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Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

Jay Peek — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:33:46 -0000

rotflmao

Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

Gerald Weber — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:15:40 -0000

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/

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Liz Andrade — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:38:11 -0000

Id add to the list, iwantsandy.com. This service was awesome, im really going to miss sandy!

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YS — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:14:11 -0000

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.

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Seba — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:46:49 -0000

What about Cuil? Does anything still using this search?

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Robert Shilda — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:28:59 -0000

What about Y! Live?

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evo1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:42:23 -0000

...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.

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Craig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:47:13 -0000

I really miss Stage 6.....

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Windows Guy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:43:39 -0000

Didn't know few services..Thax..

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ciaoenrico — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:34:53 -0000

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.

Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

Duncan Riley — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:00:22 -0000

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.

Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

Chris McCorkle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:52:49 -0000

With all due respect (all that I can find or fake):
Straightalk.biz has a traffic rank of: 1,747,207

Best of luck.

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mike — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:20:43 -0000

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.

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temp- — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:17:09 -0000

stage6 was the most painful to me

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Michael — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:45:09 -0000

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.

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Liz — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:22:52 -0000

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.

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dumnfounder — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:14 -0000

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.

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twitterfail — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:49:53 -0000

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.

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STRAIGHTALK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:07:40 -0000

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

Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

Chris McCorkle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:02:28 -0000

Don't forget Google's offshoot wiki/social search engine: www.SearchMash.com

"SearchMash ... has gone the way of the dinosaur"

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Christian — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:53:16 -0000

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?

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Fabio De Bernardi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:34:33 -0000

I'd add MatchMine to the list. Not to be cruel but because I think they were working on very cool stuff.

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BCK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:25:05 -0000

and yet many far less useful ones continue to bang around clogging up the tubes

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web 2.0 casual observer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:24:36 -0000

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!

Re: 7 Promising Sites That Died in 2008

SQLDenis — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:24:02 -0000

Too bad for Pownce, I did actually like Pownce, I think FriendFeed killed it