This is a guest post by Nicolas Holzapfel of stealth mode startup Yoomoot . Throughout the summer we’re running guest posts we like – exclusive to TechCrunch Europe – written by people on the tech scene in Europe. If you’d like to contribute get in touch . Widget developer JS-Kit recently proclaimed the “death of comments” . How so? By way of its innovative comment management system Echo, that’s how. This …

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