Intense Debate vs Disqus: Why I Nearly Switched

There's nothing worse as a blog owner to discover that your site isn't loading properly. Saturday night at 10pm my time (3am PST Saturday) just before I was going to switch off for the night, The Inquisitr ... continue

Obama’s Change includes support for Open ID

Could Open ID have received the change it needs to finally break out from the domain of open source nerds and open platform zealots? You don't get much higher than President-elect Barack Obama, and the change Open ... continue

JS-Kit lands Userplane deal

Commenting 2.0 and website widget provide JS-Kit has announced a new deal with Userplane that will see customers from both companies gaining access to new tools. The AOL owned Userplane offers a variety of free and premium publisher ... continue

SezWho announces enhanced features, new partnership with Instablogs

Commenting 2.0 service SezWho has today launched a number of new features, and announced a new partnership with Instablogs. New SezWho functionality includes four new profile templates, including support for popular threaded discussion formats. More importantly for site ... continue

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 ... continue

Disqus releases a full public API

Commenting 2.0 startup Disqus has launched a full public API for the first time, allow developers to build new tools that utilize Disqus. The API itself has been is use for sometime, with an official WordPress plugin using ... continue

Deals: Voxant, Intense Debate change hands

Two interesting acquisitions related to blogging this week: licensed video provider Voxant has changed hands along with commenting 2.0 service Intense Debate. Voxant offers licensed videos from media outlets, including AP for use on websites. For bloggers the ... continue

Disqus responds to critics: local comment hosting

2.0 commenting service Disqus today launches Disqus 2.0 with a range of new features including local comment hosting. One of the most common arguments against using Disqus has been the hosted nature of the service, with comments residing ... continue

SezWho Signs Deals with Entrecard, Creative Weblogging and Izea

Commenting 2.0 provider SezWho has signed distrubition deals with Entrecard, Creative Weblogging, and Izea that will see SezWho reputation profiles exposed to millions of new users. Entrecard's blog ad network has added SezWho as a way to ... continue

JS-Kit acquires HaloScan, but why trash talk Disqus?

Blog toolkit provider JS-Kit has acquired blog commenting service HaloScan. Haloscan offers a blog commenting system that competes in the commenting 2.0 space against Disqus, Sezwho, Intense Debate and JS-Kit itself. JS-Kit had previously partnered with Haloscan ... continue

Intense Debate Ups Comment Ante With FriendFeed Support

Plugin blog commenting provider Intense Debate has announced inline support for FriendFeed comments. With the new feature, Intense Debate users select FriendFeed from the control panel, enter their FriendFeed account details, and FriendFeed comments are then automatically included ... continue