Microsoft Popfly Gets Squashed

Microsoft has announced that in late August it will be discontinuing availability and support for its once popular mashup creation application Popfly . In a blog post , team leader John Montgomery confirms the internal deadpooling , although he doesn't call it the way we do. He writes that on August 24, 2009 the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down. Montgomery points developers to Microsoft's Web Platform and Xbox development program as all projects that were created using Popfly will effectively be discontinued completely. TechCrunch got an early look at the Silverlight-powered application when it debuted in private beta mode over 2 years ago. At the time, mash-up and widget creation tools were all the rage , with Yahoo introducing its Pipes web app just a few months prior.