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Talk about it. Thats what coComment allows you to do, talk and view what you have spoken about and where. I stumbled across this interesting site on Paul Stamatiou’s blog. Straight out of the horses mouth, here is how coComment explains itself:

coComment is a service which will help you track, organize, and share all your comment-based conversations on the web.

I am currently signing up to make use of coComment and will provide updates as I get in to using it. Apparently the way it works is that everytime you post a comment on any site (Blog, Flickr, News site etc) coComment will make a copy of the comment and save it in your personal folder at coComment. You can then visit this folder and trackback your own progression through conversations. You can also be alerted to any new comments on the same thread.

I think this is a fantastic tool since I spend alot of time checking back on sites that I have made comments as well as checking my mail for alerts on threads.

More to come soon.

TechAttacks are not necessarily attacks on software or websites that I dont understand. TechAttack #2 is a look at a program that has revolutionised the way I get music.

I have spoken about Last FM before in Music 2.0 and an update, with regards to finding new music and integrating myself in to a community where music is the master. Well once I have found and listened to the music that Last FM finds for me I make us of Limewire to download them.

Limewire is quick and easy to instal, its easy to search and find music and easy to download. Search areas include Album, Song, Band, Genre type and License type. You can also use it to search for and dowload Images, Videos, Programs and Documents. Downloading times vary depending on the available connection with a file. T3 is the fastest connection (not sure what that stands for. kinda makes me think of Arnie and the metal face) then you have T1, cable/dsl and modem. Find the file you are looking for, double click and save away! Here is a screenshot of my Limewire as I search for the band Live

Limewire also makes use of “swarm” downloading, which means that the file is downloaded from multiple sourced simultaneously. Very cool, very fast, very effective. I like, Alot.

Now I know all the copyright issues surrounding this program, I get it, the music industry suffers. I also know that it isn’t the big “cash cow” bands that are affected by this, it’s the little bands who are just starting out that get screwed. Technically. I believe that bands have much to gain by using the web as a resource to create a fan base. The perfect example is Myspace where bands are launching albums and singles to the Myspace community before anyone else. Brilliant idea I think. A good example is a band that I found through Ange on myspace called Cartwheel Club, just launched and have thousands of listens per song.

I think that programs like LimeWire need to make the music industry big wigs wake up and smell the 2.0.

This is the first in a string of TechAttacks that I will be posting to gain some insight and help from other bloggers more “in the know” than I am.

To begin:

Technorati. What the hell is this little beaut of a site supposed to do. I thought that I knew, I thought I had it all under control, but I don’t think that I do. I thought that it was supposed to help me see who is linking to my blog, to gather my favourite blogs and tell me who’s saying what, when and how. I know that it does do all of this, but I just dont think that I am gaining the full usage of this web-tool.

So if there is anyone out there who know’s better than me please help me out. This is my attempt at acknowledging that I am a helpless surfer who is living a farce.

More TechAttacks to come so keep an eye out and send me some advice.

I have just downloaded a couple of Flock extensions that have made me very happy. One is the international weather forecaster, the best one I’ve used yet. The other is a built in media player controller so I never have to leave the browser, even to change music. Then I have the “Performancing” tool, which is a pop-up tool at the footer of the browser that you click and it opens up your regular looking blogger interface for posting. It looks, feels and works just like blogger and hopefully will continue to do so.

Loving Flock inspite of trying Firefox 2.0. For some reason FF2 or any FF for that matter stalls a heck of a lot on my laptop. Not blaming FF at all, its probably something stupid I did, but the other browsers (Opera, IE7 and Flock) that I have tried work fine.

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