Another addition to the graveyard – Google Shared Stuff.
Google Shared Stuff, the social bookmarking service that was never even launched officially, will no longer be available after March.
It was really only used to share videos at Google Video and articles from Knol, but the was buggy and underdeveloped.  Google Shared Stuff combined different ways to [...]

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What’s all the Ruckus about, you ask?  Ruckus is gone.
Ruckus was a popular online music service geared towards the college audience. It allowed students to stream an unlimited amount of music.
The service offered legal alternatives to the pirating tactics being practiced on many campuses.  Initially, Ruckus began as a subscription-based service.  Later, [...]

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It looks like Facebook Polls, the business tool that enabled anyone to create a paid poll targetting a pre-defined group of users, is gone.
The link for the service is now goes straight back to Facebook’s home page. There is no longer any mention of Facebook Polls anywhere on the their advertising pages.
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Google has announced that they are pulling the plug on Lively, its browser-baseed virtual world application that could be embedded into other sites.
We were beginning to wonder why this program didn’t even work in Chrome, and this would seem to explain it.
The official notification says that the plug will be pulled on December 31 of [...]

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I have to admit, this was one of my favorite sources of cheap traffic.  The user-interface was really easy to use.  Upon logging in tonight, however, I was greeted with this…

…and so it would appear that GoClick is no more.
Time to utilize some other sources of cheap traffic such as ExoClick, AdBrite, Findology, MIVA, etc.
While [...]

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