Echo (blog comment hosting service)

Echo, formerly known as Haloscan, is a blog comment hosting service.

History

Haloscan, one of the first third-party blog comment hosting services, was established in 2002.[1]

Another comment hosting, 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.[2] 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.

Merger

Haloscan was acquired by JS-Kit in 2008 and was renamed Echo in 2009[3] as registrations for the JS-Kit commenting system was discontinued. 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feature, among other feedback features), with support for all remaining JS-Kit, Haloscan and Echo comment modules being withdrawn.[4]

Other acquisitions

References

  1. "Haloscan archive from July 2002". Archived from the original on August 2, 2002.
  2. VINCE VENEZIANI (November 29, 2006). "Quick Embed Code to Add Comments To Any Site". Techcrunch.
  3. "Haloscan is getting upgraded to Echo". Echo. December 9, 2009.
  4. "Notice of discontinuation of service". Echo.

External links

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