Microsoft 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. Much like, well, many things Microsoft thought would be key lines of business outside of...
March 2009 Archives
Ziff-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. It's a very strange move, guaranteed to piss off gamers for all eternity. An effort has been underway since the announcement to download and migrate content. One user reports 48 terabytes (TB) of data were stored at FileFront. [link via Bruno. Thanks!]
The 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.com.
Personal 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. They note on the Web site, "We built Swurl as two guys doing something we love in our spare time. Unfortunately, due to the pressures of our day jobs and other distractions, we can no longer support or maintain the service at the level that we think our users deserve." Swurl was an aggregator, so ostensibly no user data was lost.
