🧟 Product Graveyard ⚰

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1. 📰 The Vivatic website will be taken down on Sunday 1st September 2019. On this day you will no longer have access to your account and all links to our partner companies for jobs and surveys will be removed. ~ reddit.com

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1. 📰 Google isn't going to just drop a billion-install user base, though, and despite Hangouts Classic and Hangouts Chat being different services with different use cases, Google plans to close the gap between the two and migrate Hangouts Classic users to Hangouts Chat. Google says it will spend April through September launching new features for Hangouts Chat. That will include, the company says, "features from classic Hangouts" and some interoperability. ~ arstechnica.com

Hangouts Alternatives

Google Fusion Tables Alternatives

1. Tableau - Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.
2. Qlikview - QlikView is business intelligence software that gives companies a direction using full business analysis to navigate a competitive market.
3. CollateBox - Web-based app for collating and sharing parts of your spreadsheet.
4. » All Google Fusion Tables alternatives

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1. 📰 Google Correlate will shut down on December 15th 2019 as a result of low usage. You can download your data under Manage my Correlate data in the top bar. ~ google.com

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1. 📰 The slow death of Wunderlist continues. Beginning April 15, Microsoft will disconnect Cortana and Wunderlist, so that you won’t be able to issue oral reminders via Cortana any more. It’s a consequence of Microsoft’s move away from the Wunderlist app, and toward its own Microsoft To-Do. As of January, Cortana integrates with Microsoft To-Do, though you’ll need to be running a Windows Insider version of the Windows 10. ~ pcworld.com

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1. 📰 We hardly knew you Microsoft's Remix 3D planned to shut down Remix 3D is shutting down, and users have until January 10, 2020 to download content before it's deleted. ~ windowscentral.com

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Python Fabric Alternatives

1. Android Studio - Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA
2. Firebase - Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications for mobile and web.
3. Xcode - Xcode 4 is the new version of Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.
4. » All Python Fabric alternatives

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1. 📰 We are integrating the best of Fabric into Firebase to give you one powerful platform. We'll support Fabric until March 31, 2020, but we recommend that you migrate to Firebase sooner so you can take advantage of the new tools we are building there. ~ get.fabric.io
2. 📰 Early next year, Firebase will have a new version of Crashlytics ready for developers to implement in their apps, including new support for the Crashlytics Beta service that allows for simplified beta testing. Finally, sometime mid 2019, the Fabric SDK will cease to work in favor of developers exclusively using the Firebase SDK. ~ 9to5google.com

Fabric by Google Alternatives

Google Trips Alternatives

1. TripIt - TripIt is a travel app that creates a master itinerary to organize all of your plans for your vacation or work trip in one spot.
2. Traveler Buddy - Travel Itinerary Management.
3. Roadtrippers - The ultimate road trip planner to help you discover extraordinary places, book hotels, and share itineraries all from the map.
4. » All Google Trips alternatives

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1. 📰 “Due to maintenance related issues, MoviePass services have been put on a temporary hold,” according to a MoviePass tweet. “Once we have resolved these technical problems, the service will be live again. We estimate this process will take several weeks. We sincerely appreciate your patience." ~ deseretnews.com
2. 📰 On the surface that sounds like a good thing, but as Movieweb notes, MoviePass is continuing to struggle. Last April, MoviePass suffered a number of unexpected service interruptions, restrictions of use, and price fluctuations. These issues led to roughly 90 percent of MoviePass subscribers to leave the service. The service was launched in 2011 with the promise that fans could see any movies any time they wanted at a limit of one movie per day. ~ comicbook.com

