Yahoo Shuts Bix Down. Did Anyone Notice?

It must be disconcerting to a big Net company to shut down a whole website and nobody even notices. Not even a short note on Twitter from a concerned user. But that’s what apparently happened.

At some point Yahoo shut down Bix, a karaoke and contest website that they acquired in late 2006. Yes, at some point in 2006 someone at Yahoo said “Karaoke? Contests? We gotta own that!”

Six days ago at least it was still up and running at bix.yahoo.com. Now that just redirects to m.www.yahoo.com.

We first wrote about Bix in July 2006

and thereupon again in August 2006. The company had raised $6.77 million from Sutter Hill Ventures, Trinity, and others prior to the acquisition.

If anyone knows when precisely that shut down, we want to know. It at least needs a proper burial before dropping into the deadpool. We’ve plus got an mail in to Yahoo PR.

Thanks for noticing, @charliebravo.

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