Why a startup, Sonar, failed. Startup Madness / google+ Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month [Update] Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo!
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In January, we're hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites. MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! MySpace, R.I.P – GigaOM. It’s not a good idea to speak ill of the dead.
It is OK, however, to speak the truth, however harsh it might seem, about the living dead. Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million MySpace purchase has outlived not only its utility, but has also finally hit its expiration date.