The passing away of spaces on the web I considered important ★
1. revieware - I’m not sure this really ever took off. People still prefer to use their own blogs to post reviews and things they find interesting. I think revieware as a community website was a failure because there was no real aim. A review website built to allow anybody to post anything may never be a good idea. In my view, it has to have a certain minimum number of administrators who are willing to nurture it over its life. I thank all the people who helped start revieware.blogspot.com and subsequently revieware.net. I’m not sure I find the need to keep the domain name, someone else could probably put it to better use. I’m just happy I got to play around with revieware.
2. fotogrAbhishek - I think Prateek was the only person who really visited this blog. And looking at Rungta’s Photoblog is what got me busy starting that blog. I figured that I certainly do not have that passion he has, and it’s only something I would like to but not so much as to be able to maintain a separate photoblog. The photoblog has ended but not fotogrAbhishek itself. If you noticed, it has become part of xAbhishek.com. So yes, feel free to remove fotogrAbhishek.xabhishek.com from your feed readers and list of active links.
3. Orkut - It was a crazy invite-only service that became crazier when public signups opened up. I joined, I browsed, I updated profiles once in a while, I got a lot of spam, I screamed, I deleted my Orkut account.
4. Hotmail - A service I signed up because everyone else I knew did. I used it for MSN Messenger, I still do. But the Hotmail part of it is gone and I am happy without it.
5. Blogger - A great service, but I may never use this service again. I hope that I don’t have to. Wordpress.org is what I’ll stick to for the time being.
You did post some great photos though and its good to know that you’ll continue sharing those via your flickr account.
Oh and you’re definitely better off without Orkut and Hotmail.
You aren’t dropping revieware are you? Dude, I got to talk to you regarding this…
Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)