1) I am a founder and CEO of Chesspark, which created this, and although I'm fairly new around here, I'd like to think I am part of the community.

2) The tech we have is interesting. The client is pretty, very responsive, and completely in javascript. It's also open source, and all the protocols are XMPP. We open sourced a lot of our backend components as well (punjab, palaver) and we contribute quite a bit to many projects people here care about.

Sometimes you have to look behind the story, and not just what techcrunch thinks of it :)