Posted by yaph on August 11, 2008 at 9:36pm
Bloomstreet.net one of the biggest German Drupal sites and probably the biggest German social network built with Drupal was closed a few days ago.
Bloomstreet was certainly not shut down because it was built with Drupal, but, as was reported by German media, venture capitalist Bertelsmann was discontent with Bloomstreet's growth.
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Do you have online references?
(in German or otherwise)
All I've found while searching are a handful of blog pages that neither link the closing with Drupal nor give any other reason.
Here are some links that
Here are some links that cover Bloomstreet's end in more detail.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,568480,00.html
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2008/06/24/bloomstreet-am-ende/
http://www.horizont.net/aktuell/digital/pages/protected/show-77096.html
According to the article at deutsche-startups.de Bloomstreet.net "only" had 150,000 users, whereas wer-kennt-wen.de another Bertelsmann social networking venture has about 3 million users. It's said to be the cause for focusing on wer-kennt-wen.de and getting rid of Bloomstreet.
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Here is a good
Here is a good article
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2008/06/24/bloomstreet-am-ende/
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