PodTech.net had a lot of buzz around it primarily because blogger Robert Scoble left the sturdy walls of Microsoft to be a part of it. There were others with nice pedigrees, too, and $7.5 million in VC funding spelled sure success. It must not have spelled it in English, though. This week, PodTech sold to ViewPartner, a company that doesn't even seem to have a website, for under $500,000, or enough to purchase a one-bedroom condo in San Francisco.
One word, unless you've followed him beyond some magazine articles about him, synonymous with Robert Scoble is "blogger." One of the originals, Scoble literally wrote the book on the topic. And now, well, he seems to be disillusioned with the whole damn thing.