Came across this <https://killedbygoogle.com/> little hall of -- shame? sadness? quiet desperation? schadenfreude? -- listing projects that Google created and later abandoned, or is in the process of abandoning. Found it in a reader comment to this report <https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/23/google_sunsets_chrome_web_store/> on the death of Chrome Web Store payments. By the way: Neighbourly is dead? I keep seeing mentions of neighbourly.co.nz in the local free papers -- is that different?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020, at 9:56 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Came across this <https://killedbygoogle.com/> little hall of -- shame? sadness? quiet desperation? schadenfreude? -- listing projects that Google created and later abandoned, or is in the process of abandoning.
This is true of most large tech companies. Mozilla is also famous for launching projects and then abandoning them when they are no longer commercially viable. Things like Mozilla Send and Firefox OS (mobile OS) are two that come to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products#Abandoned
By the way: Neighbourly is dead? I keep seeing mentions of neighbourly.co.nz in the local free papers -- is that different?
Google Neighbourly is totally different to the NZ site owned by Stuff Ltd (formerly Fairfax). -- Simon
-----Original Message----- By the way: Neighbourly is dead? I keep seeing mentions of neighbourly.co.nz in the local free papers -- is that different?
Neighbourly.co.nz is different - neighbourly.co.nz is an attempt by the Stuff group to setup some form of "localised" social media platform.
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