CoComment - a Web 2.0 service worth commenting on

I've largely ignored the Web 2.0 hype. Personally I hate the term, since nothing about internet technology has actually changed. I'm equally irritated that this term has opened the floodgates for digital snake oil merchants looking for a quick VC dollar.

Still, one of these so-called Web 2.0 services has caught my eye: CoComment.

I've had a similar idea for ages, but he who codes, wins -- so they beat me to it. What they've done is to create a bookmarklet that allows you to capture your comments made on various blogs and websites and save them to a central list.

For example, view my conversations.

But ... is this a business? It seems more like a feature missing from my browser, or my RSS newsreader.

Still it's one to watch. A word of caution though -- it's still in beta and there are a few irritating flaws. First, I've not been able to unsubscribe from the test blog they provide, which means I get 'testing cocomment' messages every day. Second, for websites not using the platforms they support, it seems to disable my ability to submit a comment after I attempt to 'cocomment' the discussion, resulting in my having to copy my comment text, reload the page and paste it back in. Finally, it would be nice if there were an automatic detection tool -- I've made a few comments only to remember coComment right after I've hit 'submit'.