CommenTag | official blog

This is quote of one of their last posts (”MacBook AirHead: why Apple’s new laptop is basically useless“)

“Apparently I’ve stirred up the hive, so I guess I need to address this
one point more clearly. (I already did in a comment but who reads ‘em?)” - Devin Coldewey.

That’s exactly the problem we aim at addressing with CommenTag.
On that post, there are (at the moment) 123 comments. Some of them have to be interesting. But still, they are lost within the discussion and nobody reads ‘em.

The current system of tumble up tumble down (”Was this comment useful to you? Yes No”) only allows to get rid of a very small percentage of them (basically, trolls).

What I would like to have while reading this post about the new MacBook Air (as a proud owner of an old PowerBook G4 12inch, I am definitely interested in the topic btw) is to get the point of view of the visitors but based on their typical use of a laptop.
I don’t care to read a comment about someone saying that the MacBook Air is shit just because he’s used to do video editing on its MacBook Pro.
Although that comment might be interesting (because could be well written, with good explanations), it is not relevant to me at all.
And I can give plenty of other examples like this one.
The result of this is that, like most of us, I just don’t read the comments. And I probably miss interesting thoughts…

What a shame.

So please, Devin, if you read this, give CommenTag a try.

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As promised in our preview video, we launched the private beta this first of January 2008 at midnight.

This is a great step to begin this New Year and we all hope that 2008 would be a fantastic year for our venture.

At the moment, we only support Wordpress. The installation on your blog is dead easy as you just have to put one single file within your Wordpress plug-in directory (/wp-content/plugins/) and “boom” the plug-in magically appears within your administration panel (don’t forget to activate it). That’s it, you’re done! Yes, no configuration is required!

[here is the complete howto with some screenshots]

We would like to thank people who committed to help us for this private beta stage. Starting from today, they are going to be on the grill to provide us feedback, bug reports and other improvements to our service.

We expect to launch CommenTag as a public beta as early as the first of March. “Release early, release often”.

If you want to help us test CommenTag, please send an email to support (at) commentag.com.