Soup.io

Soup.io
Type of business Privately held company
Headquarters Vienna (Austria)
Founder(s) Christopher Clay, Lukas Fittl, Andreas Fuchs
Industry Microblog service
Website www.soup.io
Alexa rank Increase 3,698 (March 2015)[1]
Launched April 2007
Current status Online

Soup.io is an Austrian social networking and microblogging site.

Introduction

Soup.io allows the user to publish (editable in HTML) text, images, videos, links, quotes and reviews. It allows users to share files (within the limit of 10 MB) and create events. Its interface professes to follow the KISS principle. In March 2015, Soup.io had close to 3.8 million monthly users.[2]

In January 2017, Soup.io suffered data loss, and had to be restored over several weeks from a 2015 backup.[3][4] After that the ownership was transferred to its webhost who will continue running it out of personal interest of the company's CEO[5].

Features

  • Aggregation in real time data from issues of social networks, blogs and RSS.
  • Auto-posting data from other social networks (including Digg, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Twitter, or even Tumblr)
  • Infinite scrolling of content
  • Publication (by sending email, via a javascript Favorites, or from soup.io) and possible edition in HTML
  • Re-posting of content from other blogs on the service, after the manner of Tumblr
  • Groups
  • Videos channels
  • Code custom CSS
  • Integration of domain names
  • Semi-private access to a blog

Awards

Soup.io received an investment during Seedcamp 2008,[6] has been classified by the Guardian as one of the essential 100 websites of 2009,[7] and was named "Innovative IT-Challenger" by APA – IT in September 2009.[8]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Soup.io Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  2. ↑ Quantcast
  3. ↑ "Update after crash ;)". 2017-02-13.
  4. ↑ Clay, Christoper (2017-02-01). ""I've heard that @soup_io will be coming back online in the next days; but likely with some significant data loss after hardware failure #fyi"".
  5. ↑ "Is soup.io about to shutdown for good? - Quora". www.quora.com. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  6. ↑ Seedcamp 2008 Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ The 100 essential websites – The Guardian
  8. ↑ Innovative http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OBS_20090918_OBS0011 "IT-Challenger" von – APA – IT ausgezeichnet – ANHÄNGE – APA
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