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| May 28, 2010 | Chris Saad: “Facebook’s Claims About Data Portability Are False” | Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook’s recent privacy changes were not nefarious, but rather an unselfish pursuit of “a concept called data portability.”
As the one of the people who popularized that concept in relation ... |
| May 12, 2010 | Slate, Time, WashPo And Other Big-Name Publishers Add The Echo Comment Platform | Back in December, we covered the rebranding of the startup previously known as JS-Kit, which has now assumed the name of its flagship product, Echo. Echo is a real-time commenting platform that allows users to log in using a variety of acco... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | BackType Now Filters Out Boring Tweets, Launches New WordPress Plugin | Conversations around blog posts now often happen offsite on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Sadly, a lot of plugins that try to bring these conversation back to the blog end up being somewhat useless, as large numbers of retweets... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Google Brings Friend Connect, Social Features to Drupal & Joomla | Google has just announced that its powerfully social Friend Connect features are now available for open-source content management systems Drupal and Joomla.
Google Friend Connect (GFC) allows sites with these CMSes to integrate many social ... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | JS-Kit Finally Ditches Its Name, Rebrands As Echo With Some Big Partners In Tow | Last July, we covered the initial debut of JS-Kit’s Echo, a real-time commenting system.This morning during a media conference call, the CEO Khris Loux announced that in light of the success of the product (and likely because many people ha... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Top 10 Startup Products of 2009 | There were a ton of great products launched in 2009 by big companies and startups alike, but in this post we focus on the best products released by startups.
The easiest way to become a leading product in your industry is to meet a need bet... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009 | The web isn’t about pages any more. Now it’s about streams, feeds and syndication. As part of our annual Best of Series, below are our picks for the most important RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2009.
You can see last year’s list here ... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Salmon Protocol for Distributed, Real-Time Content Expands with Open-Source Project | The Internet is a mess these days.
Conversations are distributed and fragmented; a blog post’s comments will almost surely appear on a number of sites other than the author’s blog. Considering factors from Facebook shares, likes, and posts ... |
| Sep 27, 2009 | Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies | As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we’re listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web. Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies – so we in... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | TweetMeme Improves Ranking Engine, Comments With 2.0 Release | TweetMeme, the quickly-growing site that lists the most popular links on Twitter, is launching an overhauled version today that the startup is calling TweetMeme V2. The company says that today’s release includes “a total rewrite” of its sco... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Echo won’t kill comments — they’re already dead | This is a guest post by Nicolas Holzapfel of stealth mode startup Yoomoot. Throughout the summer we’re running guest posts we like – exclusive to TechCrunch Europe – written by people on the tech scene in Europe. If you’d like to contribute... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Echo Won’t Kill Comments — They Died A Long Time Ago | This is a guest post by Nicolas Holzapfel of stealth mode startup Yoomoot. Throughout the summer we’re running guest posts we like – exclusive to TechCrunch Europe – written by people on the tech scene in Europe. If you’d like to contribute... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Kutano pops Twitter into its commenting system | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kutano, a commenting system that travels where yo... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Kutano pops Twitter into its commenting system | Kutano, a commenting system that travels where you go on the web, is integrating Twitter so when visitors reach a page they can see what others have said about it on the microblogging network.
Kutano is a bookmark plug-in that works by trac... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System | Only a month after rival comment system JS-Kit launched Echo, a real-time comment system, Disqus is striking back with its biggest upgrade since the service launched. Along with a revamped comment system, Disqus 3.0 is also what CEO Daniel ... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Testing The Reverberations Of ECHO Commenting On TechCrunch | “We’re here today to announce the death of comments.”
That’s what JS-Kit CEO Khris Loux said in his opening remarks at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp earlier this month. He went on to unveil ECHO, JS-Kit’s new take on how conversations shoul... |
| Jul 15, 2009 | Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW’s Road Trip Resources | After publishing her book about social capital and the power of social networking,The Whuffie Factor, Tara Hunt is doing what any change agent does. She’s changing. She’s quit her job, purchased a winnebago and coerced five friends to karao... |
| Jul 12, 2009 | Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun | At the recent Real-Time CrunchUp 2009, Khris Loux, CEO of one of the web’s largest commenting services, announced the
“death of the comment”. This declaration was extremely significant as Loux’s JS-Kit is currently installed on over 600,000... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | JS-Kit's Real-Time Commenting Widget Echo Captures The Pulse Of Comments On The Web | Comments are taking on a life of their own now as Facebook Connect and other modes of commenting communication become increasingly popular. Comments are evolving into what some say are “social gestures,” instead of conventional comments and... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. | Wow. April Fools Is In full swing.
