CoComment

Posted: February 5th, 2006 | 34 Comments »

I put six months of my life into CoComment, so I’m proud it became public and picked the attention of bloggers out there. As Robert puts it, cocomment finally allows you to track your blog comments around the web no matter when you make them. It’s the first time one of my project makes it to TechCrunch so I guess this is a big day. We’re even on Memeorandum !

So what is CoComment exactly? It’s the answer to a problem most bloggers have. Four problems in fact:

• Comments centralization
Commenting on blogs is like planting a seed in the jungle. You better put some flashing laser beams around your stuff or you are going to lose it. This is where cocomment comes in
» CoComment will keep a copy of what you said so you can find your contributions again. In a neat and centralized view.

• Comments follow up
This is probably feature number one in terms of usefulness. Today, following conversations you participated in is like reading blogs without RSS. It’s painful as if it was 2001 all over again. You try to track conversations but nothing changed, you just lost some precious time.
» Cocomment will tell you when somebody comments after you. You save some time, everybody is happy.

• Comments display
Comments are part of what you do. At least as much as blog posts. So why can’t you show them on your blog?
» Cocomment does just that. You comment on a blog, your readers know it immediately, and they can follow your wanderings around the sphere.

• 100 comments ≠ 100 links
This is completely false but nobody ever told you. Links were the only indicators of what was hot until today. Now a service will be able to tell you what conversations are really hot. Bonus side effect: what’s really piquing people’s interest will get detected earlier, and conversation will converge on the original source. No more global micro-conversations (= people restarting conversation in their own blog), but one global conversation where all relevant information is finally kept together.

I am proud of what we did. Really. I think it’s a huge step forward, and it will potentially make the life of hundreds of people much easier.

I am happy to share the credit of the idea with Nicolas Dengler, and big thanks to Peter Balsinger’s team, Marco Chong, and Christopher Ritz. Great job from the Swisscom Innovation people.

34 Comments on “CoComment”

  1. 1 Laurent said at 02:50 on February 5th, 2006:

    We’re number two on Memeorandum. Amazing.

  2. 2 Laurent said at 02:50 on February 5th, 2006:

    We’re number two on Memeorandum. Amazing.

  3. 3 Laurent said at 11:15 on February 5th, 2006:

    Some codes:

    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

    More on the way.

  4. 4 Laurent said at 11:15 on February 5th, 2006:

    Some codes:

    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

    More on the way.

  5. 5 JW said at 13:35 on February 5th, 2006:

    Thanks for the key! I’m trying coComment, and it seems very good. It’s just what I was waiting for…

    P.S: This site is not supported :-(

  6. 6 JW said at 13:35 on February 5th, 2006:

    Thanks for the key! I’m trying coComment, and it seems very good. It’s just what I was waiting for…

    P.S: This site is not supported :-(

  7. 7 Marco said at 15:04 on February 5th, 2006:

    Laurent, is it possible to send me an invitation code? Thanks!

  8. 8 Marco said at 15:04 on February 5th, 2006:

    Laurent, is it possible to send me an invitation code? Thanks!

  9. 9 MV said at 15:34 on February 5th, 2006:

    Great idea! I’m using coComment right now. I’m surprised this blog is not yet supported though. I hope that more blog softwares will be supported soon. More power!

  10. 10 MV said at 15:34 on February 5th, 2006:

    Great idea! I’m using coComment right now. I’m surprised this blog is not yet supported though. I hope that more blog softwares will be supported soon. More power!

  11. 11 Guest said at 18:22 on February 5th, 2006:

    When will new invitation codes be posted?

  12. 12 Guest said at 18:22 on February 5th, 2006:

    When will new invitation codes be posted?

  13. 13 Laurent said at 19:15 on February 5th, 2006:

    Some new codes:

    1900-3319-2646-4661-9261
    5877-1519-1686-8827-5395
    1743-8269-2440-9893-5966
    3801-2111-3188-4291-1653
    5445-8513-9178-8539-4732
    7710-2826-0636-8385-5321
    0926-7903-5397-1939-4487
    8750-1854-7143-6061-4233
    9901-6093-3086-1743-0154
    0999-7427-8528-4368-6799
    8092-3289-8779-8717-7393
    0917-0163-2254-5240-0452
    0272-9193-4620-0408-4980
    6516-4576-0871-8278-5419
    7013-2100-6604-1446-1548
    8360-6672-6424-4894-6835
    2363-0867-0482-4982-2618
    1085-1101-2296-1896-2355
    0758-2278-6234-4371-9575
    4065-2111-1119-9751-3907
    2612-1905-6508-3735-8472
    0446-6382-5985-3368-6598
    6309-5802-7277-6771-7589
    2022-5155-0943-1316-2689
    1699-3754-4625-4263-9762
    5611-8831-4946-4251-2229
    2560-3542-7236-0461-9709
    2990-5531-4497-5855-2811
    6336-2394-3247-3194-3487
    7526-1734-1032-8337-3304
    2505-0730-9056-8549-8302
    5801-7285-3360-3163-5680
    1790-8199-2505-2594-8292

    Yes, this blog is not supported because I used TextPattern and it is not yet compatible… My priority was on providing YOU with the service, that’s why we support WordPress and Blogger before TextPattern.

