Cool Marketing Thoughts

These last few days there’s been a lot of buzz about tools to track your comments. A few tools have been launched in a very short time, and it seems those tracking tools are the long awaited solution a lot of bloggers were hoping for. In a few ways I agree that it might be useful to keep a list of the places where you’ve been actively participating in discussions or conversations. You can also list those comments on your blog with a plug, so your readers know where you’ve been commenting and about which topic. It might replace the ‘go read what I said here or there’ posts on some blogs, but in general I don’t think I’m going to use this. I’d rather blog about it and point to the specific post, so I can add some context.

Overall, when I comment on something it’s either so good or relevant I’ll blog it too, or so stupid it’s too ridiculous to post. I don’t need an archive to backtrack whatever I’ve said on someone else’s blog. It’s difficult enough to manage all the tools as it is. It would be really cool if Technorati or WordPress would integrate it in their user interface behind the scenes, like in the dashboard.
I don’t want to clutter my index much more than it already is. If integrated, it would be handy and it wouldn’t require more actions from my part. But for those people who are commentbloggers, or for those who want to be able to browse through the history of their own thoughts outside their blog, here are 3 good comment tracking tools.

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BlogCode is a recommendation service that matches other blogs to the ones you read. If you register and log in, you can code blogs by means of a slidebar (image below). Doing so will help BlogCode to dertermine percentual results of blogs that are ‘like the one you just coded’. The setup to code a blog only takes a minute (or two if you’re a bit slow), in which you’re asked to answer about 20 to 30 simple questions. You answer the question by sliding the ball on the slidebar to the left or to the right.

BlogCode.com is a fast, easy and intuitive source of blog recommendations based on the StoryCode.com model. It allows you to start with your favourite weblog (or perhaps even your own) and find others like it. Recommendations are based not only on subject matter, but also on the style and input of the bloggers themselves – and their readers. Plus the recommendations are formed by the collective view of those who have read and enjoyed these same weblogs.

BlogCode also creates a code that allows you to display ‘matching’ blogs on your website. It takes 3 steps to set it up. First you enter the title of your blog, Second, you select it from the list and then generate the code by pressing the button next to the blog you were looking for. Last, you get an iframe code which you can place on your site. That looks like this:

The BlogCode blog-matching tool allows readers of your weblog to discover other weblogs similar to yours in terms of style, content and delivery.

It’s essentially a customised feed of the unique BlogCode system, as is designed to be a dynamic enhancement to your existing blogroll (as more people evaluate your weblogs and others, the matches for your weblog continue to improve).

Check out BlogCode. – via [Gert B.]