How to get a coComment invite, and why coComment will be another flash in the pan
It’s the latest buzz for blogs – coComment tracks comments you make across the web, and stores them on a page on their site, or in a box on your own blog/site.
You can get your invite the way I did. Register on the site and two hours later they will email you with a signin code. It’s not really a limited beta, just a way to cash in on the buzz generated by limited betas. Try it anyway if you like, or read on to find out why not…
It’s made a buzz because of the way it’s sold – don’t lose your comments, don’t let the ‘value’ they create escape. Problem is, it won’t work. Here’s why:
- It’s real hassle to remember the hit the button at the right time when you make your comment. There’s no way to go back and retrieve old comments either. Novelty will vanish fast.
- Let’s face facts, most people using this are not creating anything of value when they comment on each other’s blogs. This is just a resource-intensive way of adding to the rubbish on the web.
- It’s yet another cash in attempting to make money from ‘blog services’. It’ll be gone in a year
Still, respect due for the buzz created for a whole lot of nothing. You can see my trial of it way down on the right hand sidebar of my blog.
This is the site: coComment – clear conversation in the blogosphere
UPDATE: Alright, GreaseMonkey partly rescues them from the first point above. See Automating CoComment with Greasemonkey for more. The other comments still stand.
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Posted by akaDruid on 07 Feb 2006 at 02:02 pm
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Trackbacking to a post on the same topic that you have not referenced or linked to is trackback spam and artificial link generation. When you send a trackback ping, make sure you only ping sites that you’ve linked to.
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Man, I am getting too old for the web. Everyone I know that blogs _likes_ getting trackbacks! The trackbacks to this post are the ‘CoComment with Greasemonkey’ blog, and the blog I found it on. I’m guessing it wasn’t the greasemonkey guy, he seems real friendly, so I know which blog I won’t reading anymore… Still, I won’t be miserable enough to mention who ‘anon’ is.
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