Branding tip of the day: When naming your new company/website/concept – do not use generic or common words.
Can you spot the difference between these?
- Commentful
- Co.mments
- coComment
They are 3 separate services doing a very similar thing – tracking comments you make on other websites – but I’d fail a multiple choice test if you asked me which is which. (looking them up as we speak)
Commentful installs a blinking light in your browser, coComment attaches itself to forms you fill out online, and co.mments works via a bookmarklet that allows you to select what posts to track.
I’ve actually tried out all 3 and I don’t think any one of them has it right just yet. Commentful was always blinking because I do a lot of commenting on popular blogs (that other people are constantly commenting on as well). coComment slowed down my browsing because it attached itself to all the forms so there was always an extra second attached to all the page loads. My surfing pattern didn’t fit well with co.mments – I just forgot to click the bookmarklet most of the time.
I’d like to be able to track the comments I make on blogs – but for now I’ll just wait until either one of them gets it right or until cocoCommen.ts launches ;)
Update: Mashable adds 2 specialized services to this list.
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Commentful is ours so I have to ask – if it is blinking all the time, isn’t it doing exactly what you want (letting you know there are new comments)?
The problem with the blinking is that if you want to follow more than a few blogs AND they’re popular (meaning they’re frequently commented on – like copyblogger – then the blinking will start to become kind of pointless, since it still come on all the time (and I don’t want to check it multiple times a day).
In my case it just didn’t fit my workflow. It was too simplistic. If instead of a flashing light it was a number of new comments with a mouseover dropdown listing which blog posts had what number of new comments, then I would find it A LOT more useful.
Righto – we decided to eschew (I’m a very heavy commentator myself) scraping the content – personal preference to read the comments where they actually appeared :)
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