SezWho Partners with BlogCatalog for Distribution of Comment Reputation System

Makes sense. Not sure who gets to benefit the most. SezWho or BlogCatalog.

We’re doing the same thing with SezWho, and I can tell you the SW guys are getting a tonne out of it, because they get more profiles, more visibility and more reach. And for a widget company releasing their first tool, that’s critical.

They’ll certainly use that data and reach to build even bigger and better tools going forward. The comment rating tool is just Step 1 for them.

ps: the SezWho guys are a great team, very focussed on meeting partner’s expectations, so it’s our privilege to work with them.

SezWho is a great system. I use it and have used it on other sites.

Are they doing anything to help take care of the comment spam that is going through blog catalog and SezWho?

The value provided by SezWho to publishers is negligible. For one, it rarely gets used, totally defeating the point of reputation. Secondly, it is not appealing at all to the eye. The design is bad. Lastly, their site is woefully behind when it comes to usability and features.

I would encourage Jeremy to look at prior user cases before b5 gets involved with them.

Just ask Read/Write Web why they took it down after a few weeks of using it…

Bill,

SezWho does help with Spam…Check out Andy C’s post regarding SezWho:

http://www.nbrightside.com/blo.....of-sezwho/

It helps identify trolls and provides a mechanism to hold them accountable…

-Jitendra

pleaz put on techcrunch tooo
so mani lame commentz

Is that why there are so few comments on CrunchGear? CNET has useful user reviews, but you wouldn’t know it from TC’s “unbiased” CNET bashing.

Interesting development, thanks for the news! Blogcatalog is a great networking site for bloggers it will be interesting to see what dimensions Sezwho adds.

blogcatalog is way better then mybloglog for bloggers looking to network and promote blogs. this is great news.

only thing blogcatalog needs to add is stat counter. If they do that, then there’s no need to use mybloglog. it’s a damn shame. yahoo should have done something with mybloglog. you’d figure that all that new money would make a site better not worse. worst thing about mybloglog is that it’s very slow. and even with all those restrictions, they still can’t stop the spam.

@6 I agree, its hideous. I like disqus comments better. Much, much prettier design.

#6, #13

You are focussing on the wrong thing. The design can be fixed based on the theme - that is what the themes are for.

The main issue especially for the professional blogs is that they want to maintain the ownership of their data and add services they like on top of it…They want to make sure that their existing applets/infrastructure like recent comments etc. still work. Adding a system like Disqus doesn’t really work for these sites because their comment data is going to a different site that competes with them for page views.

Having said that I do agree that Disqus is a good hobby system. The only thing I don’t really like their insistence on having the exact same layout on all sites regardless of the theme. Would like to see some more customizability there.

May be they could do it for blogspot also ? That would give them more data, specially coz blogspot also supports OpenId.
They can do something like this.
http://dy-verse.blogspot.com/2.....esign.html

I’m a fan of SezWho, I like how it works on CrunchGear. What concerns me though as a blogger is that then the content resides on SezWho’s servers and it would seem that could hurt my Google PR.

David,

The comments don’t reside on SezWho server…Actually the comments stay on the system that hosts the blog…So there is no question of hurting your pagerank…Actually SezWho is going to help your pr by providing you links from SezWho.com (a PR 6 domain) back to your site via profile pages like the link below.

http://sezwho.com/mypublicprof.....Acz57riAk=

-Jitendra

I would encourage Jeremy to look at prior user cases before b5 gets involved with them.