Vizu Corporation announced last week the completion of its $1 million Series A round of financing led by WR Hambrecht & Co. through its venture fund with participation from Amicus Capital and other angel investors.

Vizu Corporation, a company that combines interactive Internet-based polls with elements of social networking to create a place where the world shares its blogs and opinions, announced last week the completion of its $1 million Series A round of financing led by WR Hambrecht & Co. through its venture fund with participation from Amicus Capital and angel investors.

"Being able to quickly and easily aggregate and organize people's opinions is a powerful concept and will change the types of information people look to the web to provide," said Bill Hambrecht, Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO of WR Hambrecht & Co. "We are delighted to be financing Vizu's technology platform and user growth."

Esther Dyson said, "It would be a cheap and easy comparison, but yes, you could call Vizu a Flicker for polls. It doesn't just measure opinion; it provokes it. Vizu gets people involved and lets them self-organize around their opinions. Sometimes they get polarized, but mostly it does a good job of getting people to think about their beliefs - whether it's the choice of a wedding dress or the choice of a president." Dyson adds, "From a technical perspective, Vizu lets communities make their content accessible wherever they are rather than just where Vizu is."

Mack Tilling, Chairman and CEO of Vizu, added that: "businesses and individuals can use Vizu to investigate sentiment on all manner of issues, and literally see what the world thinks. Never before has it been so easy for anyone to tap into public opinion and the wisdom of crowds."