Js-kit News & Articles

Today the widget-Wonkas over at JS-Kit debuted Navigator, a web service that “distills” community opinion and user behavior (TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!) into a set of moderate-able and actionable site content views.

This yields two separate benefits:

• Site managers can alter the service’s look and feel based on two different forms of data (what users say they want, and what they actually do)
• Regular visitors get quick access to content attuned to their personal preferences (whether they know it or not)

The rumors are true: comment box-modding is now an industry.

JS-Kit has just released a new Comments widget that boasts lots of important features but is disturbingly easy to implement and use. (Seriously. Try it here.)

At no cost and with no advertising, users of JS-Kit Comments can:

• Monitor threads
• Create RSS data feeds to track comments. This also empowers search engines to index them
• Sort comments based on name, date and “karma” (based on user votes)

The feature doesn’t cause laggage and comments materialize instantly, even without the whole-page twitch that typically happens when a site is over-AJAXed.

After trying out Comments we started checking out JS-Kit’s other widgets. They include, Ratings, Top Rated and Polls — all sound CRM tools with a professional veneer. Just pop the HTML into your site.

It’s amateur-easy.