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By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:07:50 +0000

Andrew.

We are working on it.

Thanks,
Jitendra

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:04:59 +0000

Jitendra, thanks very much for providing the CoComment contrast. That helps.
Have you asked Automattic about making SezWho available for WordPress.com blogs?

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:41:02 +0000

Chimp,

This service is not only for high traffic blog but also for blogs that don’t have a very high traffic or a lot of comments. The reason SezWho can help blogs that don’t have a lot of comments is by connecting those blogs with other popular blogs based on what ever existing comments are there. This is expected to drive traffic to all sites (a lot more incremental traffic to small sites). Let’s take an example: suppose there is a blog that is recently launched and has only of few readers and commenters but some of these commenters are members of good standing in the community (whatever community the blog is a part of), for our example, let’s say tech community. Now imagine a comment on that new blog makes a good comment on WWD…If WWD has SezWho as well, the link to the new blog will show up in the profile of the commenter on WWD and is gonna drive traffic of people wanting to find our more about the commenter…So SezWho kinda works like an automated word-of-mouth mechanism to get word about a small blog based on the commenters.

Ric, WWD need to be using the SezWho widget to show commenter profiles…We are trying to connect with Om to get that working….

Jitendra
SezWho

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By: Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:49:54 +0000

Here’s my piece on SezWho:
http://sramanamitra.com/2007/07/19/a-service-for-active-netizens/

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Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:22:28 +0000

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By: chimp

chimp — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:20:40 +0000

you missed the biggest problems..
1. most of the blogs don’t have many comments and enough visitors to have meaningful voting/ranking..for the ones who have be it dailykos or weblogs blogs or gawker media or mashable they have something in house..bloggers are known to be penny pincher so even if others decide to have it they will build something of their own..btw, boing boing does this comments in very smart way..
2. ppl who comment often and are very active will always make sure their comments also rank high …they obviously have time of their lifetime to play such games..people who post occasionally will get ignored..also occasional legit commenter might get brunt of these UGC champs..it will hurt blogger in long run because conversations will be monotonous

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By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:01:49 +0000

Mike,

Great Analysis…We do have the chicken and egg problem but to a lot lesser degree than usual…the reason is that when we go up on a site, we connect the existing older posts on the site with the new posts (all within the same blog) based on the commenters. These links are then visible to any user who sees the profile of a commenter on a new post. By showing these links within the context of newer discussions and on demands, we drive traffic within the blog from new posts to older posts…

Also what we see is that a lot of the commenters on a blog are repeat commenters and as a result there are plenty of links for everybody to see and click on…We have seen this drive a fair amount of traffic to a blog … even without us having a whole lot of data.

Good tip on promoting the existing sites…We are going to do more of that.

Thanks,
Jitendra
SezWho

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:14:04 +0000

I use coComment a lot, and love it, but I’m not sure it has the same rating facility. Perhaps Jitendra and Laurent should talk about loading up coComment’s existing data to get SezWho off the ground quickly?

(PS – why can’t I use SezWho here on WWD?)

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:22:24 +0000

The main difference is that SezWho drives the traffic related to comments to the site where as CoComment provides the service for commenters by consolidating all the comments in one place…As such SezWho sells to Site owners where as coComments sells to commenters by mostly providing the service via a browser tool bar…

You be the judge…Jitendra

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:39:41 +0000

Does CoComment allow folks to rate individual comments and display that rating right in the post? That seems to be the big difference between the two services.

I’m not sure I like the idea of “rating” individual comments. It’s such a subjective measure. As we’ve seen on Digg, sometimes the most inane and nearly offensive comments get dugg up simply according to where the mob mentality is at that given moment. The value of one’s comments are different depending on the blog and I’m not sure an overall rating across multiple sites is a very good measure of credibility, especially if not a lot of sites are using the system.

By: Michael R. Bernstein

Michael R. Bernstein — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:28:27 +0000

Seems similar to CoComment.

By: joshuakaufman

joshuakaufman — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:12:48 +0000

coComment has been doing almost the same thing for a while now and has a decent sized user base. It would take some pretty awesome features for me to switch.