No more registration code is needed to try the service! Head to cocomment.com and create an account now!

And if you don’t know what coComment is read the following Wired article:

A New Way to Tame Chaos of Flames
Loads of people post comments on blogs without running one of their own. Now services like coComment let serial opinion slingers round up their stray rants. By Joanna Glasner.

Thanks to Merlin’s advices on the cocomment blog I managed to make my TextPattern installation (= the blog you are reading now) co-compatible. It’s really easy: add the following code to the comment_form form (under the presentation tab):

Add the following code to the comment_form form (under the presentation tab):

< script type="text/javascript" >
var blogTool = “TextPattern”;
var blogURL = “Replace with URL of your blog”;
var blogTitle = “Replace with Title of your blog”;
var postURL = “URL of your blog then add the following: /?id=“;
/* for me it means I have to write the following:
var postURL = “http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/?id=“;

*/
var postTitle = ““;
var commentAuthorFieldName = “comment_name_input”;
var commentAuthorLoggedIn = “false”;
var commentFormID = “txpCommentInputForm”;
var commentTextFieldName = “message”;
var commentButtonName = “submit”;
< /script >

The blog box is a major feature: display the comments you made on other blogs on your own site. Show your readers what has gotten your attention lately.

It takes 5 seconds of customization and a copy paste to put this on your blog. Try it here!

• we now support Flickr. Wow. This thing has to be really flexible so that in one day we can add a new platform. Congrats to the developpers!

• some geniuses already came up with a wordpress plugin , a greasemonkey hack and a firefox extension. Co-creation beats any other form of development! Thanks people, you rock!

• seems I was a little bit optimistic when I said we would open the service tonight. We are still waiting for news from our host. But it’s coming, we will announce a date as soon as possible. In between register for codes, contact me, or check my earlier post.

As somebody suggested in the comments, it would be really cool if people using codes would then add something in the comments below to say they took one. Let’s play it fair people!

2214-1742-5261
5164-6684-3612
4934-5330-0148
2320-0201-6297
3597-0275-7406
2304-6451-6473
0623-4990-7963
9988-3928-0031
4939-5497-2921
3331-8977-9141
0535-3381-4271
5329-4095-6875
3869-9135-5329
5483-5856-3498
3412-8676-8041
7851-9808-9845
7018-3126-4252
9967-3611-8808
8052-6686-7380
8268-9464-1817

Enjoy

Let’s see if we can get cocomment on the front page of Digg. Help us, click here!

It’s happening on the official blog.

In other news: I am pushing to open the service (=remove these frustrating codes) on Monday night. Stay tuned.

Still need a code? Leave a comment (with email, not displayed) and I’ll try to send some. I can’t paste these lists as they get picked up somewhere on the web in five minutes. This thing is going crazy.

Update:

I put six months of my life into CoComment, so I’m proud it became public and picked the attention of bloggers out there. As Robert puts it, cocomment finally allows you to track your blog comments around the web no matter when you make them. It’s the first time one of my project makes it to TechCrunch so I guess this is a big day. We’re even on Memeorandum !

So what is CoComment exactly? It’s the answer to a problem most bloggers have. Four problems in fact:

• Comments centralization
Commenting on blogs is like planting a seed in the jungle. You better put some flashing laser beams around your stuff or you are going to lose it. This is where cocomment comes in
» CoComment will keep a copy of what you said so you can find your contributions again. In a neat and centralized view.

• Comments follow up
This is probably feature number one in terms of usefulness. Today, following conversations you participated in is like reading blogs without RSS. It’s painful as if it was 2001 all over again. You try to track conversations but nothing changed, you just lost some precious time.
» Cocomment will tell you when somebody comments after you. You save some time, everybody is happy.

• Comments display
Comments are part of what you do. At least as much as blog posts. So why can’t you show them on your blog?
» Cocomment does just that. You comment on a blog, your readers know it immediately, and they can follow your wanderings around the sphere.

• 100 comments ≠ 100 links
This is completely false but nobody ever told you. Links were the only indicators of what was hot until today. Now a service will be able to tell you what conversations are really hot. Bonus side effect: what’s really piquing people’s interest will get detected earlier, and conversation will converge on the original source. No more global micro-conversations (= people restarting conversation in their own blog), but one global conversation where all relevant information is finally kept together.

I am proud of what we did. Really. I think it’s a huge step forward, and it will potentially make the life of hundreds of people much easier.

I am happy to share the credit of the idea with Nicolas Dengler, and big thanks to Peter Balsinger’s team, Marco Chong, and Christopher Ritz. Great job from the Swisscom Innovation people.