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History

Khris Loux & Chris Saad - TNW Conference 2008 - Day 2 (2402734971)

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. 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.

Haloscan acquisition

Haloscan was one of the first third-party blog comment hosting services, established in 2002. Haloscan was acquired by JS-Kit in 2008. In 2009, Echo had requested users of Haloscan product to upgrade to its core service. In 2012, it was announced that Echo would discontinue their comment hosting-exclusive services in favor of

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applications (i.e.,

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'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feature, among other feedback features), with support for all remaining JS-Kit, Haloscan and Echo comment modules being withdrawn.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

* SezWho (2009)

References

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External links

Echo website
Internet forum hosting