Image via CrunchBaseThe founders of Cliqset, Darren Bounds and Charlie Cauthen, announced just last year that their website was going to be shut down. Cliqset offered social syndication in high potential and aggregation service that was first launched in 2009. It gave users the facility to be able to post and syndicate all their online content on Cliqset, from other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz along with almost eighty other social or business sites and networks.
Louis Gray, a technology writer, published in November last year, that that ‘startup’ feature of Cliqset was very unique to start networks to implement ‘Pubsubhubbub’ for real-time updates, similarly he asserted that ‘Salmon’ was again a unique method of cross-network comment posting. Though even after having such distinguishing features, the service was still not able to gain considerable audience or active users. Consequently the founders of the website had to announce that it was going to shut down. Now, apparently Bounds has quickly moved on to his next project—Glow.
Bounds has written on his personal blog that Glow is his “personal attempt at building a social network that doesn’t sacrifice simplicity, features or user-experience in an effort to promote decentralization, user privacy and data ownership.” This new website, about which we only have vague information, is going to join both personal publishing and social conversation.
It is being expected that Glow will still make use of many same open protocols and standards which were used in Cliqset, including features like Activity Streams, Salmon, PubSubHubbub and Portable Contacts. Bounds stated that his effort is to apply a complete unique and unparallel approach towards social networking, distinguishable from other websites like Diaspora, OneSocialWeb or Status.net. His post also stated that “Feature wise it’s a little of Twitter, a little of Facebook and few of my own ideas. Think real-time, follow-model, @mentions, likes, comments and private group messaging to start.”
Surprisingly, Bounds have declared that he is not planning to do business from his new website. Back in November, Bounds had informed Gray that any of his future endeavors will not involve projects which benefit from users’ existing social graphs, he also acclaimed that “the need for success wouldn’t be contingent on relationships and community within itself.” The new website is not so far from being launched, Bounds have announced that he plans to roll out the first set of invitations for his website in the coming next two weeks.
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