CoComment: Better Than Ever

The folks over at coComment have been busy! They relaunched the service with a ton of new features recently, and I'm deeply impressed. I've reinstalled the FireFox extension this week and so far have had none of the issues that I reported earlier with Firefox crashing on me.

Not only are they listening to their user base and working hard to implement the features that are most commonly requested, but they're also very responsive to email… Back when I first wrote about them here, I traded a few emails back and forth about various features that were included but were not heavily publicized.

I appreciate that they took the time to alert me to the new features and that, once they came back up out of the "code silence" that often happens during a launch, they picked up the conversation where we had left off. Good people with an excellent service.

Here's an overview of what’s new, cribbed verbatim from their blog:

• THE COCOCRAWLER
• The coCoCrawler has arrived, and will keep an eye on your conversations for you. Remember when coComment would inform you of new comments only when they were made by other users of the system? It’s over now, the most requested feature is up and running (it actually has been running in hidden mode for a month) so don’t be surprised to find many new comments in your conversations.
• TRACK THIS CONVERSATION
• Another heavily requested feature: you can now track conversations even if you don’t participate! Simply check the appropriate box after coComment has been activated. The conversation will appear in your page and be followed by our crawler.
• META CONVERSATION
• Want to comment on a web page that has no built-in comment functionality? Now you can activate coComment on any webpage, and create a comment which will trackable in your conversations on the coComment service. If anyone else comments on that page, you’ll be able to monitor the conversation - as you would on a comment enabled website. Now you can start conversations everywhere!
• NEW INTERFACE, SITE STRUCTURE AND NAVIGATION
• With help of the great usability specialists Namahn, we have reorganized and simplified the site. A new homepage will facilitate login and registration, a new navigation allows easy access to your conversations, community, and tools.
• TRY THE SERVICE WITHOUT REGISTERING
• If you want to give coComment a spin without signing up, a temporary cookie will be set on your browser - without you having to give any information.
• FILTERING OF CONVERSATIONS
• Filter your conversations by type. See what you said on blogs, on media sites, in forums, choose how your conversations will be displayed.
• AND TONS OF OTHER FEATURES
  Five languages available (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), more capture-compatible platforms (most notably YouTube!), add people or sites as favorites, send coComment invitations, customize your page (try to drag and drop the boxes on the right of the screen!), and much more!

You can learn more by visiting the Features page on their website, which lays everything out in more detail.

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Comments

[Posted: Aug 4, 2006 2:21:00 PM]

John, I've been really impressed with the follks at cocomment. I had sent them some emails that had just disappeared, but in the last month, they've really gotten on the ball.

[Posted: Dec 28, 2006 9:35:35 PM]

I just installed the newest coComment javascript on my site and it works wonders. Now anyone can track their comments there. And, more importantly, the Comment Box is awesome: http://www.cocomment.com/boxconfig.