Creative Online Marketing, Link Building and Ecommerce

I used the !jocomment on on of my client sites - check it out  - http://www.visionomics.com/Leading-With-Leading-Measurements.html

It installed without any issues and does what is says. It's easy to set up and you can get your site's commenting system going in minutes. However, I am not too impressed. Today's web 2.0 Internet users are used to the slick commenting options in Wordpress, Type-pad and other blogging platforms. They are not going to feel too motivated to comment with !jocomment. The user interface is the biggest issue in my opinion. It's just not sophisticated and enticing enough to get people to comment. Just my personal opinion.

If this component gets much better, then it has a huge market out there though. There are tons of mojoblog and My Blog users, both of which have their limitations as explained in my post here. If I had the option, I would much rather use pure Joomla components that were written from scratch instead of using bridges or wordpress-flavored products that interface with Joomla. Similarly to !jocomment, most other blogging features (Rafcloud for example) are availble as Joomla components or modules, they are just not good enough yet in my opinion.