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Richard Clark shares the Entrecard story on his blog ::: "...in July 2009, the site was sold to Ziprunner. My services transferred across for the purposes of maintenance and some development. At the time of the sale, it was pushing well over a million widget views and ad impressions a day, had a five-digit user-base, and the credit economy was in the millions.
A few days ago, in September 2012, my monitoring system indicated Entrecard had stopped responding. When I checked the system it was completely down. I sent a query to the owner and they made the decision to let it stay that way. An amazing experiment that touched the lives of thousands of bloggers across the internet had come to an end.
While Entrecard never became Facebook or Google, I have a special place for it in my heart."
[LiNk]
For every beginning there is an end.
"There’s a time to blog, and a time not to blog, a time to join Entrecard and a time to leave Entrecard."
I joined entrecard somewhere around November or December of 2009. I wrote a lengthy post about my decision to sign on with the network which you can view here, and I don't for one minute regret participating.
In recent days the service has been rather unsteady, at times interfering with bloggers' page loading. As far as I'm concerned, Entrecard not only served its purpose, but went above and beyond the "call of duty" in introducing me to a variety of blogs and bloggers!
Thank-you, Entrecard!
John Cow saw this day coming (indeed, for him, it came early in 2008):
I joined entrecard somewhere around November or December of 2009. I wrote a lengthy post about my decision to sign on with the network which you can view here, and I don't for one minute regret participating.
In recent days the service has been rather unsteady, at times interfering with bloggers' page loading. As far as I'm concerned, Entrecard not only served its purpose, but went above and beyond the "call of duty" in introducing me to a variety of blogs and bloggers!
Thank-you, Entrecard!
John Cow saw this day coming (indeed, for him, it came early in 2008):
The EC powerusers are so keen on getting becoming popular within the ranks of the community (people like Lady Java, Mariuca, et. al.), that they are working hard in chain dropping their cards on all EC blogs each day (some of them dropping 900 cards to support three seperate blogs each), just to accumulate more credits and inflating their own advertising prices. Emails keep getting send around, asking for drops, reccomendations and whatever else it is that will get you popular on the categories pages. (parentheses mine)
Its really not doing any good for anyone. The blogs that get their cards dropped on are experiencing an increase in bounce rates.
Its really not doing any good for anyone. The blogs that get their cards dropped on are experiencing an increase in bounce rates.
PS - don't think your comrades at EC will miss you. It was a loose confederation at best, nothing proved that better than Entrewas, itself now defunct.
