Ian Clarke’s Thoof: still for sale?
p2pnet news view | Products:- With the demise of Social.fm in the background, Thoof Goes Poof!, sums up GigaOm.
“Freenet founder Ian Clarke (right), now domiciled in Austin, Texas, far from his usual home in Scotland, has launched a new commercial venture,” p2pnet posted a little more than a year ago, going on
Called Thoof, it offered, “interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links from around the web”
It worked along the lines of music tasting programmes which zero in on users’ likes and dislikes.
In January, “Personalized social news site Thoof is on the block, we’ve learned,” said an earlier GigaOm post, continuing:
“The Austin, Texas-based startup was one of many angling to deliver news better than Digg, but instead ended up as a lightly trafficked also-ran, confirming that in the wild world of Web 2.0, the first mover advantage can be hard to beat. Ian Clarke, the site’s CEO and one of the founders of video site Revver, declined to comment on Thoof’s situation.”
Given the company was up for sale for about six months, “I would say it’s just the latest example of the fact that Web 2.0 remains a buyers’ market —- not a good sign for tens of dozens of companies that have cropped up across the web,” says the story.
“The buyers remain pretty disinterested —- even Yahoo is still busy dealing with its own mess. Microsoft is too distracted to do anything, and while Google and AOL are buying stuff, both of them are being highly selective.”
It adds that Thoof now redirects to CondeNast’s Reddit.
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GigaOm -Thoof Goes Poof!, August 3, 2008
p2pnet – Clarke`s latest: Thoof, July 3, 2008
background – Social.fm bites the dust, August 5, 2008
GigaOm -Psst, Want to Buy a Thoof?, January 17, 2008
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