RIP Bloomstreet

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Posted by yaph on August 11, 2008 at 9:36pm

Bloomstreet.net one of the biggest German Drupal sites and probably the biggest German social network built with Drupal was closed a few days ago.
Bloomstreet was certainly not shut down because it was built with Drupal, but, as was reported by German media, venture capitalist Bertelsmann was discontent with Bloomstreet's growth.

Categories: german, social network

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Do you have online references?

Posted by robertdouglass on August 12, 2008 at 6:33am

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(in German or otherwise)

All I've found while searching are a handful of blog pages that neither link the closing with Drupal nor give any other reason.

Here are some links that

Posted by yaph on October 4, 2015 at 10:47pm

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Here are some links that cover Bloomstreet's end in more detail.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,568480,00.html
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2008/06/24/bloomstreet-am-ende/
http://www.horizont.net/aktuell/digital/pages/protected/show-77096.html

According to the article at deutsche-startups.de Bloomstreet.net "only" had 150,000 users, whereas wer-kennt-wen.de another Bertelsmann social networking venture has about 3 million users. It's said to be the cause for focusing on wer-kennt-wen.de and getting rid of Bloomstreet.