IAC

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Event year2010

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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

Pending assessment

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02 / IAC FAILURE REASONS

Failure factors

IAC/Ask.com was shutting Bloglines; Ask.com President Doug Leeds said the RSS-reader market was not growing and was shrinking as users shifted to realtime streams such as Twitter, with IAC research showing about a 20% decline in RSS feed consumption.

Market Decline

Bloglines/RSS-reader market not growing and shrinking as users move to realtime news streams (e.g. Twitter).

Product Obsolescence

IAC market research cited ~20% decline in people consuming RSS feeds; Ask.com would focus on its Q&A site instead.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

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04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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Rebuild difficultyPending assessmentNot completed

Scoring basisNot completed

ScalabilityPending assessmentNot completed

Scoring basisNot completed

Overall assessment: Not completed

05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH

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