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Soup.io

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Type of business
  
Privately held company

Industry
  
Microblog service

Headquarters
  
Vienna (Austria)

Website
  
www.soup.io

Founder(s)
  
Christopher Clay, Lukas Fittl, Andreas Fuchs

Slogan(s)
  
Publish, collect, share.

Soup.io is an Austrian social networking and microblogging site.

Contents

Introduction

Soup.io allows the user to publish (editable in HTML) text, images, videos, links, quotes and reviews. It allows users to share files (within the limit of 10 MB) and create events. Its interface professes to follow the KISS principle. In March 2015, Soup.io had close to 3.8 million monthly users.

In January 2017, Soup.io suffered data loss, and had to be restored over several weeks from a 2015 backup.

Features

  • Aggregation in real time data from issues of social networks, blogs and RSS.
  • Auto-posting data from other social networks (including Digg, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Twitter, or even Tumblr)
  • Infinite scrolling of content
  • Publication (by sending email, via a javascript Favorites, or from soup.io) and possible edition in HTML
  • Re-posting of content from other blogs on the service, after the manner of Tumblr
  • Groups
  • Videos channels
  • Code custom CSS
  • Integration of domain names
  • Semi-private access to a blog

    • Awards

    Soup.io received an investment during Seedcamp 2008, has been classified by the Guardian as one of the essential 100 websites of 2009, and was named "Innovative IT-Challenger" by APA – IT in September 2009.

    References

    Soup.io Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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