Well if you know why people use Bloglines, then I am sure you would have heard about coComment. For others, it’s a new Web 2.0 (ok don’t scold me for using this word.) app which allows you to track the comments that you leave on others blogs.
coComment is an excellent example of Viral Marketing. Instead of just writing about it in the developer’s blog or releasing a press release, they made people like scoble to talk about it and it reached the peak of fame in a matter of hours. Even I was one among them who got really exited after hearing about them. I was looking for way to handle and follow up after I leave comments on blogs that I read.
The guys who are behind it are putting in lot of effort and are rolling down new features almost every week. Even today they have released some new features. And I got really impressed with them when they listed their direct competitors on their own blog. That’s the way to do business. Hat’s off guys!!
But I some how feel that you people miss the very important feature. Yes I am talking about comment crawling – the ability to follow up the comments which are entered by people who are not using coComment also. It may act as a big marketing opportunity as of now, (because, I myself have recommended it to lot of people so that I can follow up their comments too) but it may not help them in the long run.
If any of you from coComment are reading this, then I have a small idea of implementing it (in WordPress blogs at least). Every blog post (in wordpress) will have a corresponding RSS feed for the comments. So you can grab this feed every time a person leaves the comment and by just reading this feed you can get the latest comments left by other people. I actually tried to implement it some time back but didn’t found enough time to complete it.
And I found one smaller itch when commenting in blogger blogs which have enabled popup comment forms. I am not able click the coComment bookmarklet since the comment form opens in a popup and the bookmarks bar is not displaced. I used to copy the url and remove the ‘popup=ok’ part from the query string and then it works.
Apart from it, I am very happy with coComment and let’s hope that they add comment crawling soon. In fact they have also mentioned in their blog that they are currently working on it.
Good piece….the thing with technology is that new things keep cropping up while we still get used to old (!??) stuff! 🙂 Btw nice template ur using for your page!
Thanks Anand, for the comment.
Ya i do believe that.
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CAn any one translate the above comment for me. I just want to know whether the guy is trying to scold me or it’s just a spam 🙂
Cheers Sudar
nice
hmm…seems that message is spam macha! Wow! u seem to be keepin a good track of all the new stuff… i used to do that sometime back… guess a lots happening… must start keeping track! 🙂
Hi Anand,
well, even I feel that it was a spam… 🙂
Cheers,
Sudar
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