No Bijou, Red Carpet or Cristal For Feedster

you whores only come for the hot chicks.
Originally uploaded by .lush.

When people like Bijou in Paris' possee won't turn up for a red carpet event put on by your (now largely Japanese owned) company, in this case Feedster, it's time for a radical turnaround (kinda like what technorati did, but there problems always seemed more hypergrowth and usual search ones such as spam etc than RSS atrophy) The only other option is for Feedster to be assimilated. (im thinking tier 2 - will it be a consolidation by another recency search player eg mobius/technorati (would make their market share numbers good), bloglines/iaci (probably dont have the interest), blogpulse or a portal wannabee looking to diversify, or maybe an enterprise competitive intelligence business (quite possible) who could chop the consumer business (how dot bomb eh ?;) ? Jeremy Zawodny in a scathing piece "Feedster will Die in 2006" : "A lot of folks have been making predictions for 2006. Here is the first of mine: by the end of 2006, Feedster will be dead and buried. Technorati, on the other hand, will be just fine."

Scott Rafer chips in : "Before you make any more predictions for 2006, remember that each and every blog search business needs to figure out a business model, be bought for a multiple of its VC funding, or both -- and probably this year. The business model aspect is clear for Feedster, and it hasn't consumed a lot of VC financing."