Tonight, users of the social media service Hashable received an email:
Dear Hashable Users,
We regret to inform you that the Hashable mobile apps and Hashable.com will be shutting down on July 25th. The service will be unavailable after this date.
While we are still very passionate about making better connections and meeting new people, the time has come for us to focus our energy elsewhere.
Some of you have stored valuable information in Hashable, and we want to give you the opportunity to save that data for your own records. If you’d like to receive a file with your complete history, please log onto Hashable.com, navigate to the “Profile” tab, then to the “Your History” section on that page. You can download the file by clicking “Export full history to .csv” and accepting the dialog that pops up.
We are incredibly grateful for all the people we have met through Hashable. Thank you for all your support, and we hope to connect with you again in the future.
All the best,
The Hashable Team
During my SXSW 2011 trip, Hashable advertising was everywhere. It was the app of SXSW, and everybody was in a seeming Hashable frenzy. Maybe it was the fact that it never went anywhere afterwards, or that it was yet another perpetually “in beta” service, but Hashable just failed to click with social media users.
Hashable is (was) a service that allowed you to easily share contact information with other users, and check in with people rather than places (like you do with Foursquare). It was something like what LinkedIn could have (should have) been. You could say “I’m at a lunch meeting with Bob”, and if Bob was also a Hashable user, all of your contact info was shared.
At a convention in a professional setting (like SXSWi), it was a very useful tool. When I left Austin, I never really used it again. When I got a new phone, I simply forgot to install it. I didn’t even remember it existed until today when I got that email.
Perhaps that says it all.
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