Seppuku 2.0

Sprout Com­merce has figu­red out how to com­mit sui­cide in the Web 2.0 ecosystem.

Imme­dia­tely after Pete Cashmore’s glo­wing review in April I began using MyPic­kList to manage my wish­lists, rather than using the “buy” tag in del.icio.us as I had before (and limi­ting myself to items that have records on Amazon.com is so Web 1.0).

Ima­gine my sur­prise, then, when my list just became a 404 error and Sprout repla­ced the home­page with a notice that they are “under­going recons­truc­tion to bet­ter serve our cus­to­mers” and impore me to “check back fre­quently to use our new and impro­ved ser­vice when we reopen.”

Yeah, right. I’ll be in line to trust you with my data right after you just ate it all. Thanks for was­ting my time and energy.

If Sprout wants to find out what I’m inte­res­ted in now, I guess they can go check out my wists.

  • Yet another app I'd love to have finished my own version of, but gave up when others hit market (or when I got lazy, whichever came first).

    But you should trust Sprout with a Web 2.0 app -- just look at their site: sans-serif typeface, body background gradient, logo-gradient, contrasting diagonal background texture, a leaf in the logo, and did you read that copy? They must get it.
  • Yep, I agree that it's unwise to completely take down a site, even if a relaunch is underway. I'm gonna mail them and see what's up.
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