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Feb
7
(2006)
There was a coComment invitation waiting in my inbox this morning. I activated it, and tested it out on a couple of blogs. It actually works! It provides a simple way to track comments I’ve left all over the place. Very very cool.
I do have a couple questions about the service though. It’s provided by a Swiss startup company – so, will they pull a bait-and-switch and start charging? What are they going to do with the data? These conversation threads could be mined for all kinds of good/evil. Can we opt out of sharing some conversations? Can we delete (not just hide, but nuke from orbit) a monitored conversation?
There is a minor bug when dealing with comments on WordPress blogs that aren’t using the default theme, however. *cough*myblog*ahem* The tracking bookmarklet parses the element of the page to get the title of both the blog and entry. But, with a non-default theme, this parsing may bork, resulting in an item being listed as “Untitled: Untitled” – it still works, but it’s hard to tell which Untitled thread is which…
Regardless, this is one of the coolest, most useful “web 2.0″ innovations I’ve seen. Well done, coComment!
Here’s my “conversations” page: coComment – Blog comments by dnorman
Hi D’Arcy. Would love an invitation if you’ve got any going spare!
Hi D’Arcy,
Thanks for the kind words – glad you like the service! Regarding your “bait-and-switch” concerns, don’t worry – we’re swiss geeks, not swiss bankers!
As for the bug you experienced, we’re still very much in Beta and working out the kinks – but this exactly the kind of feedback we’re looking for. I’ve forwarded the issue to our developers and they’ll add it to the “to do” list. In the future, please feel free to post these kind of issues directly in our forum (http://www.cocomment.com/forum/) – the developers are watching it closely!
Thanks again and happy coCommenting!
Marco – thanks for the clarification on the bait-n-switch. Wasn’t intending to imply anything, but I’m always curious about the business strategy behind these types of ventures. More often than not, it’s along the lines of “get lots of users by offering it free while we build it, then charge Crazy Mad Cash if they want to keep using the finished product…”
Looks a great service, I will be blogging about it today. Thanks for pointing it out D’Arcy
Great! I’ve just updated my bookmarklet… Yay evolution
Hi D´Arcy, thanks for the review and good criticism, earlier today we have deployed coComment Version 0.3d, many little “misbehaviours” have been caught and few new features added but what is most important it’s the constant evolution of the project in part cause the user community and its strong and sincere feedback. I will try and use coCommet here to see if the bug you describe above is still present.
…and here some codes for your readers:
0867-3119-2981
6214-4784-1718
5143-5842-6775
tchuss!
cocofeedback@gmail.com
Hi does it work with the ajax comment in K2?
seems to be a bit buggy (both ajax commenting and CoComment-on-Ajax-comments). I’ve disabeled Ajax commenting long ago because it was acting up. CoComment has another issue with K2, since it parses the title of the page to gather info about the blog and entry titles, but K2 uses a non-default format that CoComment can’t understand. CoComment needs to be more intelligent about that…
Yep I disable the ajax function too and I works now very well for me. Thanks for your answer D’Arcy.