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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2008/12/09/promising-sites-that-died-in-2008/

  • Alex · 12 months ago
    Very interesting, Tnx
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    Extensive collection of clean humor, funny pictures, movies and flash Videos
    http://funnyflux.com/
  • SQLDenis · 12 months ago
    Too bad for Pownce, I did actually like Pownce, I think FriendFeed killed it
  • web 2.0 casual observer · 12 months ago
    Yeah.. Eyespot had GREAT technology. I was really impressed and they had developed great tools (ffmpeg changed the world!)

    One of their problems I feel, and this is self-serving - How do you have the premiere online tools to make Mashups - but you don't reach out to the mashup making kings around the web and give them a few bucks to have them use and promote their tool and use it to make compelling mashups to attract users and eyeballs and then promote them via other video sites.


    Oh well! Of course most of the interesting mashups use copyrighted material.

    Mashup King!
  • BCK · 12 months ago
    and yet many far less useful ones continue to bang around clogging up the tubes
  • necenzurat · 12 months ago
    maybe sooon twitter will die too :)
  • Jay Peek · 8 months ago
    rotflmao
  • Fabio · 12 months ago
    I'd add MatchMine to the list. Not to be cruel but because I think they were working on very cool stuff.
  • Christian · 12 months ago
    I am going to miss Mobuzz. They have been producing online video segments since 2004 and died this year after a extended bout with debilitating funds disease. When will we find a cure to DFD?
  • Chris McCorkle · 12 months ago
    Don't forget Google's offshoot wiki/social search engine: www.SearchMash.com

    "SearchMash ... has gone the way of the dinosaur"
  • STRAIGHTALK · 12 months ago
    Hummmmmmm where do I start.. I liked some of the websites listed here as sites that are going under.. But when You look at this You have to say am I going to be a survivor, Is this web industry going to swallow me up as it did the big guys..

    Well, if your Business or Personal website is in the darkside of production and you can use some help please contact Us STRAIGHTALK.. We are a complete development service website.. And not to Mine or Your surprise I have offered my help to some of these sites and look.. I even had offered to Pownce a link exchange and I was responded with My site is PR higher than Your why would I link too You for..

    Well I guess they should of linked because that high PR didn't seem to do not a darn thing for them did it now??

    However, great article and nice work hope to hear more from You in time to come!! remember time will tell!!


    STRAIGHTALK
    Norman Flecha
  • Chris McCorkle · 12 months ago
    With all due respect (all that I can find or fake):
    Straightalk.biz has a traffic rank of: 1,747,207

    Best of luck.
  • twitterfail · 12 months ago
    I also agree about waiting for the day Twitter shuts down. What a useless pile of crap now that the advertising media is spamming the hell out of it.
  • dumnfounder · 12 months ago
    methinks global pandora shutting down is better than pandora shutting down. Yes, it sucks the rest of the world can't have access. But they need to play by the rules if they want to stay operational.
  • Liz · 12 months ago
    Don't forget Stikk and IWantSandy, which are shutting this month. The founder was hired by Twitter, so it's not all sad news. At least for him.
  • Michael · 12 months ago
    Stage 6 was one of the best startups ever (I am not kidding) I dont know why the hell they shut down i was a huge fan of thier site.
  • temp- · 12 months ago
    stage6 was the most painful to me
  • mike · 12 months ago
    Twitter is aweful.

    "I am eating a sandwich now"

    "I am wondering what I should do after work"

    "Yeah i am drinking a beer"

    I dont give a chit what you are up to or what your every waking thought is.
  • Duncan Riley · 12 months ago
    Agree with Stage 6, the Div X may have been annoying but the quality was great. But you ruined the article by including Pownce. It was never promising. Ever.
  • ciaoenrico · 12 months ago
    That was a great post - mostly because of the sites I hadn't heard of. DocSyncer sounds like it would have been great, as someone who actually likes Google Docs.

    Of course, Pownce was the only one that wasn't news to me. When I heard about it I thought, "well who's next?" But when I found out SixApart just wanted the dev team, it made more sense. It's like when Ted Turner wanted to buy the MGM film library for Turner Broadcasting in the 80s. They wouldn't sell, so he just bought MGM in its entirety, an sold it a few months later... minus the film library.
  • Windows Guy · 12 months ago
    Didn't know few services..Thax..
  • Denis · 12 months ago
    I loved Pownce... however, I have hardly ever used it because not many of my friends were using it...
  • Craig · 12 months ago
    I really miss Stage 6.....
  • evo1 · 12 months ago
    ...also, they just axed Iwantsandy.com. Funny how you get addicted to something good and then they pull the plug.

    Free comes with a price after all.
  • Robert Shilda · 12 months ago
    What about Y! Live?
  • Seba · 12 months ago
    What about Cuil? Does anything still using this search?
  • YS · 12 months ago
    same as well. i love pownce as well. but my friends weren't using it. there should be more time for it to develop further.
  • liz · 11 months ago
    Id add to the list, iwantsandy.com. This service was awesome, im really going to miss sandy!
  • Gerald Weber · 11 months ago
    This is kind of a sad list.

    There is one that is missing. Yet another one of Yahoo's projects that they started but didn't finish.

    Yahoo live went beta in early 2000 and never graduated from beta just shut down Dec 3rd of this year. They were basically the very best live videos chat platform that I have ever seen. Too bad they are gone now. Their domain currently resoloves to a web shut down page.

    http://live.yahoo.com/