In reply to Ahsan Parwez.

It's too much to expect every service acquired will pay off and flourish. But, it is sad to see them left to link rot hell. I've been staff at sites which were sold with all kinds of promises and then the next day.... nothing and nothing ever again. Not even an explanation or reason.

I don't know why they bought Blo.gs and left it to finish dying after Yahoo had already ignored it. But, it's hardly something new. Take a look at Technorati, 9 Rules, and so many others which were big and bought and left to decay. Webrings, which was a way of linking sites before social media, died when Yahoo bought it. Some how that even killed off the offshoots like alt.webring and ringlink, etc.

There are so many services which Automattic could choose from it must be difficult to pick which is a winning horse versus one which will not get past the gate. But, it would be nice if they found some way to re-use them, or at least put them out of their misery rather than stagnating online.