The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | JS-Kit nabs SezWho as blog comment services converge | Blog commenting services have been consolidating over the past year, thinning out a once crowded market. Most recently, JS-Kit, maker of blog widgets for polls, ratings and comments, acquired competing commenting company SezWho — which itse... |
| Mar 7, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s homepages, check out Yahoo’s answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon’s eReader Kindle, analyze... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Comment Consolidation: JS-Kit Acquires SezWho | JS-Kit, a company that offers an array of Javascript-based commenting, polling, and ratings widgets, is acquiring the assets of SezWho, a competing enhanced comment system. JS-Kit will continue to keep SezWho’s service running for the next ... |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Yahoo! Launches Major Challenge to Facebook Connect | Yahoo! Updates, the company’s answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with the launch of a new partnership with commenting infrastructure company JS-Kit. Whereas Facebook’s technology for tying profi... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Facebook Gets Into The Widget Business With New Comments Box | Facebook has just launched its first widget for Facebook Connect, its recently-introduced platform that allows users to authenticate themselves using their Facebook logins. Dubbed ‘Comments Box’, the new widget allows site owners to integra... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Facebook Launches Commenting Widget | Facebook launched its first social widget for use outside of Facebook’s own site today: the Comments Box. The Comments Box is a comments widget that was built on top of Facebook Connect, and that will allow bloggers and publishers to easily... |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Widget Powerhouse JS-Kit Strikes Deal With Sun Microsystems | Widget provider JS-Kit has struck a deal with software vendor Sun Microsystems to provide cross-platform widgets to Sun’s internal and external properties. JS-Kit offers rating, polling, commenting and widgets that can be ad-supported or ad... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | JS-Kit Introduces Picture Comments, Embraces OpenID 2.0 | Cross-platform feedback widgets maker JS-Kit just added a feature that enables users to enhance comments with pictures, on any of the 600,000+ websites using its custom commenting system. I’ve always been curious to know why major blogging ... |
| Dec 21, 2008 | BackType Subscriptions Monitors Comments by Blog Post | BackType, the free service that aggregates all of the comments you make across the Web, launched a new feature last week called Subscriptions which lets you follow comments by blog post.
BackType Subscriptions sends you an e-mail with updat... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Soon, All Your Blog Comments Will Belong To Facebook (Or Google) | There are way too many comment login systems out there. Each blogging platform (WordPress, Typepad, Blogger) has its own login system, then there are the cross-platform commenting systems like Disqus and JS-KIT. But many of these will soon ... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | IntenseDebate Goes Public Again, Releases WordPress Plugin | IntenseDebate, the enhanced commenting system that was recently acquired by WordPress’s parent company Automattic, has relaunched to the public (the service originally opened its doors in late 2007, but reentered private beta as soon as it ... |
| Nov 8, 2008 | Conversation Consolidation: JS-Kit To Acquire coComment? (Update: No) | We’re still looking to confirm, but alarm:clock says they’ve learned that web widget provider JS-Kit has agreed to acquire conversation tracking service coComment.
Update: looks like alarm:clock jumped the shark gun on this one. coComment C... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | JS-Kit Teams With Userplane In Widget Distribution Partnership | Widget developer JS-Kit has joined with AOL’s Userplane in a widget cross-distribution partnership that should significantly increase the potential userbases for both companies.
Both companies produce popular sets of widgets that can be eas... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | SezWho Gets Chatty With Instablogs, Releases Upgrade | SezWho, a comment enhancement plugin, has launched a new release that incorporates a number of new features, and also also announced a partnership with citizen journalist portal Instablogs.
Instablogs originally launched as a blog network b... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Bringing Data Portability to a Website Near You: An Interview With Chris Saad About JS-Kit | If cookies were the multi-billion dollar magic for much of the web’s first iteration, tiny technologies to power conversation could play a similar role in the future of business online. More fun than that, though, is the innovation we hope ... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Widget Maker JS-Kit Closes $3.6 Million Series B Round | JS-Kit, a startup that develops a series of widgets that can be quickly integrated into websites, has raised $3.6 million in a Series B funding round led by Altos Ventures, with existing investor TEF3 also participating. The company says th... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Third Party Comment Systems Go Mainstream | Last summer, I got an email from Paul Graham saying that one of the Y Combinator teams wanted to launch something on this blog. It was a third party comment system called Disqus. I love getting my hands on new technology, particularly new s... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate's Enhanced Comment System | Today at the TechStars demo day, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, announced that it has acquired enhanced commenting system IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount.
WordPress has long been in need of an upgraded commenting system, ... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Automattic buys blog comment plugin Intense Debate | We’re live at the TechStars demo day in Mountain View, Calif., where companies from the incubator are showing off what they’re up to. Just announced: Intense Debate, a blog commenting plugin system that grew out of Tech Stars, has been boug... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Disqus 2.0: New Plugin, New Interface, And Local Comment Backup | Disqus, the enhanced blog commenting system, has launched a 2.0 version of its software that includes a host of new features, including a new plugin for WordPress, an improved developer API, and an overhauled UI for its main site.
