The Industry Standard - Prediction: eCirkit will shut down its social networking service by Jan. 1, 2009 - Comments

The company is

Eric Hill812251 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:43:07 -0700

The company is non-responsive to requests for information. That being said, no one disputed the article David is linking to above. The site is down. Judged at 100%

See

David Kuan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:59:40 -0700

See http://thestandard.com/news/2008/09/04/briefly-predicted-niche-social-ne.... Looks like there has been some due diligence done to validate this.

@Eric, no problem. I am just

David Kuan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:11:30 -0700

@Eric, no problem. I am just as curious (despite having no position on this). Main site looks non-functional. Activity has dropped to near negligible levels. Yet, there were no announcements of its demise or problems (at least none that I could find).

@Bradley and @Kuan, we're

Eric Hill812251 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:30 -0700

@Bradley and @Kuan, we're looking into this and trying to track down what has happened. We have some theories as to why they are being so quiet, but need to do some more digging. Right now, getting an answer may take a little time.

Where are the links that

David Kuan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:26:43 -0700

Where are the links that report its demise?

Site's been shut down for at

Bradley Baker — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:15:23 -0700

Site's been shut down for at least the past few weeks.

Prediction: eCirkit will shut down its social networking service by Jan. 1, 2009

The Standard — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:58:06 -0700

In a crowd of larger and better-supported social networking sites and an uncertain economic climate, eCirkit will be forced to shut down its social networking service by the end of this year.

The criteria for this prediction coming true are a public announcement from the company that it is no longer supporting the website or its features.

This prediction will close approximately one week before the judgement date, or when an announcement is made, whichever comes first. (Note: This prediction is part of The Industry Standard special feature, Opinion: 10 'Net services that will succeed, and 10 that will probably fail. To see the related article, click here. To read the rest of the special feature, and see the many related predictions, click here.)