DISQUS

It doesn't use '/', but if you the use the service http://mapme.at to track your location then you can already update your location just by putting it in '(...)' in your tweets. See http://blog.mapme.at/2008/09/21/maintaining-you... for a better explanation of how it works.

co.mments.com (not CoComment) was perfect for this - you clicked a little bookmarklet when you were on a page with comments you wanted to track, and it gave you an RSS feed of any new comments that arrived.

Sadly it's just closed down, so I'm similarly on the lookout for something. I've been trying BackType (IIRC) of late, but don't think much of it so far - most of the time it tells me it doesn't support whatever blog I'm trying to track, and even on the few times it's worked I haven't seen anything appear in the RSS feed.

I wonder how easy it would be to be to write one? Take your delicious hack for the input and scrape the pages to look for new comments...

I'm going to be busy moving boxes around for the next two days, but if you still haven't got it sorted by Friday, drop me a line and I'm sure I can help out with the regexps.

I'll second http://co.mments.com/

I tried coComments when it first launched, but wasn't impressed as it only seemed to show me other comments left by coComments users. co.mments.com will show me all the comments left on a post.

And as you click on a bookmarklet independently of posting a comment, it won't ever get in the way of you leaving a comment! (and you can track comments on posts that you haven't commented on yourself)

I think "Outside the Valley" is the best idea - it'll stop you from falling back on an easy these-guys-are-just-round-the-corner approach. But I'm biased, I'm outside the Valley so would be able to star in it ;-)

What do the filled in spreadsheets feed into? I tend to use one spreadsheet which lists all the tasks for the project, regardless of who is scheduled to perform them - (the theory being) it gives everyone an idea of what there is to be done, and what other people are doing.

Then, once a week, I get the team together for a brief meeting where we quickly go round each team member and fill in what they've done for the week. The added benefit being that you get everyone together providing an opportunity to raise issues and generally improve communication within the team.