Submitted by johnh on May 27, 2007 - 19:04.
Nobody seems to be talking about it, but Webjay will close next month, according to a well-concealed announcement on Wednesday.
Yahoo bought it only sixteen months ago.
Presumably it'll join Blo.gs, which Yahoo bought some time back from Jim Winstead, assuring him throughout that they'd be taking good care of his baby. Last December 11th, someone at Yahoo broke it, and it remains buggered to this day. Nobody's built anything to replicate what it did yet, either.
Two examples, off the top of my head, of Yahoo rushing in, buying something which worked for thousands of people every day, and promptly smashing them to pieces.
So, if you need to make a couple of years' salary as quickly as possible and you don't mind having someone erect a permanent monument to your wasted effort and the kicking of your users in the face... why not give Yahoo a ring?