Comments on: Microsoft-backed social network gets walloped

Wallop, which started as a Microsoft research project offering a business model that echoed of virtual-world avatars and debuted at the Demo conference two years ago, shuts its doors.

[The_happy_switcher]

Ha ha, what a shocker.

[thelemurking]

No different than a paid service like the iPhone's .mac or whatever that has problems staying up, so a free beta site shutting down doesn't really effect anyone.

Honestly, it's not like it had a chance in hell with the popularity of FaceBook and MySpace. Look at Google's Orkut social network. You would think it would be absolutely HUGE consider it being Google, but how many people in the US know about it?

[chad.armstrong]

give it until V2, then it will be better! ;)

[Vegaman_Dan]

I have never heard of this service. But then again, I have never visited Facebook, MySpace, or any other social site like that so I'm not likely going to know about it. <p>
Just because I find such social sites a waste of bandwidth to me doesn't mean they don't have a place for those who do like to use them.

[iBuzz]

Wallop was actually an internal Microsoft project from 2001 until it got spun off. Yes, that's right. Microsoft had an internal social networking project going years before MySpace and Facebook came onto the scene. But just like Microsoft completely missed the boat with the web and MP3 players, it had no idea what to do with social networking until other companies came along and showed it how significant it was.

[robertkim90]

im not very surprised that they failed because myspace and facebook allow profile spruce ups for free. Why would anyone wanna pay for a less popular version of facebook or myspace?



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