commentful : track comments in one place
[Update 26/07/06: coComment is crawling to the top]
Both mashable and Solution Watch have posted about Commentful.
It seems to be another comments tracker, most similar to co.mments.
What I like about co.mments is that if I want to follow comments on a blog post I just hit the bookmarklet, and it adds it to my account.
To see the latest I can goto my account or just use the take away method and read it in my house at Rojo, ie. my RSS feed for co.mments.
If I do goto my account what I see is a list of all the blog posts I’m tracking, if there is a new comment it will display this and I can expand it to read it, when I’m done I just press “clear”…this means I’ve marked the comment as read and I’ll await any new ones. Or if I no longer want to follow the post I can just “remove” it.
co.mments also have a community homepage…it’s just a stream where you can see blog posts being tracked by the whole co.mments community, it also has a handy “track this” button.
As mentioned on mashable you can put a button in the footer of your blog post so people with one click can add your blog post to their co.mments account (this is instead of using the bookmarklet).
I have already got a comments feed for this blog, and also a comments feed for each post…but some people like managing the blogs they are tracking in one spot, and this is exactly what co.mments is offering.
The posts above mention that Commentful is a bit different in subtle ways:
- it only alerts you of the new comment, but you have to go to the actual blog post to read it
- the browser extensions notify you of new entries via an icon on the browser you can even use the extension to add to Commentful
- it has a a limit of tracking 30 sites, and auto-deletes a site after 3 days
I haven’t used Commentful because Brian’s screenshots and great explanations say it all…anyway it seems co.mments does just a little more for me, so I’m not moving for now…although the browser features are a real temptation.
NOTE: Both Commentful and co.mments will track comments left by anyone (they don’t have to know these services even exist)…whereas CoComments (a social comments service) will only notify you of a new comment on a blog if the person who made the comment is registered with CoComments (I think this is still the case).
Related:
Managing and tracking comments
CoComments: comments haven
Similar:
Blog chats
Webride : discuss a webpage tagging service
Example
I have the 2 links below on my permalink page, use either of these to track comments on this blog post:
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Track comments on this blog post with co.mments - 
(this button is found in a section called “Other”).
More just for fun
Maybe you want to comment about this blog post somewhere else like Webride: 
Maybe you want to privately chat about this blog post with Conversate: 
Maybe you want to publicly chat about this blog post with Gabbly or 3bubbles: 
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But… No RSS feed. The cool thing about co.comment was that I could get a web feed of the comments without having to subscribe to each post individually. Co.comment is supposed to take care of it for me. But, as you indicate, I don’t end up seeing the conversation if the other commenters aren’t using co.comment (most people).
Comment by Jack Vinson — July 7, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
Interesting… There appears to be a difference between co.comments.com and cocoment.com. Have you written about this?
Comment by Jack Vinson — July 7, 2006 @ 11:24 pm
Jack,
CoComments is a comment tracker, I haven’t used this…apparently the problem is that it will only show you new comments in the discussion if they were by a CoCommenter…this is definately a problem.
Whereas co.mments will track any new comment in a discussion, and you can grab one feed for your account (not sure if CoComments as a feed for your account, probably does).
I guess the main difference is the CoComments is developing a type of comments ecosystem…that is kind of like the ususal social tagging service.
You can see other users comments account, you can tag your comments, that way you can view all community comments by tag, etc…
NOTE: It seems Commentful is more similar to co.mments
Comment by Johnt — July 10, 2006 @ 1:50 am
coComment (singular, btw!) is now capable of tracking comments made by people who don’t have an account. See the comments for this post, for example:
http://cocomment.com/article/3369
The last (grey) comment was made by somebody who does not have a coComment account.
This is made possible by “integrating” (I don’t like the word) the blog, as explained here: http://cocomment.com/integrate
Comment by Stephanie Booth — July 13, 2006 @ 12:06 pm