Milo, which will continue to offer its product listings as a standalone site, offers much of the same functionality as Wishpond.
If Facebook has any trouble starting a service that a standalone company offers, it can just pay to swallow up the company.
With Stations, the company looks like it has taken an alternative approach by creating a standalone app that offers more direct competition to Pandora.
It's no longer sufficient to offer a standalone, isolated product.
The company will also offer a standalone, non-subscription version of Visual Studio Professional for $499.
But to be clear, Reply does not offer a standalone app of its own – it's just a way for people to respond to incoming messages.
Paris based Kelkoo has continued to offer a standalone comparative shopping service, whilst being used to power Yahoo Shopping sites for the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
HBO last month announced its intention to offer a standalone online subscription service in 2015, rivaling the likes of Netflix, Hulu and others.
It's worth noting that Microsoft will continue to offer a standalone, non-subscription version of Visual Studio Professional, too, for $499.
Wells said his vision is not just to offer a standalone collaborative product, but also to build "the connective tissue" between all your media production tools.
Sometimes they offer a standalone story, created expressly by the artist and writer for a longer format; other graphic novels collect a set of previously published comics into a single narrative arc.
