“Past Hypes: What happened to …” is a series of look backs at old products and services that got much press and hype but disappeared or failed. This is the first part.
Bubbletop
http://www.bubbletop.com
Bubbletop.com started as a new way of personalized homepages. It allowed to share your modules with your friends and contacts.
Simplify your digital life with Bubbletop. Focus on a personalized view of the Web, and keep on top of what interests you.
Bubbletop was born out of the growing difficulty we all experience in trying to keep up-to-date with all the interesting stuff happening on the web, and eating up your time.
Why it is dead:
- The last blog post is from January 25th and the winners of the competition haven’t yet to be announced.
- Nobody in the blogosphere talks about Bubbletop.
- Nobody in the Twitterverse talks about Bubbletop.
- The Bubbletop Twitter account is … dead for 5 months.
- TechCrunch wrote a year ago about it – and never again.
I am sure you can find more reasons to declare Bubbletop for good. Or you can explain why nothing is happening. Or is Orange re-launching it soon?
Share your thoughts, ideas and insights.