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By: Paul Left

Paul Left — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:16:26 +0000

And now delicious is under threat:

http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html

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By: Paul Left

Paul Left — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:21:47 +0000

And now educators are moving from 2nd Life because it’s become too costly:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/academics-discuss-mass-migration-from-second-life/27672

Understandably, Stephen Downes asks ‘Is it too soon for me to say “I told you so?”.

By: Paul Left

Paul Left — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:27:28 +0000

And now Vox is closing down:

http://closing.vox.com/

Teachers using a free Vox site to support learning will need to look elsewhere. But at least it ought to be reasonably easy to export a Vox site into WordPress (say), whereas getting your stuff out of Ning was not straightforward.

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By: Paul Left

Paul Left — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:30:51 +0000

And now Ning plans to discontinue its free service:

http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-phasing-out-free