Will PubSub soon be sleeping with the fishes?

June 7, 2006 | By Matt Craven | Filed Under General

What’s this?

It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes

Cue dramatic music….

Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington believes that Pubsub is imploding after an attempt at a merger failed.

I tried to use Pubsub a few times and failed utterly at doing so. If a relatively smart guy like me can’t figure it out - how can the rest of the masses?

Co-Founder Bob Wyman is commenting over at Techcrunch.

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About the author: Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a boutique web 2.0 firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He blogs at Telegraphik & The Blog Herald. You can follow him on Twitter.

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2 Responses to “Will PubSub soon be sleeping with the fishes?”

Hope Leman on June 7th, 2006 12:28 am

I am called to know how that is spelled. I always thoght it was Lou Cabrazzi.

Anyway, you are quite right. PubSub was too hard to use and the results were underwhelming and oftentimes way off target. Better tools came along–more by the day. I gave up trying to figure out how to figure out how to use PubSub. Web 2.0 is all about enabling airheads (like moi) to avoid having to figure anything out.
» Is Pubsub at its end? The Blog Herald: more blog news more often on June 16th, 2006 6:55 am

[…] Earlier this month we posted about the impending doom of Pubsub. In one of the most public posts by a CEO about the state of their company and the situation that led them there, Bob Wyman of Pubsub paints a not-too-pretty picture: I can’t deny that things are not going well for us. Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute a merger has been blocked and we’ve been blocked from raising equity financing that would allow us to continue to pay salaries and pay off our $3 million in debt. Thus, our “doors” will close soon if we can’t find someone to pull us out of the current situation. Persons with fast access to cash and a desire for some of the industry’s best technology are advised to contact us rapidly… […]

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