B. Mann Consulting

I bumped into coComment finally. It's an interesting idea, almost identical in its end results to SXORE (which should be more officially launching this week, I think). But, the way it works and why you might want to use it is highly different.

coComment gives you a little "bookmarklet" to drag to your toolbar, and you click it whenever you see a comment box you want to leave a comment in. It sends your comment back to the central coComment server and you can of course track things via RSS and all that good stuff. The comment still lives in the original spot on the original blog...it just happens to be tracked centrally as well.

How is this different than SXORE? Well, at it's core, SXORE is based on identity, and could replace/augment the user login process of many types of systems. coComment is more of an overlay system, however at the end of the day it is tied to your coComment username, which is also an identity of sorts. What would be really interesting is if coComment actually begins SXIP-enabled -- that your coComment username is one of your identities, with which you could login to all sorts of things.

I found this post by Ian Hixie very interesting. At Bryght, we're looking at revamping our support ticketing and feedback process to more closely follow what we believe: that companies should value every ounce of feedback/suggestion/whatever that people choose to give them....wherever that feedback happens.

I found several posts giving suggestions and feedback on the WHATWG specs. But as far as I can tell, none of those messages were sent to the list.

I've made a note of those posts so that I can make sure to incorporate the comments that were made, but please, if you have comments... send them to the list! Or to me! Leaving them on your Web log will not (unless I happen to run into those comments like I did those above) result in the spec improving. Your comments are welcome, whoever you are, and however minor or controversial you might think your comments are. Hixie's Natural Log: Message in a Bottle

So...how about using some of these fancy new blog search tools to find out what people are saying about you? You could even designate a blog entry to link to for different types of feedback (or even, vote with links -- link to different posts for different strategies).