CommentBack Activity Log

#32 [project discountinued]

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Sad news today.
This project is stopping here and the domain commentback.org will be discontinued before the end of January 2010.

I thought was a good idea to give back the comments to the original content source, but finally I proved I was wrong.

Maybe I was not great comunicator, maybe I didn't put enough time in this, maybe today the comments are "The Value" for the various social networks and web services around the net and they are not so inclined to give them back.
We'll (probably) never know. ;-)

I'll move everything on a subdomain of my personal site for future reference.

Thanks to everyone has been involved in this.

Mic

#31

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:37:00 +0000

I've posted the following question to the "Ask Matt" poll, let's see if it will be picked up.

In these days of spreading of comments around all the social networks, what do you think about a protocol aimed to give back comments to the original content source like the one described here?
http://www.commentback.org

Do tou think it will do the trick? Does this protocol have a chance to be widely adopted?
Thanks!

More info about the "Ask Matt" here.

#30 [How to Help?]

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:38:00 +0000

Added the "How to Help?" page.

#29 [A new design]

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:23:00 +0000

We've made a new design for our site, using the new Evinrude CMS.

Thanks 000webhost.com for the free hosting and Shea Media for the original graphic.

I hope to give new spreading to this project in the next weeks.

Stay tuned.

#28 [Just pinging]

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:50:00 +0000

Just pinging: this project is not dead.
I'm currently reading here and there about how the social networks are killing blogs' comments.
Read the spec, help us improve it and spread the word. I think this could be really a good solution to the problem.

#27

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:39:00 +0000

The site (with the same graphic) has been reorganized.

#26 [Route change]

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:00 +0000

The way I decided to follow from the beginning has given less results than expected.
So I'm changing the route: no more mails sent to probably interested web sites (except a couple that are already on the path), but a more practical approach.

News to follow ~~more or less~~ soon.

#25

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:09:00 +0000

First message sent to socialmedian.

#24

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:00 +0000

First mail sento to Plaxo.

#23

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:47:00 +0000

The LiveJournal Suggestion Mantainer has responded to my message pointing me directly to another person. Mail sent.

#22

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Shared the link in the FriendFeed Italian Social media room.

#21

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:49:00 +0000

Pause for holiday for the next to weeks...

#20

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:04:00 +0000

Shared the link in the FriendFeed Social Media room.

#19

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:40:00 +0000

Michael C. Harris is helping us spreading the word about CommentBack.
Thanks, this kind of help is really needed.

#18

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:32:00 +0000

Second message sent to FriendFeed, as a shared link.

#17

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Second message sent to Disqus, on their forum.

#16

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:11:00 +0000

First mail sent to Intense Debate.

#15

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:03:00 +0000

First mail sent to LiveJournal.

#14

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:53:00 +0000

The CommentBack Specification Draft 3 is now online.
In this version it has been added the XML-RPC interface.
As always, remember this is only a starting point and everyone who want to contribute in this for a better protocol should join the discussion group.
Thanks to el_ponchito for the suggestion.

#13

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:09:00 +0000

The CommentBack Specification Draft 2 is now online.
In this version it has been added a first anti-spam system.
Remeber it's just a starting point and everyone who want to contribute in this for a better protocol should join the discussion group.

#12

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:12:00 +0000

Simply Engineering is writing about CommentBack in italian language.
English thanks to the Google translation.

#11

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:06:00 +0000

First mail sent to Disqus.

#10

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:20:00 +0000

First mail sent to Newsvine.

#9

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:36:00 +0000

First mails sent to:
Jaiku
Mixx
Propeller

#8

noreply@blogger.com (Mic) — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:00 +0000

First mail sent to StumbleUpon.