Another Google service bites the dust: Shared Stuff

Wed, Feb 25th, 2009

Back in September 2007, Google launched one of its first products explicitly meant to be social. Shared Stuff was its answer to services by competitors such as Yahoo’s Delicious and to some extent, sharing on Facebook. The service had potential because it had Google’s weight behind it, and it was clear the company wanted to move into the social sphere. But shortly after its launch, a funny thing happened: Like so many of its other products, Google completely and utterly neglected Shared Stuff. It withered, and come March 30, Google is officially killing it off, the company confirms with us.

If you go to your Shared Stuff page - if you have a Google account, you have one, but probably don’t realize it, obviously a big part of the problem - there’s a message at the top that reads:

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