Comments on: Wallop Takes A Leap Into the Deadpool

By: Wallop Recovers To Buy EtchStar | lalawag

Wallop Recovers To Buy EtchStar | lalawag — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:29:06 +0000

[...] in 2006, but it has since failed to take off. The company’s flagship social network site closed in September and it chose to continue to develop and support two Facebook [...]

By: Zoyidian Thought » Blog Archive » Should Dead Startups be classified as Deadpool or Triedpool?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:24:08 +0000

[...] a Social Networking Service that realized that there is no money in that stuff. It was added to the TechCrunch Layoff Tracker from where it has emerged to start something [...]

By: Tales From The Deadpool: Wallop Comes Back As Coveroo

Tales From The Deadpool: Wallop Comes Back As Coveroo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:17:02 +0000

[...] there is life after the deadpool. Take Wallop, a social-network-turned-social-app company that dove under in September, only to now arise again as Coveroo. Wallop still had some money from the $13 million it raised in [...]

By: Wallop goes from Flash based Widgetized Social Network to Widget-App Start Up | Widgets Lab

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:19:20 +0000

[...] TC Technorati Tags: wallop,wallop widgets,wallop widget-apps,wallop cool cards,wallop party on,flash [...]

By: GIS Utilities

GIS Utilities — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:53:36 +0000

Yes i agree with you.The interfacing has some problems when i tried.

By: Wallop - Walflop| Zoli’s Blog

Wallop - Walflop| Zoli’s Blog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:26:56 +0000

[...] years ago I called it Walflop. Finally, Microsoft spin-off Wallop entered the deadpool, reports [...]

By: Sean Malone

Sean Malone — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:05:15 +0000

aren’t you going to add Lehman Brother to the deadpool?

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:01:26 +0000

Self-Expression?

You enjoy your own self-expression, who else care?

By: HipMojo.com » Wallop Bites the Dust. What’s Wallop? Good Question.

HipMojo.com » Wallop Bites the Dust. What’s Wallop? Good Question. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:02:50 +0000

[...] I contacted MSFT IP Ventures back in 2005 and inquired about Wallop. They ended up hiring some genius to run it. Today it’s shutting down: Wallop Takes a Leap into the Deadpool. [...]

By: AW

AW — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:17:40 +0000

Are we really surprised? Another of the Big Guys start up a huge “X-killer” project, fails to support it after the public launch, then quietly closes it down a few years later.

The people involved in these projects are like the Special Sauce for Failure Soup.

Even worse, this casts a bad light on the company, as end users will be less likely to use “beta” products that Microsoft / Yahoo makes, because they’ll still be reeling from the bad taste in their mouth from the *last* canned project. Anyone here remember Microsoft Max? Sheesh.

Someone at these companies needs to put their foot down and say, “Once you go live with a project of this magnitude, *YOU* are obligated to support it — indefinitely. So don’t fuck it up.”

How many awful ‘beta’ projects would we see steaming out of Silicon Valley then?

By: Basic Thinking Blog | Wallop schließt

Basic Thinking Blog | Wallop schließt — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:01:29 +0000

[...] was ich da lesen muss. Wallop war zuerst ein Testprojekt von Microsoft Richtung Social Networking mit einer [...]

By: Simplycool

Simplycool — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:40:09 +0000

It has been hard to make a living out of mobile social networking.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Wallopがサイト終了、Deadpoolへ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Wallopがサイト終了、Deadpoolへ — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:34:33 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:34:25 +0000

Wallop always looked nice but the interface was horrible. They also never seemed to add anything to the site, the last update seems to be over a year ago. If they had actually developed some things to do on the site like games it might have been more of a success.

By: Microsoft Startup, Wallop, Bites The Dust | tinyCrunch

Microsoft Startup, Wallop, Bites The Dust | tinyCrunch — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:26:14 +0000

[...] tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post Share and [...]

By: All about Microsoft mobile edition

All about Microsoft mobile edition — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:08:31 +0000

[...] Wallop social-networking technology. As reported by TechCrunch on September 15, Wallop seems to be closing its social-networking site. The Wallop site is currently featuring the following note: “Dear Wallop.com Member, “Thank you for [...]

By: mooga

mooga — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:04:16 +0000

Hey Karl
Incubatin’ for the big guys SUCKS!!! Do your own thing next time.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:47:42 +0000

Wasn’t this is the “flash based social network” … ?

I always found the UI to be really messy because you could move any element anywhere, like a web-top, but it very quickly got filled up with crapola.

Meh. Another one bites the dust.

By: hmm

hmm — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:46:22 +0000

What’s in name, but WTF is Wallop ? … they could have survived if they would have come up with better name

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23:30 +0000

Dam Karl Jacob!

He was trying to make this happen for the last few years..

Almost made it Karl

By: Andrew of Mixergy

Andrew of Mixergy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:13:01 +0000

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By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:58:31 +0000

i had a beta try out of wallop. the problem with it was that although nice looking, it was just too complicated and confusing for the average user. simplicity is key and they tried to incorporate too many things and make it too fancy at one time. the result is an overwhelming GUI which cut out the main objective of why it existed in the first place i.e. social networking with self expression.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:51:49 +0000

Maybe…a chance if they would have had a distribution model? In 2006, facebook, myspace, bebo, hi5, linkedin – they all had tons of members & plenty of virality…wallop had nothing.

Besides which, Microsoft’s Q&A site, windows live qna, is anemic at best, and a q&a site = a social network…dilluting your chances by spreading out niche features across multiple sites & brands hurts your ability to create network effects. Oops.

By: DeadLocator.com

DeadLocator.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:30:01 +0000

maybe a chance if it had a better domain name and logo?

MyLocator.com

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:26:09 +0000

This is the first step of the SuperGUI concept dying. Simplicity just works.