I used to stand on the hill outside of the house where I grew up, shouting to hear the echo come back . . . now that coComment has arrived, I don’t have to drive 100 miles when I feel the need to hear my echo anymore.
I had my first coComment experience the other night when NZAlan left a comment and took it with him too. That was the night we moved servers for Successful-Blog, and unfortunately about 10 comments were lost. Alan returned the next day and asked about the lost comments. I told him the story. He was able to take his comments from the night before and put them back. WAY COOL!
What Is coComment About?
Duncan Rileyat the Blog Herald has written an indepth review on his test of coComment in Beta Version. Duncan starts by admitting he was a disbeliever. Heââ¬â¢s tired of all of the hype around Web 2.0 applications. Can’t say as I blame him. Most are way over done, clumsy, or don’t even work. But once Duncan worked with it, he ended up putting coComment on his personal blog.
What changed his mind? He gave these reasons.
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The concept
The simplicity
The lack of bad stuff
I let him fill you in on the details himself. He’s the one who has actually worked with the app and he explains the features and benefits quite well.
What’s the Verdict?
Here’s snip of what Duncan says:
If I was scoring it, maybe 9.5 out of 10. Iââ¬â¢ll hold the .5 back because the service still has a few bugs (it is in beta after all), but kudos where its due, Iââ¬â¢m likely to be using this service fairly regularly.
Read the review. It answered every question I had. Then click this image link to visit the site.
Thereââ¬â¢s a box on the front page of the coComment site where you can request an invitation to test coComment for yourself.
–ME ââ¬ÅLizââ¬? Strauss
Been testing it as well since Sunday night and although it still needs some spit and polishing I think it’s one of the best blogging tools I’ve come across.
It’s such a simple idea (keeping all your comments at other blogs in the one place) and for folks like me who like to comment, I want to monitor what’s going on because “sometimes half the shows in the comments” 😉
ââ¬Åsometimes half the shows in the commentsââ¬?
I heard a famous philosopher named HART said that.
EVERYONE SHOUTS: HART!
Hey, I think I’ve heard that before–maybe that should be the new tagline at Successful Blog.
I just got my invitation, but I have so many things going on my desktop. . . . I’m feeling like a slow adopter tonight.
BTW, my blogs at Technorati are where they were since Janice jiggled them when she first got here. I guess I shouldn’t have been eating pancakes with syrup when I claimed them. They’re still sticky.
Liz
HART!
hmmm … the tagline, not a bad idea – it would differentiate you from the rest, but then the pressure would be on to make sure you get the comments :-).
I’m usually no early adopter (far from it), it was just something I came across that I didn’t know I was looking for.
Okay Martin, How about this for a tagline:
ââ¬ÅSOMETIMES half the show is in the commentsââ¬?
Just kidding. Have some nore nachos.
Okay, tomorrow is Thursday, maybe then I’ll breathe, and give it a look this weekend.
Liz
Well, I do like thinking up taglines .. For instance, I think my best is at 1-800-HART … “HART’s mind works in mysterious ways .. someone should take advantage of that!” and my second best is at PapillonLvr site …About Papillons .. The Dog Breed ââ¬Â¦ Not The ââ¬ËSteve McQueen Movieââ¬â¢ ââ¬Â¦ // I do like my Earthling one too.
So .. let me try to expand Martin’s expansion~
“Sometimes HALF the show is in the comments .. that’s because the other HALF is in the articles!”
“Sometimes HALF the show is in the comments .. Sometimes HALF the show is in the articles .. and the Final HALF of the show is in the Slidebar!”
Maybe I need more nachos
Okay, Hart.
Here’s your nachos.
Now that I’m done cleaning the coffee stains off my shirt from the surprised and massive laugh I just had . . .
ââ¬ÅSometimes HALF the show is in the comments .. Sometimes HALF the show is in the articles .. and the Final HALF of the show is in the Slidebar!
BUT don’t miss the little bits hiding between the lines either.ââ¬?
Liz
I have been testing it as well. I am not sure that I would give it a 9.5 right now due to the number of blogs that it seems to miss on, but I would give it a 9.5 in potential. I wrote an article on my experiences last night. Overall, its definately the only thing in blogging technology that I am really amped up on.
Hi John,
I think I could be with you. I’m just not sure my comments and coversations are so important that I want to keep track of them. I’ve learned less is more for me in that category.
This IS probably where the web is going, but I’m living in a world of information overload already.
Liz
John, there is a greasemonkey script out there which does away with the need to hit the bookmarklet. I can’t find the url right now, but I know it exists because I’m using it! I think there’s a link on the CoCo blog.
I’m finding it invaluable to keep track of my conversations – then, I only tend to comment on things that I am genuinely interested in getting into a conversation on, so I was in need of this!
As a side effect of using it, I’ve found it’s driven up the traffic on my blog, with a number of people saying they came to me via CoCo, which can’t be a bad thing.
Update – John, found that Greasemonkey script I was talking about. You can get it here:
http://www.solutionwatch.com/313/comment-tracking-with-cocomment/
Okay Cas,
You’re convincing me that I should keep Coco on. Now if only I could figure out how to name a conversation . . .
Liz
Awesome Cas, much appreciated. 😉
I have some beta invites on my site.
Hey Russell,
Welcome to SB. Thanks for letting us know.
Russell’s invites are for something called TailRank and Editorial Control Beta.
Liz