Mister Wong Acquires Cligs
Today I am very excited to announce that Cligs has been acquired by Mister Wong! Cligs lives and from now on will continue to grow under the management of an established company with a history of building great Web 2.0 companies.
When I announced that Cligs was to shut down, I was contacted by several parties interested in taking over the service. I’d like to thank all of these people who were all very supportive of the service and wanted to keep Cligs running. I’d like to also thank all the users who contacted me privately and publicly to show their support and appreciation of Cligs.
I only considered serious buyers who would obviously take good care of Cligs’ existing users. For that, Mister Wong is a great choice and a large part of why they won out. Kai Tietjen, founder of Mister Wong, summarized their motivation by saying that, "Cligs is a complete service with a unique set of tools and a solid user base. Competition is healthy for the market and it would be a real shame to see such a useful service disappear. We are happy to add Cligs to our existing portfolio of Web 2.0 services and we look forward to welcoming all its users to the Wong family."
The hand-over work is already in progress and close to completion. Of course, I will continue working with the team at Mister Wong to ensure everything is running smoothly and correctly. We do not expect any interruptions during the hand-over, but please do let us know if you encounter anything out of the ordinary.
I’d like to close on a personal note as this is likely to be my very last post on this blog.
Firstly, thank you to each and every user of Cligs. Over a year ago when I launched Cligs, I never thought it would grow to be so big so fast. Your feedback and support helped grow Cligs to what it is today and now you get to help Mister Wong build the service you want.
Secondly, of course I’ll be working on other web apps. To keep updated or get in touch, below are my contact details:
- On Twitter: @pierrefar
- My LinkedIn profile (Please mention you knew me via Cligs.)
- My personal blog: Things of Sorts (I’ll start blogging more now that I have some more time
) - Email: cligs (at) pierrefar (dot) com
Cligs Mailing List
@cligs on Twitter
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Pierre, thanks for creating such a valuable site and being so responsive to users’ needs & requests.
Congrats on the sale & glad to see Cligs will continue on.
Cheers!
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Great news, Pierre. Apart from the problems created for a very short time with the .gs domain, it has been an outstanding and most reliable service. Congrats. I’m sure it will go from strength to strength with Mr. Wong.
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Congratulations, Pierre! That’s awesome news.
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Congrats, Pierre! Well deserved…
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Congratulations, Pierre! Thank you for all your time that you put into cli.gs, I’m glad to see it being placed in the hands of someone like Mister Wong :-).
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Very pleased to hear Cligs will be staying. I have been playing with other shorteners looking for a replacement and there just isn’t one!
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Congratulations Pierre, one of the first webby companies to make an exit here!
Dezember 1st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Congratulations on the sale, Pierre!
I’m using Cligs on a daily basis, and glad to read on Twitter that with this sale Cligs “will only get better”
Dezember 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 am
Hey Pierre, congratulations, you build an awesome website. If your next project is anywhere near as good as this one…
Dezember 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am
This is great news. I’m very pleased for you, but also very pleased for those of us who use the service. Thank you, Pierre.
Dezember 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Indeed, this is a unique service. It is no doubt a crowded market, but somehow cligs has always had a higher standard. Congrats to all involved, especially you Pierre.
Dezember 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Congrats, Pierre! Fantastic news.
Dezember 4th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Hope you got a generous sum that will enable you to spend the rest of your life in the lap of luxury! It’s a great service and I’m yet to find a url-shortener that offers all those nifty features that you offer.
Dezember 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Pierre, I am grateful for our continuing friendship that developed as a result of Cli.gs.
Your skills and focus have made sharing links easier for ppl while allowing them to better understand an important piece of communicating on the real time web.
“Shine on you crazy diamond”.
Dezember 8th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Great news Pierre and I look forward to following your future projects. You really should be patting yourself on the back for creating such an excellent service. Good luck in all your future endeavors.
Dezember 10th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Glad to hear the good news! I was worried there for awhile.