When a great idea doesn’t work out–ikordo closes its doors
I first caught iKordo at Office 2.0 last summer and then caught up with them again at DEMO08. Things sounded like they were going well, but I guess things have changed:
However, my sources tell me that the firm found out what probably a lot of people could have told them - although lots of people have difficulty arranging meetings, especially between three or more people, most web apps tend to be beaten by people just picking up the phone. Getting adoption for a new service outside the enterprise is probably pretty damn hard.
As someone who was recently on the end of an ikordo invite, I have to say the interface to it was pretty damn confusing and it seemed to take days to organise a simple lunch. Or perhaps it was just me? Source: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » ikordo cancels all meetings [Falco]
This saddens me a bit, it was a great idea. Did I use ikordo a lot? No because I really don’t schedule that many meetings, and when I do it’s usually with just a few people.
That said I’m also trying out Montreal-based Tungle for setting up meetings and even though I was hesitant to add another thing to Outlook, I really like it.
I should do a little post about them soon. In the meantime here is my chat with the folks from ikordo when I was at DEMO08:
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