Less than a year and still in private beta, Thumbdive will be shutting down their service. We first profiled their service back in January and found their privacy control approach and a different UI a good change from the other services in the market. I had hope to see it go further, but apparently Airgini, the developer, did not see a bright future in it, as a consumer service. The service will cease on September 16, 2009.

Thumbdive won’t be going to the grave completely though. I’ve been told that they are working on a new version of Thumbdive, for the enterprise. With their already proven system with privacy and control, the move from consumer to enterprise service seems to be a better suited direction for them, not to mention, the possible revenue that comes with targeting enterprises.

We’ll have to wait and see how Thumbdive for the enterprise will shape up to be. Maybe we’ll be looking at a service similar to Yammer, the enterprise microblogging platform?

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