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* '''Flickr''' (owned by Yahoo) dumped significant staff, including prominent developers.
* '''Flickr''' (owned by Yahoo) dumped significant staff, including prominent developers.
* '''Livejournal''' is not looking so hot. [http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network]
* [[Livejournal]] is not looking so hot.  


=== Doing Fine, Think I'll Go For a Walk ===
=== Doing Fine, Think I'll Go For a Walk ===


* '''Facebook''' seems stable at the moment. There is no official export utility, and unofficial export tools are limited to [http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/export-facebook-to-excel-with-friendcsv/ exporting your contact list to CSV]. This leaves wall, profile information and the plethora of facebook apps out in the cold. Perhaps a backup app could be written for Facebook from within Facebook using the applications framework.
* '''Facebook''' seems stable at the moment. There is no official export utility, and unofficial export tools are limited to [http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/export-facebook-to-excel-with-friendcsv/ exporting your contact list to CSV]. This leaves wall, profile information and the plethora of facebook apps out in the cold. Perhaps a backup app could be written for Facebook from within Facebook using the applications framework.

Revision as of 23:10, 7 January 2009

The Deathwatch is meant to be a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down, or to serve as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly. New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here.

Another site doing this work is It Died, by Glenn Fleishman. Activist Archivists would do well to join his RSS Feed.

Pining for the Fjords

  • All of the 1UP Network and related properties shut down on January 31, 2009. [1]
  • Ficlets.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009.
  • Co.omments.com announced they are closing on January 11, 2009.

Dead as a Doornail

  • Pownce was closed on December 15, 2008.
  • Lively, a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.
  • AOL Hometown (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008.

When the Big Guys Cough, their Subsites get The Flu

  • Flickr (owned by Yahoo) dumped significant staff, including prominent developers.
  • Livejournal is not looking so hot.

Doing Fine, Think I'll Go For a Walk

  • Facebook seems stable at the moment. There is no official export utility, and unofficial export tools are limited to exporting your contact list to CSV. This leaves wall, profile information and the plethora of facebook apps out in the cold. Perhaps a backup app could be written for Facebook from within Facebook using the applications framework.