55 am
But, this is only useful if everyone else uses it - and hence it’s doomed to fail. What they should have done is track comments from anyone and let cocomment users know - not just track comments by other cocomment users. I suppose they think that this will speed adoption, but no-one likes being forced to use a service. Better to make it useful on day 1, and wait for word to spread.
February 6th, 2006 at 6:34 am
[...] Der Grund dafür lag wohl in den Trackbacks zu Scobleizer und TechCrunch sowie darin, dass cocomment gestern das heisseste Thema in der Blogosphäre war. Am Abend rückte das Thema auf Nummer 1 mit dem Originalbeitrag von Scobleizer als Titel, mein Beitrag war immer noch im Thread sichtbar: [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 7:05 am
@James&Jasone: “this is only useful if everyone else uses it”
I don’t think you quite get the concept, it tracks YOUR comments, and alerts you to comments others make in the same thread, and allows you to share YOUR comments via RSS etc.
So it’s useful the moment you start using it. In fact, its my new favorite webservice.
February 6th, 2006 at 7:17 am
[...] Without doubt, the hottest thing EVERYWHERE now is CoComment. You’ve not yet heard of it, I’m surprised! Everybody and I mean everybody is enjoying CoComment and already it is being hailed as the biggest web 2.0 innovation of this year. Scobleizer, TechCrunch, BlogHerald, Problogger and half the other bloggers in Town are enjoying it and it’s striking Memeorandum, Blogniscent and many other tech news sites. CoComment is owned and run by the Swiss Innovation Company - SwissCom [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 7:58 am
As an FYI to those looking for coComment invite codes. I went to the web site and simply put in my email address to be notified when the service became more available to the public and almost immediately I had an invite code in my inbox.
I can’t wait to start trying it….oh yeah, I am right now.
February 6th, 2006 at 7:59 am
Whoop! Whoop! Rampant meme alert! W00t W00t
February 6th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Well I just got my invite code. I am trying the bookmarklet on this post first!!
February 6th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Jasone: My bad, should’ve read the FAQ.
I just saw comments popping up left and right and assumed they were just ’scraping’ the page or something to catch replies. I didn’t realise this many people were already invited. Then again, I coulda known by the amount of time it took to get my code.
hmmm.
I know: just sign everyone up! ;)
February 6th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Just another random comment testing coComment using Scobleizer’s blog as a guinea pig. :)
February 6th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Any more invitations available?
February 6th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Hey. I would really like an invitation. I would like to review this for my blog and try it out myself. Can someone spare an invite? You can email me at:
geekologist@gmail.com
February 6th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
A few more invitation codes for your pleasure:
http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/english/519/some-codes
February 6th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
CoComment..
Superb idea with a great implementation - Track the comments you leave on blogs wherever they may be.
Checkout CoComment for more info.
…
February 6th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
I have also dabbled with this idea (see GoJot.com). I wonder, though. Why not simply scrape blog comment feeds for content? Then you could dispense with bookmarklets. This page has comment RSS, for example.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
[...] Scoble posts about a new service called CoComment that lets you keep track of all the comments that you make on other blogs that you read, and any other responses that may follow. It’s a great idea. I tend to lose track of comments that I leave sometimes, and this looks like a nice way to have one single, centralized place to keep track of all of them and follow up if necessary. [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
[...] I was doing some random blog reading and came across this entry by Scobleizer. [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
me wants one too, kindly??
February 6th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
[...] Without doubt, the hottest thing EVERYWHERE now is CoComment. You’ve not yet heard of it, I’m surprised! Everybody and I mean everybody is enjoying CoComment and already it is being hailed as the biggest web 2.0 innovation of this year. Scobleizer, TechCrunch, BlogHerald, Problogger and half the other bloggers in Town are enjoying it and it’s striking Memeorandum, Blogniscent and many other tech news sites. CoComment is owned and run by the Swiss Innovation Company - SwissCom [...]
February 6th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I got an invitation code by signing up for the beta at the coComment site. The email with the code arrived the following day (Monday).
February 7th, 2006 at 12:24 am
CoComments seems pretty nifty.
February 7th, 2006 at 2:37 am
[...] Scoble talks about cocomment, and I have to admit it looks really really nice. [...]
February 7th, 2006 at 2:47 am
[...] Hit Bringers:: Digg - Approx 50 Atariboy - 15 Scobleizer - 7 [...]
February 7th, 2006 at 5:24 am
Neat. Quite a coincidence… as I’m writing this from Berne, home of coComments.
February 7th, 2006 at 5:56 am
[...] Я обычно осторожен в восторгах, но этот новый сервис обещает быть достаточно полезным для всех, кто пишет комментарии куда бы то ни было: в блоги, в форумы и т.п. Сервис называется CoComment и я изначально подсмотрел про них у Скобла, который пишет, что ребята пока в закрытой бете. [...]