  14. 14 Laurent said at 19:15 on February 5th, 2006:

    Some new codes:

    1900-3319-2646-4661-9261
    5877-1519-1686-8827-5395
    1743-8269-2440-9893-5966
    3801-2111-3188-4291-1653
    5445-8513-9178-8539-4732
    7710-2826-0636-8385-5321
    0926-7903-5397-1939-4487
    8750-1854-7143-6061-4233
    9901-6093-3086-1743-0154
    0999-7427-8528-4368-6799
    8092-3289-8779-8717-7393
    0917-0163-2254-5240-0452
    0272-9193-4620-0408-4980
    6516-4576-0871-8278-5419
    7013-2100-6604-1446-1548
    8360-6672-6424-4894-6835
    2363-0867-0482-4982-2618
    1085-1101-2296-1896-2355
    0758-2278-6234-4371-9575
    4065-2111-1119-9751-3907
    2612-1905-6508-3735-8472
    0446-6382-5985-3368-6598
    6309-5802-7277-6771-7589
    2022-5155-0943-1316-2689
    1699-3754-4625-4263-9762
    5611-8831-4946-4251-2229
    2560-3542-7236-0461-9709
    2990-5531-4497-5855-2811
    6336-2394-3247-3194-3487
    7526-1734-1032-8337-3304
    2505-0730-9056-8549-8302
    5801-7285-3360-3163-5680
    1790-8199-2505-2594-8292

    Yes, this blog is not supported because I used TextPattern and it is not yet compatible… My priority was on providing YOU with the service, that’s why we support WordPress and Blogger before TextPattern.

  15. 15 Zoli Erdos said at 19:35 on February 5th, 2006:

    So far I like it .. ran into a few problems, but that’s normal with a pre-beta.. and still better than nothing! You guys are the pioneers, keep on innovating :-)

  16. 16 Zoli Erdos said at 19:35 on February 5th, 2006:

    So far I like it .. ran into a few problems, but that’s normal with a pre-beta.. and still better than nothing! You guys are the pioneers, keep on innovating :-)

  17. 17 stacy said at 23:07 on February 5th, 2006:

    Thanks, one of the codes worked. :) Can’t wait to try it out!!

  18. 18 stacy said at 23:07 on February 5th, 2006:

    Thanks, one of the codes worked. :) Can’t wait to try it out!!

  19. 19 RyanB said at 03:04 on February 6th, 2006:

    You are sure spitting that them out Laurent. lol

  20. 20 RyanB said at 03:04 on February 6th, 2006:

    You are sure spitting that them out Laurent. lol

  21. 21 Jeremy Higgs said at 03:31 on February 6th, 2006:

    Thanks for the codes! Worked a treat. :)

  22. 22 Jeremy Higgs said at 03:31 on February 6th, 2006:

    Thanks for the codes! Worked a treat. :)

  23. 23 Ray CHOW said at 09:19 on February 6th, 2006:

    Laurent>

    “coComment will tell you when somebody comments after you”

    does it mean:

    “coComment will tell you when ANYONE comments after you”

    or does the system track new comments of ONLY coComment members?

    (btw, your blog platform is not supported, isn’t it ?)

  24. 24 Ray CHOW said at 09:19 on February 6th, 2006:

    Laurent>

    “coComment will tell you when somebody comments after you”

    does it mean:

    “coComment will tell you when ANYONE comments after you”

    or does the system track new comments of ONLY coComment members?

    (btw, your blog platform is not supported, isn’t it ?)

  25. 25 Laurent said at 10:55 on February 6th, 2006:

    Ray,
    -> it’s ONLY when coComment members comment.

    and yes, my ownblog platform does not work, I should be working on fixing that but I have too many requests for codes right now ;-)

  26. 26 Laurent said at 10:55 on February 6th, 2006:

    Ray,
    -> it’s ONLY when coComment members comment.

    and yes, my ownblog platform does not work, I should be working on fixing that but I have too many requests for codes right now ;-)

  27. 27 marcelol said at 20:13 on February 6th, 2006:

    Well Laurent, I tried them all out…..they’re all taken. It would be nice if people who’ve used a code would SAY they have.

    Laurent, could you help out a guy here and send me an invite.

  28. 28 marcelol said at 20:13 on February 6th, 2006:

    Well Laurent, I tried them all out…..they’re all taken. It would be nice if people who’ve used a code would SAY they have.

    Laurent, could you help out a guy here and send me an invite.

  29. 29 Hans said at 20:49 on February 6th, 2006:

    I would be great to get an invite here into the Caucasus, I checked so many used already ;-(

  30. 30 Hans said at 20:49 on February 6th, 2006:

    I would be great to get an invite here into the Caucasus, I checked so many used already ;-(

  31. 31 Aqeel said at 18:54 on February 7th, 2006:

    marcelol, not all codes are already used, I just tried some and one worked (4th one 5445-8513-9178-8539-4732). Usually people just choose codes randomly from the list, so there are chances that some are still unused.

    Keep Trying

  32. 32 Aqeel said at 18:54 on February 7th, 2006:

    marcelol, not all codes are already used, I just tried some and one worked (4th one 5445-8513-9178-8539-4732). Usually people just choose codes randomly from the list, so there are chances that some are still unused.

    Keep Trying

  33. 33 Brian said at 07:31 on February 8th, 2006:

    I would love to get an invite for my wife! She uses blogrolling to keep track of what she comments on and I’ve seen her going down the list clicking on each blog, searching for the Comments link to see what’s happened since she commented. CoComment sounds perfect for her (and me)! How about two invitations just in time for Valentine’s Day?

  34. 34 Brian said at 07:31 on February 8th, 2006:

    I would love to get an invite for my wife! She uses blogrolling to keep track of what she comments on and I’ve seen her going down the list clicking on each blog, searching for the Comments link to see what’s happened since she commented. CoComment sounds perfect for her (and me)! How about two invitations just in time for Valentine’s Day?

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