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Monica,

also the double avatars is because of Gravatar and Sezwho avatars both showing up. You can turn off either of these avatars to address the issue you are having.

Thanks, Jitendra

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Hey,

Thanks for the mention and sorry to see you have issues with SezWho.

We are really looking to engage the community at blogs by providing context and people based content discovery around comments. This should certainly add to the activity on your site and generate additional page views.

We love feedback from the user so let us know if there is anything we can do to add to the product etc.

Thanks, Jitendra
SezWho (jitendra@sezwho.com)

Andy,

Good points...BTW SezWho also provides ability to track your comment within FF if one wants. (see http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/05/26/how-to-ge...)

Duncan,

Thanks for the mention. We believe that taking comments out of the context of the conversation really does not help the conversation...instead it adds to the noise. To reduce the noise what is needed is to add more context to the place where the content is being created and consumed...This is the reason why SezWho provides a service that keeps the content where it is created and consumed. As a result with our approach, site owners don't have to worry about getting their content back with-in their system if they are unhappy with a service, and they don't have to worry about indexing/double-indexing issues etc. irrespective of the platform they are using.

That is my 2 cents worth :-)
-jitendra

Louis,

Interesting point...I tend to believe that blog comments and conversation on other social sites like forums, wikis etc. are all part of conversation...but for I do believe that the context for the blog comments comes from the post and taking them out can really be confusing...

my 2 cents :-)

-jitendra

Hey Jitendra from SezWho here...Keep SezWho in mind as well..We provide universal profile services without taking over your comments data and locking them in a walled garden...So there are no SEO/ownership impliations.

Thanks, Jitendra

Duncan, That is certainly an improvement...you might want to make sure that double indexing of content is not an issue with Google...And you have a strategy in place to reimport your comments in case you need to avoid data lock-in...Thanks, Jitendra

Hey Duncan, Jitendra from SezWho here...Losing control of ones comments (and SEO benefits and freshness etc. of your site - important for Google or TechMeme etc.) is really not needed to get all the community/threading features provided by Disqus. SezWho provides all the community/context services without taking over your content...In addition there are a number of other plugins that will replicate the other features of a comment replacement system without replacing your comments (E.g. Brian Threaded comments for threaded discussion etc.)... My 2 cents.

Thanks, Jitendra

Hey Jitendra from SezWho here...Interesting post...I think by adding the context SezWho etc. make the conversation richer...although I am not sure these platforms in themselves are conversation platform (more like context platforms)...As such blog platforms etc. are not likely to be replaced by context platforms...

-Jitendra

This seems good...We should be all set.

-Jitendra

Hey Andy, Great discussion...This is Jitendra from SezWho. You guys should check-out SezWho...With Sezwho you get the the context and reputation on commenters without losing control of your content or having to deal with tricky SEO or data ownership issues. Also all your favorite widgets that rely on your comment data still work...

Also with the latest release we have cleanup the UI while improving on our core reputation engine functionality. Feel free to drop me a line if you have an issue.

thanks, Jitendra

Hey David, Jitendra from SezWho here...Just wanted to drop in to see how things were looking and working out...Please let me know if you run into issues or have any feedback on our service.

Thanks, Jitendra

Hey, Thanks for the mention...There are still a couple more issues with the display of the excerpts and some ratings issue...I'll update you shortly.

oops...I meant "We are working on a template/skin for threaded comments for the comments" -Jitendra

Scott,

Thanks for trying out SezWho and for a good analysis. We are working on a template for threaded comments where the comments...This skin would provide a standard look for comments with threading but would keep the comments within your system and thereby avoid all SEO issues.

Thanks, Jitendra (SezWho)

Scott,

with both ID and Disqus the comments are stored on their server and as a result you lose out in terms of page rank (for google)...

Take a look at
http://scobleizer.com/2007/12/11/bloggers-disqu...

SezWho on the other hand is context, ratings and reputation service rather then a comment replacement system...so the comments stay where they belog...Also the sync is really automatic, you just activate the plugin and sezwho indexes your existing comments to get you up and running in minutes...Also no migration means you can turn it off anytime as well in case you don't like it without worrying about any sync issues again.

Thanks, Jitendra

Jason,

You raise a great point...Google Juice vs some nice comment features...I suggest you take a look at SezWho (http://www.sezwho.com) to see how you can get those nice features of added context, added interactions etc. without giving up pagerank etc.

Thanks, Jitendra

See my take at
http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/03/18/disqus-ra...

Revjim, this is an issue with centralized systems...they introduce a single point of failure to your system...one you have no control over...

We at SezWho believe in distributed mashups to build robust best of the breed systems...Take a look and let me know what you think?

Thanks, Jitendra

Revjim, take a look at SezWho as well...We provide the value in terms of connecting the conversations across sites without really taking over the whole comment system ... So you don't lose critical functionality like Trackbacks and other widgets like top commenters, recent comments etc. Also with the content on your site, you keep the page rank juice and page views on your sites as well.

Thanks...When you start organizing content around people who create it, a lot of interesting things start happening.

-Jitendra

Thanks for trying and let me know what you like and don't like?

Jitendra from SezWho

Deepak,

I am not seeing 1/2 a sec increase in terms of load time? It seems to be more like 200-300ms...

Also check out the profile link? Are you seeing additional page views coming from Sezwho based on the commenter based cross connections?

Also check out the stats page for your blog in your account to see how much usage you are seeing?

And let me know?

thanks,
Jitendra
SezWho

Andy, Jitendra from SezWho (thanks for the install and it looks great)...We find that most users are overwhelmed with the number of browser plugins that do all sort of things...We considered having a browser plugin (and we might very well have one in the future) but decided that pitching our value directly to the site owners was a better way to go...

Also let me know what you think of Sezwho and how your users like it...also check out your stats at the sezWho my account page...

-Jitendra

Dave, I think you make a great point in #4. We at SezWho think that comment data really belongs to the bloggers and the bloggers really do not want a commenting system competing with them for traffic. We provide a context, rating and reputation service that works with the existing comment system. This provides incentives to all participants in social media interactions:

Site Owners: Get a more engaged community (We a number of cases we have increase the number of interactions within the community by over 100%) and get additional traffic because of commenter based content discovery (http://sezwho.com/aboutus.php#traffic)
Commenter: Portable credibility across sites
Readers: able to find good content from bad quickly - also get able to find context on commenters.

Check it out at http://www.sezwho.com

Steven,

SezWho is not a comment replacement system instead we believe in letting sites stay in control of their data...We think platforms like WP, MT etc. do a good job or managing comment data. And what is needed are some value added services instead of adding another point of failure to the system.

Also we do not believe in competing with the sites we are on for traffic by building a destination site. Instead we focus on driving additional traffic back to the site by integrating our functions tightly into the site.

Thanks, Jitendra (SezWho)
(PS: with SezWho you don't need to worry if this comment is going to make it through the SPAM filtering or not ;-) )