SezWho’s raises $1 million for commenting app
By Vivek | October 31st, 2007 at 04:09 pm ET
Blog commenting app space is finally turning the corner. Yesterday we wrote about launch of blog/site commenting application Disqus and today another competing service SezWho informed us about closing of it’s Series A round of funding. The company has raised $1 million from KPG Ventures.
From competition standpoint Js-Kit has raised $1.2 million in seed funding, Intense Debate is funded by Techstars, while Disqus seems to have raised money but are not officially coming out with the news right now.
Coming back to SezWho, apart from the funding the startup also introduced two new widgets - The Red Carpet widget that lets communities feature top-rated participants on a virtual red carpet. Each avatar links to individual profiles that provide a history of comments, associated articles or pages, and the overall ranking for each. Besides that a new SezWho badge lets contributors display their personal rating and expertise portfolio on their blogs or other sites to reinforce an earned reputation.
To add a bit more, SezWho now also provides statistics for both contributors and site owners. This includes number people rating and viewing a contributor’s profile, and traffic SezWho is driving and where that traffic is coming from.
on November 4th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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on November 21st, 2007 at 9:02 am
Statistics are always good to look at.
on December 7th, 2007 at 3:18 am
I can see where some site owners would use it if they got some good data from the plug-in. Revenue for Sezwho? Not sure about that side of things.