Blog sharing widget company ShareThis buys blog sharing widget company Madkast

September 23, 2008 | Eric Eldon

Updated

We’re still at the TechStars demo day in Mountain View, Calif. One of the incubator’s companies, blog article-sharing widget maker Madkast, has just said it has been purchased by article-sharing widget company ShareThis for an undisclosed sum [Update: Madkast is about to be purchased. It wasn't clear from the presentation, but the deal's slated to close in the next couple of days] .

TechStars is apparently using today to announce acquisitions. Minutes ago, another TechStars company, blog commenting plug-in Intense Debate, announced it has been bought by Automattic.

Madkast lets you share posts via instant messages, email, MMS text messages and social bookmarking sites. The Boulder, Colo.-based company has raised $300,000 from angel investors.

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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He writes and edits stories about lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a now-failed startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers.