Dear Hive Mind. Looking for good examples from ~2015 of scholarly or scholarly adjacent services/infrastructures failing.
I've got examples of corporate capture, but struggling to find examples of actual closure because they've left very little trace
Friendfeed is one example, alongside a million other social media offerings, but I'm looking for something that the general scholarly reader would recognise and remember ideally
@cameronneylon does CiteULike count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteULike looks like it closed in 2019, but I can't remember when I stopped using it. I'm not sure if the general scholarly reader will remember this, though. Even FriendFeed was a short bubble compared to Science Twitter
I even found a blog post by you 😅 https://cameronneylon.net/blog/why-the-web-of-data-needs-to-be-social/
@biocs @cameronneylon ah, good one! I was thinking about Connotea, but I think that was MIA for years in 2015 already
(here's some old blog posts, and adding a few more in the next hour: https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/tag/citeulike)
oh, indeeed! "An export tool remained live until April 16, 2013 so that registered users could export their bookmarks."
I have to admit, it felt earlier
Cameron Neylon
Michael Kuhn
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