Spotplex falls into the Deadpool

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Spotplex falls into the Deadpool

by Avatar	Stumble this!	May 10th 2008

As now made “official” by techcrunch, Spotplex is now water under the bridge. sad because i liked the widget. i think it served a useful purpose because the way it attempted to be the “automated Digg for blogs” and yes it failed not because it was a bad product. it was good at one point, then it was ok and suddenly it became just so-so. that signs of decay means death in the tech industry.

And it had some serious growing problems. it was like the start up had no CEO behind it and it were a ship without destination. in almost a year and half it only had 3 significant updates that were not near enough. updates you usually been covered by other startups in half the time that minimum.

I also noted it failing a lot from a month ago until it just shut down some days ago. i thought they were updating it because that is what happened the last time they updated the widget. sad surprise to know they just were calling it quit.

That was the problem. Spotplex didn’t t knew what they wanted to do, and never truly improved in what they were supposed to be doing.

Still a sad thing to see them go. i would love if a company like AOL would buy its remains to integrate them into Sphere. that would be a sweet combo to have. in the meantime i guess i will replace them with AideRSS and that is a good option if you were using SpotPlex and what to replace it with something “similar” to it.

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3 Comments »

I would like to see some one buy Spotplex and add an advertising element to it.
Something that advertises related content to what is already listed in the widget and provides revenue share for the publisher.

Comment by deralaand — 05-11-08 @ 5:24 pm

Yeah, that is why i added the mention of Sphere. Spotplex would be a good fit to extend sphere.

The Advertising could be done by placing a “sponsored relevant popular post in the list” or a rotating ad button option for the widget. i do like that idea.

Oh and we are gonna use AideRSS now i guess. you dig it?

Comment by Avatar — 05-12-08 @ 3:00 am