There was a coComment invitation waiting in my inbox this morning. I activated it, and tested it out on a couple of blogs. It actually works! It provides a simple way to track comments I've left all over the place. Very very cool.
I do have a couple questions about the service though. It's provided by a Swiss startup company - so, will they pull a bait-and-switch and start charging? What are they going to do with the data? These conversation threads could be mined for all kinds of good/evil. Can we opt out of sharing some conversations? Can we delete (not just hide, but nuke from orbit) a monitored conversation?
There is a minor bug when dealing with comments on WordPress blogs that aren't using the default theme, however. *cough*myblog*ahem* The tracking bookmarklet parses the
Regardless, this is one of the coolest, most useful "web 2.0" innovations I've seen. Well done, coComment!
Here's my "conversations" page: coComment - Blog comments by dnorman