One of th... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | JS-Kit buys Haloscan, bashes Disqus | JS-Kit, best known for its easy-to-add commenting widget, has acquired Haloscan, another comment service, for an undisclosed mix of cash and stock. The acquisition adds 500,000 blogs to JS-Kit’s reach and makes it larger than the rest of th... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | JS-Kit Acquires Commenting System Provider HaloScan | JS-Kit, a provider of Javascript comments, ratings, and poll widgets for blogs, has announced their acquisition of HaloScan, one of the largest hosted comments service providers. This announcement is also coordinated with the launch of seve... |
| Jun 16, 2008 | TheFunded Goes From Criticizing VCs to Helping Members Court Them | If startup CEOs want to anonymously rate, review, and criticize venture capitalists, they can still do that on TheFunded. But the site added a feature today called TheFunded Connect that lets members help each other with what they really wa... |
| May 29, 2008 | JS-Kit Scores Deal With WorldNow, Adds 19 Million Potential Users | WorldNow, a leading CMS provider for local television news sites that total over 19 million visitors monthly, has partnered with JS-Kit to provide them with a number of community based widgets that will be embedded across their sites. JS-Ki... |
| May 28, 2008 | SezWho Seeks Context With An Acquisition | Call it a mini-merger. SezWho, which tracks the reputations of commenters across the blogs and other discussion platforms that have installed its plugin, has acquired a startup called Tejit that specializes in contextual analysis.
SezWho tr... |
| May 1, 2008 | A Widget That Does Background Checks On Plumbers, Painters, Products, And More. | Khris Loux, the CEO of startup JS-Kit, thinks he’s finally come up with the killer widget. JS-Kit has all sorts of widgets used by blogs and other sites for ratings, reviews, polls, and comments. But the latest one he just launched is not j... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | SezWho 2.0: Now Available For More Platforms | Version 2.0 of SezWho, a blogging plugin that tracks commenter reputations, has been launched with wider support for blogging platforms and forums. SezWho can now be used on Blogger, Drupal, WordPress 2.5, and phpBB.
SezWho is also releasin... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | JS-Kit Score: Turn Your Site into a Localized Digg | Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data across the entire web site into an info box that can high... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | NextWeb – Open widgets stand against locked-down systems? | NextWeb live blog: Khris Loux, CEO and co-founder of Web widget provider JS-Kit had a talk entitled “Web 3.0 or Web 3D?, The Decentralization, Disaggregation and Democratization of the Web”. JS-Kit is growing a suite of widgets that will he... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | HaloScan Partners with JS-Kit to Distribute Ratings Widget | HaloScan, a company that provides easily deployable commenting systems for over 489,300 sites, has partnered with JavaScript module provider JS-Kit to provide its user base with “one-click” deployment of JS-Kit’s ratings widget.
HaloScan us... |
| Oct 30, 2007 | Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog's Comments | Blogs, at their best, are like finely tuned forums. Authors serve as moderators, starting discussion threads with posts. Some get particularly heated. But after two months of tuning in beta, Y Combinator’s Disqus is launching to make the fo... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | JS-Kit offers simple comments, ratings and other widgets | JS-Kit, which lets people with basic HTML skills add interactive features to their websites, has raised $1.2 million from The Entrepreneurs Fund III.
It is the latest investment in a widget company, and comes at a time when the major widget... |
| Aug 8, 2007 | From Garage to Cubicle: JS-Kit Closes $1.2 Million Seed Round | Web widget provider JS-Kit has been doing a lot of growing up since starting as a simple commenting widget, founder Lev Walkin’s pet project in his off hours. Since then, that single widget has grown into a company with the addition of CEO ... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | JS-Kit: Web 2.0 For Lazy People | We first covered JS-Kit last November when we talked about their quick embed code that lets you add comments to any site where JavaScript is accepted. Since then, JS-Kit has been creating more widgets making adding user interaction to any s... |
| Nov 30, 2006 | YouTube’s spoils, Yahoo answers, Danger, fuddy US companies & more | The latest roundup of the action happening in Silicon Valley:
First evidence of YouTube wealth — What do you do with your money, when you get it? One way is to spend $20 million to buy Andre Agassi’s Tiburon estate. That’s what Stuart Peter... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Quick Embed Code to Add Comments To Any Site | It may not be a multi-million dollar venture-backed startup, but Lev Walkin has an elegant solution to a common feature of the social web, commenting. JS-Kit is an entirely free little javascript embed that allows you to add threaded commen... |