Comments on: Gizmoz Social Expression Service Raises $6.3 Million

By: nesh thompson

nesh thompson — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:11:41 +0000

Hi Bill, always in favour of new ways of meeting and creating dialogue online, however, I don’t see this catching on in some business sectors. I know that some UK based companies wouldn’t dream of employing such a tool. Was wondering what your thoughts on the actual effectiveness of using such methods of communication are, or perhaps it isn’t meant to be used as a business communication tool?

By: Tinu

Tinu — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:36:53 +0000

That sounds rocking, Bill. I don’t mind the actual fact of the costume, I just had a hard time finding a better face. Maybe if it takes off you could do a screencast demo for us? And I love how you can use your own pic for the face.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:28:25 +0000

Tinu, I’ve played around with it a little bit, and there are a lot of options that you can skip, like changing your hair color and changing other parts of you. I’m pretty sure you can use the default for many things, although you would need some sort of “costume” or “body”. Otherwise, you’d be just a face and that’s not very funny.

By: Tinu

Tinu — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:23:01 +0000

It’s kind of wacky and fun. But I wish that I could skip the costume step in creating the Answering Machine.

By: coRank

coRank — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:49:22 +0000

Gizmoz Social Expression Service Raises $6.3 Million…

Gizmoz has recently secured a $6.3 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and Columbia Capital. Gizmoz is a social expression and user-generated media service. Gizmoz offers a new generation of character-based visual expressionâ€“for use ac…