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Revision as of 01:07, 28 January 2009
Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including:
- Email and SMS services - see [1]
- Lycos Europe member pages (Tripod) - http://members.lycos.co.uk/* - Attempts to register now return the following dismal message: [2]
- Fotomania - Photo community (in some locales)
- Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [3]) specifically:
- Jubii email
- Jubii TV - videos
- VDownload servers - file storage
".co.uk" used above for convenience, but the same goes for hosted content across seven or eight countries: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), Denmark (.dk), Switzerland (.ch) (?) or Austria (.at).
Though perhaps they are keeping:
- Lycos iQ (Question/Answer community)
- Love @ Lycos (Dating)
This is AOL Hometown all over again, but now we have a few weeks to work with.
Tripod pages should be first priority: small files, high uniqueness. Then Jubii hosted files, if we can find them. Then Fotomania and Jubii TV.
Not much we can do for the emails. But a bit.
Backup Tools
- Email: Lycos are providing a software tool that communicates with their mail servers and downloads your stuff. Requires Outlook. [4]
- Jubii TV - Cunning use of wget will probably work.
- Hosted sites - wget, if you can figure out where to point it.
Vital Signs
On death row. Deadline: February 14 2009.
Who's Working On It?
Teaspoon - is spidering the directories and search engines for Tripod urls.