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1. 📰 ThinkGeek, the online destination with a vast catalog of nerdy and otherwise unique items, will close its website next month, the company has announced. The products aren’t disappearing, but will instead be made available under parent company GameStop’s website in a dedicated ThinkGeek section. The company revealed all of the details ahead of the site’s closure on July 2. ~ slashgear.com
2. 📰 After 20 years of serving the nerds of the internet with a wide variety of geek-related merchandise, ThinkGeek will officially close down its website and will migrate its operations over to its parent company GameStop’s website instead. In the meantime, the store is holding a 50 percent off “moving sale.” ~ theverge.com
3. 📰 It's the end of an era for longtime ThinkGeek fans, as the digital store announced this week that ThinkGeek.com officially is shutting down. Starting July 2, ThinkGeek's curated collection of apparel, collectibles, and other geeky merchandise will be available only in a ThinkGeek section at GameStop, its parent company. The 40 physical ThinkGeek stores across the US will remain open, but ThinkGeek.com will no longer be a place to shop. ~ gamespot.com

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1. 📰 The company, which provided medical equipment and a video platform (via iPad) that enabled doctors to talk with nursing home residents, says its struggle owed to the country’s very slow adoption of “value-based care” — in which doctors are paid based on patient outcomes — rather than the current “fee-for-service” model on which the healthcare industry still relies largely. ~ techcrunch.com

Call9 Alternatives

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1. 📰 Tali was not the first voice-enable time tracker for lawyers. The first was Workspace Assistant from Thomson Reuters, which I wrote about in May 2017. But while Workspace Assistant could be used only with TR’s 3E Workspace, Tali was the first that could be used as a standalone product or through third-party integrations. ~ lawsitesblog.com

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1. 📰 After months of uncertainty and disruption, we have regretfully decided to shut down all digital assets exchange services and operations today. It is, without a doubt, a sad day for all digital assets and blockchain enthusiasts in India and we can’t express in words how hard it’s been for us to make this decision. ~ medium.com

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1. 📰 SupportHound was founded in 2016 by Julie Gentili Armbrust, an attorney and family law mediator in Oregon. The site uses data collected from actual cases to analyze the financial situations of parties going through a divorce and recommend a suggested support award. The suggestion forms a data-driven basis for negotiations with opposing counsel. In an email last week to SupportHound customers, Armbrust said that she had made the difficult decision to shut down the site. ~ lawsitesblog.com

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1. 📰 Now it is the time to move on from BBM. The user’s version of the BlackBerry Messenger will be going to delete on May 31. Emtek, the Indonesia-based company which has a partnership with BlackBerry in 2016. ~ techbillow.com

BlackBerry Messenger Alternatives

YouTube Gaming Alternatives

1. Twitch - Twitch is one of the most prominent streaming services around, serving as a platform primarily for video game and pop culture streamers.
2. Livestream - A video live streaming platform that allows it's customers to broadcast live video content...
3. Mixer - A network empowering creative professionals to connect with the right people, find jobs, and recruit talent.
4. » All YouTube Gaming alternatives

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1. 📰 Utrip made money by licensing its software and building products for businesses in the hospitality space, such as hotels and cruise lines. In 2017, Utrip partnered with JetBlue to create a trip-planning portal stitching together flights, hotels, must-see sites, activities, and restaurants. Other “strategic partners” included Hilton, Holland America Line, Allegiant, and Starwood Preferred Guest. ~ geekwire.com

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1. 📰 Chitika tells publishers that they need to remove all ad code by April 30, 2019. “Please remove all Chitika ad code from all your websites on or before April 30th 2019. Any Chitika ad code or other calls to Chitika ad services after this time period will cease to operate.” Based on the termination of their partnership with their biggest exchange partner, no earnings accumulated after March 1, 2019 will be paid out. ~ billhartzer.com

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1. 📰 To HomeShare’s employees: it’s an understatement to say that our story did not end where I hoped it would. Thank you for your dedication and hard work. You enabled HomeShare to expand to five markets, 50 properties and reach many residents’ lives. Our mission was one worth fighting for and I am thankful for the time and energy put forth behind each line of code, each installed partition, and each matched resident. ~ homeshare.com