It's the end of the line for Intute, a service I welcomed with great praise and fanfare when it launched. So what went wrong? The short answer is that its funding was cut late last year. This article looks at the long answer. "Our unique selling point of human selection and generation of descriptions of Web sites was a costly model, and seemed somewhat at odds with the current trend for Web 2.0 technologies and free contribution on the Internet.... Technological developments, changing user expectations and diminishing budgets mean that services such as Intute will need to find new ways to engage with their communities, and the search for alternative business models will require new ways of thinking." Andy Powell also comments. Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams, Ariadne, September 1, 2010 [Link] [Comment]

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