JS-Kit Officially Renamed Echo, Continues To Innovate With Real-Time Commenting System

With the success of the JS-Kit Commenting System "Echo"  it was only a matter of time before the company took on the name full time. Now JS-Kit will be known from this point forward as "Echo." Echo provides ... continue

JS-Kit Echo commenting platform updated

Third party comment platform provider JS-Kit (we use it here at The Inquisitr) has shipped a new version of the service. Among the new stuff is the ability to use your Friendfeed information as a login as ... continue

Why we’re giving JS-Kit’s Echo a shot

As of a few hours ago, comments here on The Inquisitr are powered by JS-Kit's new Echo commenting and social aggregation service. It's not without a little bit of irony that after criticizing JS-Kit last year that they're ... continue

And then there was three: JS-Kit acquires SezWho

In the biggest shakeup to hit the commenting 2.0 space so far, JS-Kit has announced the acquisition of rival SezWho. The acquisition was made after SezWho was unable to raise a new round needed to continue operations. Under the ... continue

JS-Kit and coComment form Strategic Partnership

Blogging 2.0 services coComment and JS-Kit has announced a strategic partnership that will see both promote each others products. Under the deal, coComment will automatically track comments from all sites using JS-Kit commenting on a opt-in/out basis, allowing ... 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

SezWho lands b5media entertainment blogs

Blogging 2.0 comment service SezWho has signed a deal with b5media that will see SezWho rolled out on b5media's entertainment blogs. b5media's entertainment blogs have long been the backbone of the network in terms of traffic, delivering millions ... 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

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