The End of an Era: Hot Potato

On August 20, Hot Potato the microblogging service announced that it will be shutting down since it has been bought by Facebook. It has been long rumored that Facebook would be acquiring them and now it has happened. Hot Potato was a micro-blogging service based on events and only events. You could really write anything else unlike Twitter. Facebook usually acquires companies like this because of talent within them. When I used Hot Potato in the short time it was around, it did grow on me but it never really integrated itself into my daily life. There was no app my phone so I could post on the go. It was an interesting site but not really one that was commonly used. It was just another failed startup in my opinion. so I guess we could say that it's good that they were acquired by Facebook. But I'll miss being able to say that I was watching Saturday Night Live at one o'clock in the morning. Goodbye Hot Potato, I barely knew ye.

The End of an Era: VOX by SixApart

September 2nd marked the end of an era for VOX. A SixApart hosted blogging platform. I made my first real blog there and kept it going for three years! It was a great service and had over 250 million unique members worldwide but, I guess it wasn't making enough money for SixApart to justify keeping it running. And even though I believe that selling out and killing off VOX was not a good idea, they are a company and companies have to make money. Since I read about the closing, I have migrated my blog to Posterous, TypePad, WordPress.com, and my primary blog so the legacy of VOX and my first blog will still live on :-D. On September 30th, VOX will close completely taking all the posts, pictures, and videos not exported to other sites down with it so if you are the owner of a VOX blog and you want to keep all of your content move now!

UPDATE: SixApart has moved all content from VOX to TypePad servers so, if you've moved your VOX blog to Posterous or Wordpress.com all of your pictures, videos, and such will show up from TypePad servers.