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 itself absorbed blog semantic search firm Tejit last May. And just last fall, Wordpress parent company Automattic bought comment provider IntenseDebate. No financial terms were disclosed for any of these deals.
JS-Kit says it will keep the SezWho service live for… Continue Reading
Facebook launches comments widget for web publishers
Facebookâs Connect service already lets users comment on news articles and other web-wide content using their Facebook identities. Now the company is taking another step, by letting web publishers install the actual Facebook comments interface within their own sites. For web publishers who just want their comments tightly integrated with Facebook, this could help drive up interaction on their sites. Connect isn’t just a distributed identity service, it shows your friends on Facebook where you’re… Continue Reading
More open government: Obama transition site Change.gov gets user comments
Change.gov, president-elect Barack Obama’s web site covering his administration’s transition to the White House, now lets users share their feedback about the U.S. health care system. Since this new page of the site launched yesterday, asking the provocative question “What worries you most about the health care system in our country?” it has garnered well over 2,000 comments.
This is a great early step in making government more open — a long-standing promise of Obama’s, and… Continue Reading
At TechStars, 12 teams show that Boulder, CO, can produce fantastic tech
“Boulder is good for engineers — if you’re into innovation in rock climbing technology,” a friend once quipped about the outdoor-loving Colorado college town. But today, 12 startups from TechStars, a Boulder-based incubator, demoed their products in Mountain View, Calif. and did a good job of building on the city’s reputation as a budding center for high-tech. Almost down to a team, each of companies that presented this morning felt strong.
The TechStars demo reviews:
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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 the market, which includes Disqus, SezWho, and Intense Debate, combined.
The company made the acquisition in January and will now begin marketing the rest of its widgets, which include a ratings widget similar to the one below… Continue Reading