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Now a CoCommenting Fool thanks to Jayson Knight

Jayson Knight started the Community Server CoComment Support ball rolling with his quick mod to the CS Skin-CommentForm.ascx control.  Then Thomas Freudenberg took the ball and slamma-jammed it in the hoop.  I took Thomas' code and in 5 minutes from copy to paste to upload, my blog had CoComment support.  Thanks, guys!  A big shout-out to Keyvan Nayyeri who added support for CS 2.0.

So how did I get a CoComment registration invite?  Me?  Well, Jayson Knight posted some interesting thoughts about CoComment on Friday evening and happened to mentioned that he had a registration invite to the first commenter of the post.  Yeaaah, baby.   The invite arrived to my inbox from Jayson a couple of hours later.   This proved the old adage that the nerd who snoozes on Saturday morning instead of reading their RSS feeds....loses!  btw, Keyvan might have a couple CoComment invites still available.  You'll have to email him about that if interested.

A quick CoComment description is that it gives you the ability to store all of the conversations containing your comments on a single page, your CoComment Conversations page.  To use it (for now) you add a CoComment bookmarklet to your browser bookmark toolbar (screenshot below) which you click on when you finish entering your comment and before you click the "submit" button. 

I've added a sidebar menu link to my coComment conversations page.  Not much there.  Here's Jayson's, which is much more interesting.

The thing is, there's no way to know if a blog (particularly a CS blog) supports CoComment.  We CS guys may want to add a "CoComment Enabled" message or something to our blog comment form until the CoComment capture process is finalized.





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Posted on 2/12/2006 1:24:00 PM by Dave Burke
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2/12/2006 2:15:01 PM Permalink

Wahoo!  Dual shoutouts...thanks!  I've actually been in pretty close communication (both on and offline) with the CoComment devs about this service, namely this thread: http://www.cocomment.com/teamblog/?p=27#comments and this one: http://www.cocomment.com/teamblog/?p=21#comments.  Merlin (the guy who seems to be in charge) has stated that he has his designers working on a solution where coco enabled blogs will display some sort of icon in the comment form box to let folks know it accepts coComments.  I then asked "hey, why not ditch the bookmarklet all together and automate it"...they're one step ahead of me and said they'd have some new code for us early this week (their blog is already automated; if you have a coco account and leave a comment it's automatically tracked...look ma, no bookmarklet!).  I highly recommend keeping up w/ their blog, so far they've been extremely receptive to ideas concerning coco.  These guys are gonna be rock stars!

jayson knight |

2/12/2006 3:17:36 PM Permalink

Oh great!  More rock stars to compete with.

Thanks for the good information.  Subscribed!

daveburke |

2/17/2006 6:31:51 PM Permalink

Testing updated CoComment integrated code.

daveburke |

2/17/2006 6:53:45 PM Permalink

Nuther CoComment test...

daveburke |

2/17/2006 7:32:22 PM Permalink

Think I got CoComment working now by replacing the FeedBlitz Submit form with a hyperlink.

daveburke |


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