Roundup: Cisco’s mixed results, Hitwise election site stats, and more
Cisco does a little better than expected — Sales fell 9 percent in October, compared to a year earlier, the computer networking giant reported yesterday; the company expects sales to drop up to 10 percent this quarter versus the $9.8 billion a year ago. Yet “[i]n our opinion, the U.S. will be the first major country to recover,” chief executive John Chambers said. More at the New York Times.
Hitwise: Yahoo wins presidential election web site traffic —… Continue Reading
SezWho lets you have say on blog commenters
Updated
Ever notice how some blogs are filled with mean-spirited, crude or self-serving comments, while others have few comments at all?
Palo Alto’s SezWho, a service that lets you build a reputation based on the quality of your online comments, thinks it can change that. It launched a test version publicly last week.
The company offers a widget that plugs into a blog’s comment board and adds the question “Was this comment useful to you?” after every reader’s… Continue Reading
CoComment: the Switzerland of the comment-sphere
CoComment launched last year, giving bloggers a way to track comments about topics across Web sites — without actually having to visit each site.
The company reports growth, saying users find it useful to follow conversations from a single place: Their profile page at CoComment (see here for example).
However, it is difficult to gauge how sustainable the growth will be. More on that later.
Today, it’s launching new features. Publishers can offer CoComment on their sites, so… Continue Reading