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Web 2.0 startup Pageflakes has been dabbling in some unappealing and sneaky marketing. Are they hoping no one will notice?? Have you been spammed by Pageflakes yet?

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Every time you post a comment in any blog that has the plugin installed, myComments alerts via RSS all the other conversation members. plugins for Wordpress and Textpattern, but there's an API documented so anyone can create his own plugin ;).

Technology Evangelist Robert Sanzalone discusses his discovery of coComment, a hot, new, free web 2.0 service to keep track of your comments on other people's blogs and feeds.

From the page: "Basically, readers should see these lists of “individuals” with over 300 RSS feeds as people who don’t actually read much, they just like to subscribe to stuff and let the river flow past them. Look, I’m cool, I am subscribed to 2,000+ RSS feeds and want to tell the world about it. I guess this is another form of marketing, which makes sense why Danny Ayers has 2,549 feeds, just don’t believe for a second he actually follows and pays attention to that many....."

"The Slash RSS 1.0 module augments the RSS core and Dublin Core module's metadata with channel and item-level elements specific to Slash-based sites".