JS-Kit acquires SezWho: What it means for Entrecarders
Written on March 25th, 2009 by Graham
Greetings Entrecarders!
Today you will notice a significant change on the Entrecard blog. We have swapped out the SezWho comment service in exchange for JS-Kit comments. We’d like to thank all those Entrecarders who signed up with our partner SezWho in the past. We believe it has been a great benefit to our blogger members to have advanced comment features installed for their sites.
As you may have heard, SezWho has been unable to raise funding to continue their service and they need to shut down the site. Fortunately, our friends at JS-Kit have provided the resources necessary to keep the SezWho service up and running until March 31, 2009. This means that in a short time, the SezWho service will no longer be operational. We are, however, recommending that all of our members currently using SezWho take the opportunity to switch over to JS-Kit.
We strongly encourage you to Upgrade Now to avoid disruptions. Signing up for JS-Kit is quicker and easier than any of the competing comment platforms, and their gear is lighter and loads faster. In fact, JS-Kit is the world’s largest distributed social network, connecting over 600,000 publishers with light weight, cross domain services, including Comments, Ratings, and Polls.
They recently raised 3.6m in a Series B and are used by major brands such as JetBlue, Sun, Experian, Evite and AOL.
Here’s a quick note from Khris Loux, CEO JS-Kit:
“We welcome SezWho publishers to the JS-Kit family and look forward to supporting you and your visitors. Our mission is to empower publishers to quickly and easily create social experiences on their sites. I look forward to hearing from the SezWho community to learn how we can continue to improve our products and services to meet your needs.”
Comments are one of the most important parts of a blog, and as such we take our comments very seriously at Entrecard. It is therefore with great pride that we switch our commenting service to JS-Kit, and encourage you to do the same.
Cheers,
Graham Langdon
CEO – Entrecard.com Inc.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:39 am
What happened to the JS Kit?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
The upgrade instructions are not too helpful. “Disable the sez-who code.” I don’t even remember where it is… “disable?” delete? but I have to find it first. I think maybe it was in the HTML code for the template…. The instruction page for blogger is disabled…. hmmm
March 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
You’re promoting it, but you took it off the EC blog? That’s rich.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Thanks for the update!!! Hope JS-kit will also provide the flawless service unlike Sezwho. I am switching over…
March 27th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
We’re not taking it off permanently, anonymous. We just had a technically difficulty importing our comments (we have thousands and thousands), and until our comments can be properly imported, we don’t want to activate it.
Expect it back soon!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
What is sezwho?
March 29th, 2009 at 4:54 am
yea…I’m having some problems importing my comments too. It looks like I have imported my comments, but all my comments disappear until i disable the js-kit plugin.
Have you guys had any luck yet?
March 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
What are the features and benefits to have JS-Kit over just normal comments?
March 29th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Now you can see why I settled on IntenseDebate for my commentary moderation. Even JS-Kit being so vague in the Lijit areana is a bit weird.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:08 am
I just switched to JS-Kit. It’s not so bad, it has a LOT more functions than sezwho ever had, though all this functions are making it a bit complicated for overall users who just dropped by to post a comment. I just hope all the login options and that interface rich with various functions won’t scare them away.
Though I miss the Gravatar support. JS-Kit doesn’t have them.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Didn’t like for SezWho and JS-Kit is no better. I don’t like anything that robs link love from my commenters…