TubesNow Service to be Discontinued on January 31

A note on the Tubes forums alerts customers to the discontinuation of the service effective January 31, 2008 while support is closed as of today. Here is the official message from Tubes:

Announcement posted at 8:00 EST on 14 January 2008 – The Tubes service will be going away as of Jan 31, 2008.

Any data/files you have on your computer will not be lost.  However, the ability to synchronize your data/files will go away. All support services have been discontinued.  Automated Knowledge Base articles may remain available and you may find some help at www.tubesnow.com/forums.  However, you will not be receiving a response from Tubes to submitted requests.

Thank you for participating in our beta program.  The Tubes Team

Mark over at Mashable has some thoughts on why the service didn’t make it. When I met with VP Marketing of Tubes, Steve Chazin at a Starbucks in Manhattan last August, he was so excited about the new release. I thought the software was very smooth. My big concern that I raised to him was that his target was mainstream but I wasn’t sure if the mainstream crowd would "get it" — he kept talking about using this to share photos with my mother, I doubted that would ever happen.