Comments on: Psst, Want to Buy a Thoof? http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Five signs a tech startup is cratering from CIO.com « David Kirkpatrick http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191269 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:13:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191269 [...] competitor to Digg in the news voting space, went on the block and subsequently went under. An early warning sign? Alan Ren, co-founder, COO and CTO, left the [...]

]]> By: Post Express » Blog Archive » Five Warning Signs a Tech Startup Is in Trouble http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191268 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191268 [...] competitor to Digg in the news voting space, went on the block and subsequently went under. An early warning sign? Alan Ren, co-founder, COO and CTO, left the [...]

]]> By: Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust · ordaso.com http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191267 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:07:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191267 [...] site peaked in October, but by January the wheels were coming off the car. We heard at that time that the company would continue to limp along and see what happened. But in [...]

]]> By: Thoof Goes Poof! - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191266 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:41:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191266 [...] social news site took a dirt nap. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to our readers. Stacey had the scoop way back in January that the company started by Ian Clarke (one of the founders of Revver) was up [...]

]]> By: Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust | Christian eBuddy Blog http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191265 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:02:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191265 [...] site peaked in October, but by January the wheels were coming off the car. We heard at that time that the company would continue to limp along and see what happened. But in [...]

]]> By: Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191264 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:57:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191264 [...] site peaked in October, but by January the wheels were coming off the car. We heard at that time that the company would continue to limp along and see what happened. But in [...]

]]> By: Bette Carmer http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191263 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:18:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191263 This was interesting but why go to a copy when you can go to Digg.

]]> By: Persai, meet Findory and Thoof - - mathewingram.com/work http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191262 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:14:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191262 [...] Maybe they’re that much smarter than Greg Linden, who founded Findory, or Ian Clarke, who was behind Thoof. Maybe they have some kind of secret sauce. Not to mention the fact that I’m only going on [...]

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191261 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:51:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191261 Thoof is better than Digg, but any site relying primarily on user-generated content and ratings has to work hard to avoid becoming really narrow or overrun by spam. tiinker does personalisation without relying on social recommendation, so is immune to these problems: http://tiinker.com

]]> By: AustinStartup » Thoof for Sale? http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191260 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:34:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191260 [...] Q&A Wednesday , is rumored to be for sale, according to Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOm in a piece published on Thursday.   Stacey did some investigative reporting, and has found that Alan Ren, the company’s [...]

]]> By: Pilgrim’s Picks for January 18 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191259 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:29:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191259 [...] It appears that Digg wannabe Thoof is on the selling block. [...]

]]> By: nhickmarin http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191258 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:07:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191258 Thoof is better than digg really..

nhick
http://www.itrush.com

]]> By: Austin based Thoof for sale? : Texas Startup Blog http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191257 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:02:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191257 [...] to Stacey Higginbotham’s sources social news site Thoof is for sale.  The Digg style news aggregator.  She tried [...]

]]> By: Parul Bindra http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191256 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:21:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191256 What I liked about Thoof is that it’s taken a bunch of simple concepts — i.e. user-generated content, wiki-like editing, and personalized recommendations — and bundled them into something simpler, unique, and cool. The service is easy to use, and as the amount of submitted content on the site increases, I can imagine it getting to the standard of something like Newsvine, which also focuses on social news. Of course, the added recommendation engine is what makes Thoof stands out from the social media crowd, and it’s exciting to see it at work.

Parul Bindra
http://bhopu.com – Web 2.0 Blog

]]> By: coxy http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191255 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:45:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/17/psst-want-to-buy-a-thoof/#comment-191255 Thoof was nice when I first found it, but it quickly became full of spammers and idiot users who posted crap. Being frustrated at this, I contacted Thoof who added us as the first user-moderator on the site.

I stuck with Thoof for a while, doing my best to get rid of the rubbish submissions, but it became too laborious to be ‘fun’… and then there were browser incompatibility issues with the submission form, and then Google Ads.

In all honesty, I would’ve loved to see Thoof become something better than it had; it was a nice idea and was done well – they’ve just made some bad decisions to do with the site along the way.

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