I tried out coComment a while ago and found it a bit clunky. Don’t get that confused with co.mments which I discovered thanks to TechCrunch’s review. Both tools help you to keep track of blog comments - it can be so easy to leave a comment on a blog and then forget to check back to see what people are saying in response. Yes, you could add it to your feedreader (sometimes it’s easier than others to find the feed for this) but co.mments makes it so quick, press a bookmarklet and it’s tracking it for you. You don’t even need to create an account.
When you check the tracker page, you get a helpful summary of the post and info like this:
No new comments, 32 in conversation. Last comment 7 hours ago. Remove. Ping.
co.comment will automatically check (ping) blog conversations to see if there’s new ones since your last visit but you can always do this manually.
I’d love it if they removed the blog-geek-term of “Ping” and replaced it with the phrase “Check now” or “Check again”.
I’ve emailed them with this suggestion.
your thoughts
Josue
Co.mments is working much better for me, too. coComments didn’t track the convos very well.
Good point with the “ping” term. What would you suggest for “sindicate”? I remember it was very confusing for me when I entered the blogosphere…
Chrono Cr@cker
I love coComment, it really rocks and helps me out a lot. Co.mments is not really tracking well for me.
The Ping thing is good though!
Rachel
Josue, I wrote about the word syndicate being a poor term (not used in common language here in New Zealand at all) on this post actually - look under the “Blogspeak” point.
Jack Yan
I haven’t tried out Co.mments, but will. I like coCo, despite its faults. The folks there are responsive when you post errors on the forum. Hopefully they will keep streamlining it, as it is in beta. And I realized how much it has become habitual when they had a DNS problem over the weekend.