Cyber-obituaries
Mp3.com
1997-2003
One of the Internet's pioneer music sites, Mp3.com, died last night at midnight, and along with it, more than 1.3 million tracks by more than 250,000 independent artists. Those archives were destroyed by Mp3.com's new owner, Cnet, which had just acquired it from Vivendi Universal, despite last-minute pleas from company founder Michael Robertson and offers from other sites to take over hosting of the archive.
Blogshares.com
2002-2003
Blogshares, the fantasy blog share market, died yesterday when its founder, Seyed Razavi, decided its current technical difficulties were terminal. It was fun while it lasted, and it got bloggers to check out each other's blogs, which means the experiment accomplished what it set out to do.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @6:45 PM
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