Fwd: Important Notice: Microsoft Hohm will be available through May 31, 2012

[Toby Evans]

Hot on the heels of Google Powermeter, Microsoft Hohm is being closed as well ....

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[Toby Evans]

this may explain why:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hohm#q=hohm&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&ei=fbwMTp6KC8jBhAf2vvHWDQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=9&ved=0CBsQ_AUoCA&prmdo=1&tbm=mbl&tbs=mbl_hs:1293840000,mbl_he:1325375999&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=27d14afec6db7fdc&biw=1385&bih=848

doesn't get mentioned very often ...

T

[mikethebee]

That link just gives me a search listing for 'Hohm' was there a particular entry that caught your eye?

 I'm guessing it may be the reference to it still being a 'Beta'.

Mike.

[Toby Evans]

Hi Mike,

it was Google twitter analysis for Hohm over time - barely anything

I read during the week that Hohm was only ever a strategic product so
that Google didn't have the field to itself, which is why it was
dropped so quickly after Powermeter. I certainly didn't have any
success in talking to the Microsoft Developer Evangelists over here
about it

Shame, because they had a far better user interface than Google, had
more things thought through (eg what to do if you don't have a smart
meter, other forms of energy than electricity)

T

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