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FTP at Blogger.com on 26 March 2010
It Died Feb 02 10Blogger, a Google division, will turn the ability to update a site via FTP/SFTP on 26 March 2010: Blogger has long allowed its users to publish sites using its tools to other servers under the control of users using the.
Microsoft Pulls ThumbTack Bookmarking Service
It Died Nov 03 09Microsoft has closed down its ThumbTack service for bookmarking: The service at Live Labs let you save all manner of things, including links and photos, in a single place for later retrieval or viewing.
Geocities Last Day
It Died Oct 26 09As Geocities sinks slowly into the sea, let us praise great BLINK tags: Buh-bye, Geocities. I'd say we hardly knew ya, but we knew ya all too well.
Happy News: Tr.im Lives!
It Died Aug 19 09O happy day, here at itdied.com: The tr.im URL shortener service has opted to stay alive instead of shutdown.
Tr.im Trimmed
It Died Aug 10 09The tr.im URL shortening service has shortened its lifespan: The service will no guarantee redirects for URLs starting 31-Dec-2009, and has disclaimed the reliability of its statistics from this point on.
Soapbox Dries Out on 31-August-2009
It Died Jul 22 09Microsoft is shutting down its Soapbox video service that no one knew existed: Soapbox allowed users to upload videos, which appeared on MSN Video, a service that will remain, but which doesn't (seemingly) allow amateur/personal contributions.
CompuServe Classic Powered Down 29-June-2009
It Died Jul 04 09CompuServe Classic finally succumbs: CompuServe was one of the very earliest commercial dial-up bulletin board systems, well known for its "CB radio" chat program, which worked much like IRC.
Flowgram Halts on 30-June-2009
It Died Jun 12 09The site devoted to helping create guided presentations is shutting down on 30-June-2009: Flowgram said in email to users that it couldn't figure out a financial model to continue.
Yahoo 360 Gets 86'd 13-July-2009
It Died Jun 01 09The Yahoo 360° social networking blog thing, which has been under a death watch for two years, finally dives 13-July-2009: The service is notable for combining blogging and a host of other things, but Yahoo couldn't either figure out how.
Jumpcut Skips Away 15-June-2009
It Died May 22 09Video content sharing site Jumpcut is closing its virtual doors 15-June-2009: I wasn't aware of this site, but it appears to be a place where you can upload video, share it with others, edit together your own and other segments,.
Trusera Suffers Heartbreak of Fund Shortage 27-May-2009
It Died May 20 09Seattle site Trusera, a forum for exchanging health and wellness info, shuts down 27-May-2009: If you created a blog or used the site in some other fashion, the company already offers an RSS export feature that you can use to.
Geocities Stops Its Orbit Later This Year
It Died Apr 24 09Yahoo says its shutting down the hoary Geocities "later this year": Geocities was an early Web hosting site that allowed its members to create truly horrible, horrible designs that by today's standards would cause your eyeballs to melt out of.
Shutterfly Reaffirms Free, Eternal, High-Res Storage
It Died Apr 12 09After Kodak's announcement that without a purchase, pictures go boom, Shutterfly restates its intent: Shutterfly has no minimum yearly purchase (or ever) to keep accounts active, and archives photos at full resolution.
HomePage Evicted, Groups Disbanded 7-July-2009
It Died Apr 09 09Apple slams door on HomePage on 7-July-2009: The Web-based page-building tools in MobileMe (the service formerly known as .
It Lives! FileFront Avoids End of Line
It Died Apr 04 09Rare good news from your faithful daethwatcher: FileFront was acquired by its original developers from Ziff Davis, averting the shutdown and deletion of terabytes of user gaming-related data last week.
Encarta Departas 31-October-2009
It Died Mar 30 09Microsoft will shut down Encarta information Web sites: I don't believe any user data will be lost, just the encyclopedia content that Microsoft once thought would be one key line of business outside of applications and operating systems.
FileFront Slams Shut Today, Deleting 48 TB of User Gaming Data
It Died Mar 30 09Ziff-Davis is abruptly shuttering FileFront, a site for gaming patches, user-generated levels, and related content: With five days' warning, ZD is already dismantling this massive, high-traffic collection of gaming content.
Immediately Unfurled
It Died Mar 17 09The Furl social-bookmarking site has been sucked into Diigo.com: The Furl service is no longer avaialble, but bookmarks can be transferred directly into Diigo.
Swurl Has Swirled Down Drain
It Died Mar 04 09Personal timeline mash-up system Swurl is gone: The developers of a system that could take disparate feeds of your life and put them together into a customized illustrated timeline have shut their doors.
Upline Goes Down 31-March-2009
It Died Feb 27 09Webware reports that HP's Upline backup service is being shuttered: The service, based on technology from a firm acquired by HP, is disappearing entirely on 31-March-2009.
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