Intense Debate is a blog commenting system that supports Typepad, Blogger and WordPress blogs. The system allows blog owners to track and moderate comments from one place with features like threading, comment analytics, user reputation and comment aggregation.
Intense Debate offers blog readers a powerful networking system to establish reputations, link their profiles, make friends and syndicate their comments. It will create a “[mini-blogging platform](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/intense-debate-soups-up-your-blog-comments/)” that will hold commenters responsible for their comments across various blogs. I’m sure the service will help jumpstart a couple superstar commenter careers.
The company is currently in private beta mode. It is also an incubating startup for [TechStars](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/techstars). Competitors include [CoComment](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cocomment), [JS-Kit](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/jskit), [SezWho](http://sezwho.com) and [Tangler](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tangler).
David G. Cohen is the Founder and CEO of [TechStars](/company/techstars), a mentorship-driven seed stage investment firm.
He has founded four companies, including Pinpoint Technologies (Broomfield, CO, public safety software, acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation in 1999), iContact.com (Boulder, CO, mobile social networking, defunct), earFeeder.com (Boulder, CO, acquired by SonicSwap) and TechStars.
He is also an active angel investor nationally managing about $70M in funding. He invests primarily in early stage web/software companies through his $5 million fund.
David blogs at [DavidGCohen.com](http://www.davidgcohen.com/).
Co-Founder, User Interface Designer at IntenseDebate
Developer at IntenseDebate