Echo (blog comment hosting service)
Echo was a blog comment hosting service.
History
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JS-Kit was started as a side project of Russian-born programmer and Cisco Security Engineer Lev Walkin, who released JS-Kit as a quickly-embeddable comment system for blogs in 2006.[1] The venture grew into a full-on hosting service for comments, with Walkin becoming CTO, Khris Loux becoming CEO and Chris Saad becoming Chief Strategy Officer. As company and its product evolved, JS-Kit was rebranded as Echo in 2009.[2]
Haloscan acquisition
[edit | edit source]Haloscan was one of the first third-party blog comment hosting services, established in 2002.[3] Haloscan was acquired by JS-Kit in 2008. In 2009, Echo had requested users of Haloscan product to upgrade to its core service.[4]
In 2012, it was announced that Echo would discontinue their comment hosting-exclusive services in favor of social media applications (i.e., USA Network's "Character Chatter" website feature, among other feedback features), with support for all remaining JS-Kit, Haloscan and Echo comment modules being withdrawn.
Other acquisitions
[edit | edit source]- SezWho (2009)[5]
References
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