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I’ve mentioned before that I liked the service from coComment which provide a way to keep track of all of the comments that you make on other people’s blog posts. I liked the service so much it made me want to comment on people’s blogs which is great for the blogosphere.

I recently saw an article on the TechCrunch site previewing another service that aims to aggregate your comments into one central location, but I didn’t bother with it at first – thinking it was just a rip-off of cocomment.com. Well, I was wrong to ignore it, because co.mments is a really cool service that provides similar features as cocomment.com as well as all the features that coComment forgot to implement.

The biggest problem with coComment is that the site would only track your comments – you wouldn’t know if any other comments had been made on the post, so you wouldn’t know when to check back for responses. Also, it would only track your comments if you remembered to click the bookmarklet. co.mments does things a bit differently – for starters, you don’t have to make a comment on a post to track it. This is a great idea if you want to keep tabs on a conversation without actually joining in. Then you can follow the entire post with comments from the co.mments site. Also, you can add a link to each post on your blog to allow users to add the post to their own co.mments profile. You can see these links in action on this blog now!

co.mments also have another cool feature which is like a ‘river of news’ on the front page. As people add posts to co.mments they are displayed on the front page and you’re given the opportunity to add them to your own tracking pages. There are also, obviously, lots of options for RSS feeds – you can track your own posts as well as everyone else’s.

Overall, this is a great service and I can highly recommend that you try it out yourself.

Links:

• coComment – cocomment.com
• co.mments – co.mments.com
• TechCrunch’s review on co.mments here
• TechCrunch’s review on coComment here, andhere