Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: October 14, 2008
Tags : disqus, Intense Debate, js-kit
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JS-Kit gets $3.6 million, Chris Saad

Commenting 2.0 provider JS-Kit has taken $3.6 million Series B in a round led by Altos Ventures that included earlier investor TEF3.

JS-Kit said it would use the new round to expand its developer and executive team. The first hiring is Chris Saad, founder of Faraday Media (Particls) and the Co-Founder of the DataPortability Project.

Its money at the right time for JS-Kit, as the worst of the economic crisis is yet to fully understood in terms of direct impact on the sector. JS-Kit is well positioned compared to some competitors, offering a variety of site specific widgets on top of its commenting 2.0 service.

We’ve not been a huge fan of JS-Kit in the past. The company felt it necessary to trash talk their opponents when they acquired Haloscan in July, and a constant need to attack your competition in my books says more about the company making the attacks then it does about the target. Saad will add some charisma to the mix, and despite his young age, some reasonable street smarts in the PR 101 playbook.

JS-Kit

alex

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Erin

i wouldnt call it trash talking. are you blowing it out of proportion because this blog is powered by Disqus? personally i am not a fan of danial ha ha ha and find their product to be intrusive. if what they say is true about losing comments, i dont see a use for any service within this niche.

Duncan Riley

Erin,
no argument with your personal preference, and sure, Disqus has had some hiccups. I have no relationship with Disqus though other than we use them and Daniel has been good to us in terms of direct support when we've needed it.

I do think though that if your product is strong enough, you'd be selling your product first, not trash talking the opposition as JS-Kit has in the past. For the record I don't think they've done it since, so maybe it was a lesson learned. This is a space that focuses on sharing and networks, it was just disappointing previously that JS-Kit didn't seem to embrace that aspect of the business.

Bulimia

Thanks for the info. May God have mercy on us all.

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