Echo Binary

Fresh from oven, a new service from Switzerland called CoComment allows you to track your blog comments in one place. It’s going to be popular with bloggers. It makes tracking comments so much easier because you only have to look in one centralized place.

You have to get an invite in order to test it right now. I’m lucky to be invited soon after I have read about CoComment in TechCrunch. I’m not sure if you’ll easily get an invite right now. More and more bloggers want to get an invitation.

CoComment requires a bookmarklet in your browser to fetch the comment you are about to post in a blog. I doubt that you can track your comments no matter where you make them because not all blog softwares are supported yet. Here are the supported blogs at the moment: Blogger.com, MSN Spaces, MySpaces, TypePad, Wordpress and Xanga. More blog softwares will be eventually supported by CoComment. Click here if you you don’t know what bookmarklet is. CoComment supports Firefox 1.x, Safari 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0.

Using the bookmarklet, a copy of your comment is addded to “Your Conversations” page on CoComment. You’ll now be able to review the comments made by all CoComment user in other blogs you have commented. Currently only CoComment users’ comments will appearr in “Your Conversations”. Comments made by people not user CoComment will not be recorded by CoComment. In the future, there will be advance blog integration tool that will enable all comments from your blog to be crawled and indexed by CoComment even if the commenters are not using CoComment.

If you find this intesting you shoould read the concept behind CoComment written by Laurent Haug.

This is going to be one of my favorite blog tool!

Links:
CoComment
TechCrunch.com: CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments
Scobleizer: Track your comments, no matter where you make them
Technorati Tags: CoComment, comment, blog, blogger

Thanks goodness Wordpress 2.0.1 is here. It’s a small maintenance release and it addresses several problems that was introduced in WP 2.0. I’ve upgraded my clunky install of Wordpress 2.0 to version 2.0.1 and I’m pleased that it didn’t take too long until my blog was upgraded to version 2.0.1. Since I have installed WP 2.0 I have disabled several default features that annoyed me in WP 2.0 such as the visual editor, and I’m very pleased to disable it even if I have upgraded to 2.0.1. I wonder why it turns itself on after I upgraded. It should have been left disabled. Anyway, I tried testing the visual editor again and for some reason I still don’t like it. I still prefer the old school text editor where I can see all open and close tags. It’s just me so please don’t ask what’s wrong with the visual editor. I think it’s just fine. The visual editor had several fixes and cleanups so it should have improved quite a bit.

I noticed that after upgrading to WP 2.0.1 the caching improved too. I felt that the generation of pages on first visit didn’t take quite long caching compared to WP 2.0. As noted in the release notes, caching had been fixed under certain PHP enviroments. Sounds great. Also in this release, you can specify an upload folder and optionally disable the date-based storage. It should have been in the feature list since day one but it’s better late than never. I’m still cluelesss why there’s no option for removing automatic thumbnail generation. Who needs thumbnails when I resize all my images before uploading? Not everyone is fond of hosting big images linked from thumbnails as they can be leeched easily. Seriously, why this small option to disable thumbnail was left out? I don’t get it.

Overall this small update should fix the bugs in Wordpres 2.0. Congratulations to those who have waited long for this release. I recommend to upgrade your blog to Wordpress 2.0.1 if you are still running Wordpress 1.5. This time you won’t regret it. Perhaps you may want to wait for another minor or maintenance release but upgrading to WP 2.0.1 is already a good choice at this time. To all bloggers running Wordpress 2.0 I urge you to upgrade now!

Links:
Wordpress
Technorati Tags: Wordpress, blog, blogging

I was reviewing my Measure Map today and I just noticed that Measure Map has enabled Week in Review on “What’s Happening on your Blog” section. As far as I know this is not publicly announced but I have this feature enabled in my account so let me show you what’s in it.

When you click the featured week of “what happened on your blog” you’ll be able to review the statistics of your blog on that week including the number of visitors who visited your blog, number of web sites made links to you, number comments posted, and number of posts that were read on that particular week.

On Week In Review you can also view your dashboard from the week you are currently reviewing and view all posts from that week as well. Further down, Weekly Numbers are presented neatly, displaying brief statistics per day.

Here’s a screenshot of my Week In Review for 20th - 26th January 2006.

Links:
Measure Map
Technorati Tags: Measuremap, measure+map, blog+statistics

There is an article on Lifehacker.com about laptop tips and hints. If you carry your laptop very often you may want to read this helpful article on how to maximize your productivity off the road while extending the life of your laptop.

Links:
Lifehacker.com: Geek to Live: Laptop Tips
Technorati Tags: lifehack, lifehacker, laptop, tips

We are writing the documentation for our thesis right now and I find it really convenient to share to-do list with my peers. Using shared to-do list can streamline our work much better than we do it traditionally (round-robin) because shared to-do list provide us preemptive approach. We could have used a project manager tool but Ta-da list provides a simple interface to manage our tasks — good enough for organizing small group of people and short term goals.

Ta-da makes it easy to…

• Keep track of all the little things you need to get done
• Make lists for other people (co-workers, friends, family)
• Share lists with the world (”My favorite movies of 2004″)
• Subscribe to your lists in RSS so you’re always on track

…and more!

Links:
Tadalist.com