February 7th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Can someone send me an invite code please: mrd3sai [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks in advance!
February 7th, 2006 at 6:12 am
I’m currently in the beat, and it’s a pretty nice thing. If I was a more active commenter I could definitely see the benefits of this, but as of now it’s got more novelty value than anything.
February 7th, 2006 at 6:25 am
This is pretty damn cool and it doesn’t look like you need to wait long to get an invite code after signing up now.
February 7th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Haarball: you might see it makes you a more active commenter once you start using it. If you track your comments, you’re suddenly motivated to
a) reply to what was replied to your comments
b) comment more liberally because it doesn’t get lost
February 7th, 2006 at 8:42 am
You’re right on both accounts, Steph - I’m actually actively looking for stuff to post on now.
Although that’s partly cause I’d like to get onto the top 10 which in turn will do some good for my blog.
February 7th, 2006 at 8:53 am
I’m definitely finding that, Steph. More of my free time sucked away! *g*
February 7th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Haarball: I’m not sure being in the top ten will really do things for your blog. Your coComment ID isn’t linked to your blog, unless of course you comment like mad on your blog…
February 7th, 2006 at 9:11 am
You’re right, it seems. It’s undeniably compulsive, though, so I won’t be able to stop.
February 7th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Hey, all of the invite codes here have been used already, can someone invite me? josue at madeincr.com
cheers
February 7th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
got one, thanks
February 7th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
I found that you can easily receive your own invitation code by leaving your e-mail address in the dialog on the coComment home page.
I also found that the protocol is pretty sensitive to cookie settings, so I am using the successful entry of this post as demonstration that I got it working. I am blogging this, of course …
February 7th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Hey can I get an invite too?
My e-mail is stephen63 at gmail.com
Thanks
February 8th, 2006 at 2:16 am
could someone invite me, too? i wrote an email to them as suggested, but didn´t hear anything..
kruetzmann {addd} gmail.com
thanks
February 8th, 2006 at 10:50 am
According to a post on the coComment Team Blog (http://www.cocomment.com/teamblog/?p=22), they’ve stopped sending out invitations until they address some performance and scaling issues.
Ansgar: You need to go to the site and simply deposit your e-mail address in the dialog box toward the lower right. They have been pretty quick to provide invitation codes in response to those.
I don’t recall seeing an invite-a-friend arrangement.
February 8th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
[...] After reading about coComment in a couple of different places (Scobleizer, TechCrunch, Solution Watch) I decided to check it out. (It’s an invitation only beta right now, but I got an invitation the same day I requested one.) I think it’s awesome. [...]
February 9th, 2006 at 1:04 am
[...] Blogsphere seems to have reacted rather positively to the launch of the blog comment aggregation service - CoComment. While Scoble’s positive feedback perhaps got it all started, even Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, who was initially apprehensive about the service, changed his opinion on using it [...]
February 9th, 2006 at 7:10 am
[...] I really like coComment. It makes it easier for me to track my comments, and I have been using it for a little more than a week thanks to these posts. The problem I have with commenting is that it takes me away from being able to scan things. In order to follow conversations, I would need to remember to visit the site again. That was just a nuisance. I now no longer need to visit sites independently to follow the conversation, as I can merely go to coComment and see all of my various comments. It is still not quite complete–Blogger blogs that use Haloscan do not work with it as of this writing. Nonetheless, I like it since it allows me to continue to exist from within the confines of my aggregator. Go sign up for it! [...]
February 9th, 2006 at 11:42 am
[...] After the pretty interesting exploration of Comment Aggregation with Mr. Morris, I found it interesting when I saw coComment on Scoble’s blog (and later MyComments in another post). [...]
February 10th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Linking the conversational threads
What many people don’t appreciate about blogging is that its power comes from how blogs are interlinked, not the blogs on their won. Individual blogs can be interesting. However it is the linking and commenting on other bloggers’ posts and…
February 14th, 2006 at 11:42 am
[...] Enter CoComment, another one of the closed beta-du-jours, a site that aims to do it for you (and track popular conversations, vis-a-vis popular posts). You read a few of the comments (Solution Watch, Tech Crunch, Scoble): it’s going to be “HUGGEEE!!”, everyone needs it, filling a void, it’s a simple idea that will work. [...]
February 14th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Ah, may be a little exaggerating, it depends on how many members does cocomment has too.
February 14th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
[...] coComment is another one of the closed beta-du-jours, a site that aims to do it for you (and track popular conversations, vis-a-vis popular posts). You read a few of the comments (Solution Watch, Tech Crunch, Scoble) and it sounds like the second coming of sliced bread: it’s going to be “HUGGEEE!!”, everyone needs it, filling a void, it’s a simple idea that will work. [...]