It’s been an interesting and very rewarding nine months bringing a bit of entertainment to bloggers (and blog lovers). I’d like to thank especially all those people who donated money or their valuable time, those who became premium subscribers, those who worked on cool toys which made use of the fledgling API and all those who could be found on the forums and IRC channel. You turned a silly fun idea of a mad monkey coder in London into something worthy of the attention by thousands of bloggers and the press. —Seyed Razavi —Blogshares — Closed Down (Blogshares.com)
That’s too bad. Blogshares was a fantasy stock market that used incoming links as its form of currency. I also found it a good tool for tracking people who had linked to me, and (even better) a simple way to gauge the relative importance of blogs. But obviously the site required too much maintenance and brought in too little reveune. Thanks for the fun, Seyed!
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For whatever reason, my interest faded soon after the Beta test ended, but it was a lot of fun and a helpful introduction to a lot of cool blogs that I never would have read.
I'm sorry for you that you didn't get the chance to enjoy it. Maybe somebody will resurrect it.
I'm really bummed out about it. After just discovering it this past weekend and checking into it further, I was all excited because it combined two of my favorite things--blogging and the market. It went under before I even had a chance to play. It seemed quite sophisticated and I do wish someone would reincarnate it at some point.