Posted on February 13, 2006 by Mike
The new “hot” website for the cool digirati (Yes, I’m including myself in that group. ) is coComment, which is currently in beta.* The premise of this site is a nice idea. With all the different places you can comment, this service will keep track of the comments you leave all over the internet and display your comments, and the conversations around them for you in a nice little one-page display. I’m not sure how they plan to make money from this idea, and it does seem, at first glance, and little “bubble-ish”. With the possible business issues, I have 2 problems with his idea / service.
1. It really doesn’t work too well yet. I pretty broad problem, I know, but today I stumbled on a big example of it not following my comments resulting conversation. I left a comment on Robert Scoble’s blog, basically echoing a recent article I posted, and I remembered the steps (more on that later) and my comment was successfully entered into Scoble’s blog and the coComment site. Later in the day I went back to Scoble’s site and found that he had directly replied to me (i.e., he started his following comment with “Mike:”) but that resulting follow up was nowhere to be found on my coComment page. I know it must be tough to figure out all the ways conversations can continue, and on a technical level, I feel their pain…but they promised this, and so far they aren’t delivering.
2. I can’t seem to remember to click the damn bookmarklet before I comment on a blog. I’m just not used to having to do something first and its more difficult for me to break my habit than I originally thought. Yes, this one is my problem, but its a problem others might have. Maybe there should be a firefox extension that figures out if its a comment page you are looking at and pre-activates the coComment javascript for you? There’s an idea! Too bad I use Camino on my Mac…that extension could be useful at work though.
Let me be clear. Overall, I like this idea, assuming they work out the bugs and I can manage to train myself to remember to click the bookmarklet BEFORE I comment.
* Some bloggers have been giving the impression that they are special that they have a beta account at the current cool kids table site, but I’ve had my account for a week now, and I had no problem getting an account within the day I heard about it.
** You can find my public coComment page at: http://www.cocomment.com/comments/mikehyb
The new “hot” website for the cool digirati (Yes, I’m including myself in that group. ) is coComment, which is currently in beta.* The premise of this site is a nice idea. With all the different places you can comment, this service will keep track of the comments you leave all over the internet and display your comments, and the conversations around them for you in a nice little one-page display. I’m not sure how they plan to make money from this idea, and it does seem, at first glance, and little “bubble-ish”. With the possible business issues, I have 2 problems with his idea / service.
1. It really doesn’t work too well yet. I pretty broad problem, I know, but today I stumbled on a big example of it not following my comments resulting conversation. I left a comment on Robert Scoble’s blog, basically echoing a recent article I posted, and I remembered the steps (more on that later) and my comment was successfully entered into Scoble’s blog and the coComment site. Later in the day I went back to Scoble’s site and found that he had directly replied to me (i.e., he started his following comment with “Mike:”) but that resulting follow up was nowhere to be found on my coComment page. I know it must be tough to figure out all the ways conversations can continue, and on a technical level, I feel their pain…but they promised this, and so far they aren’t delivering.
2. I can’t seem to remember to click the damn bookmarklet before I comment on a blog. I’m just not used to having to do something first and its more difficult for me to break my habit than I originally thought. Yes, this one is my problem, but its a problem others might have. Maybe there should be a firefox extension that figures out if its a comment page you are looking at and pre-activates the coComment javascript for you? There’s an idea! Too bad I use Camino on my Mac…that extension could be useful at work though.
Let me be clear. Overall, I like this idea, assuming they work out the bugs and I can manage to train myself to remember to click the bookmarklet BEFORE I comment.
* Some bloggers have been giving the impression that they are special that they have a beta account at the current cool kids
tablesite, but I’ve had my account for a week now, and I had no problem getting an account within the day I heard about it.** You can find my public coComment page at: http://www.cocomment.com/comments/mikehyb