Comments on: Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo Shutters Kickstart

By: Yahoo Shuttering Travel Bargains Site FareChase Today « shankarsoma; Change the View

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:48:59 +0000

[...] The company had previously sold off shopping engine Kelkoo and shuttered online storage service Briefcase, photo sharing service Yahoo Photos, social network Mash, live video streaming service Yahoo Live, Ads in RSS, web-based video editing service JumpCut and student community website / job board KickStart. [...]

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By: bruna

bruna — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:22:31 +0000

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Corrected the post, I mixed up 4/11 and 11/4 in the URL. Thank you for pointing it out so politely.

By: .:. Blog Hugo Martins .:. Tecnologia, Informática, Papéis de Parede, Wallpaper, Lost, Heroes, Photoshop, Humor » Yahoo fecha Kickstart, rede social profissional

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:59:39 +0000

[...] decisão de fechar a rede aberta em abril deste ano não foi comunicada oficialmente, mas o site TechCrunch suspeita que seja mais uma forma de cortar gastos, seguindo o fechamento de outros serviços como o [...]

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Readers Edition » Yahoo räumt auf - Portale werden geschlossen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:05:36 +0000

[...] Jumpcut, wird jetzt auch die College- und Studentencommunity Yahoo Kickstart geschlossen, wie TechCrunch berichtet. Dabei wurde die Community erst im letzten Jahr eingeführt. Schon zu dieser Zeit [...]

By: Robin Wauters

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:52:42 +0000

Corrected the post, I mixed up 4/11 and 11/4 in the URL. Thank you for pointing it out so politely.

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:29:05 +0000

sloppy reporting like this is why blogs aren’t taken that seriously. kickstart didn’t launch in april- it launched in november over a year ago (even the link shows that- who mixes up november 4th for april?). also, why did kickstart not release any new features? look at the team that built it and what else they were building. think the live release didn’t affect other products built by the same team and take all the resources? connect the dots and stop assuming the teams that build the stuff are clueless- there’s decisions happening behind the scenes.

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Fast casting the man without restraint! | Digg Photo Blog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:34:14 +0000

[...] Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo Kickstart Shutters TechCrunch ,December 18, 2008 Live and Jumpcut, as well as selling off Kelkoo, it’s now time for Yahoo Kickstart to pay a visit to the deadpool. Kickstart was launched by the company’s … [...]

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:17:23 +0000

“Seems like Y! is on a spree to shut all its bad/null performance services.But they don’t have an option either !”

Sadly, when big companies go on cutting sprees, good ideas get shut down. Some of Yahoo’s products just need to be owned, and run, by 3 kids who are working out of their cramped apartments. The sites would thrive, given that kind of ownership. And when the sites started making $20,000 a month, the kids would jump up and down in excitement and think of themselves as the luckiest people in the world. But, sadly, $20,000 a month is a joke to a company like Yahoo, and Yahoo has much higher costs than what 3 kids working out of an apartment have.

We’ve seen this before with IBM, Apple, Intel, AT&T (Bell Labs, Lucent, etc), Wang, Netscape and many others. When big companies need to cut, they do generally do so with chainsaws, rather than scalpels.

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:41:45 +0000

[...] alumni at specific colleges and universities and also help them connect on a professional level. (http://www.tech...kstart-shutters [...]

By: Dan Birdwhistell

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:21:47 +0000

Kickstart actually had a great start as a hybrid version of Doostang and LinkedIn. The profiles were clean and doubled as a public resume; however, after the initial launch (which was primarily everyone at Yahoo), they rolled out no additional features or updates.

Leaves more room for other startups in the space.

By: dow

dow — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:29:42 +0000

I have not even heard of this service . I use LinkedIn pretty regularly and believe it can really deliver business value . Just because it is / was a Yahoo product offering or Google goody does not mean it will be any better .

Dow
http://www.outs...rcewebdesign.in

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:53:23 +0000

A lot of startups that are not profitable are facing significant challenges raising additional money or staying afloat. Thanks for the good article.

Kevin
http://www.kidsdesk.net

By: Tech Nerd

Tech Nerd — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:38:18 +0000

I think Yahoo should have done some customization of Kickstart in a first place. As LinkedIn became dominant in the market to connect professionals, the objective of Kickstart got faded. I have tried connecting couple of Tech Recruiters when I was hunting for a job but never heard back anything from them. Needless to say, yahoo creates innovative ideas and develops them but never maintains them.

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Maulik
http://mauliksh...h.wordpress.com

By: ruff

ruff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:12:05 +0000

http://www.jump...7BE000423CF037A

By: Truff

Truff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:11:02 +0000

This is a great example of why people shouldn’t trust their media to Internet start-ups. That cut video of your baby that you uploaded and then deleted b accident? Sorry! When Jumpcut goes, so goes your precious memories! Same goes for the morons that think DRM on music is acceptable…

By: click

click — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:10:57 +0000

it is a long time .

By: Yahoo shuts down Kickstart as well | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:02:38 +0000

[...] employees but its acquired services as well. Earlier it just pulled down shutters on Jumpcut and now it pushed Kickstart into the pit too. The site had been launched to help connect college and [...]

By: Estee

Estee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:45:23 +0000

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By: runner

runner — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:39:14 +0000

this service never should have been launched in the first place

By: BixIsNext

BixIsNext — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:21:27 +0000

Um, i think that’s a given. Maybe I’m missing the insight from your post?

By: Jugar

Jugar — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:19:23 +0000

Yeah… http://www.jugargame.com/

By: Razin Mustafiz

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:09:08 +0000

I’m surprised that there has been very little mention of the fact that Yahoo! had hired Bain and Company, who in turn had recommended that Y! get rid of 15% (I think) of its workforce, and that the recent spate of firings at the Big Purple may be the direct by-product of that. Wow, that was long.