{{Infobox company | name = Ouibox | logo = | caption = | type = Private | genre = | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. ({{Start date|2006}}) | founder = Peyton Fouts | location_city = Lexington, Kentucky | location_country = U.S. | location = | locations = | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = Peyton Fouts | industry = | products = | production = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = https://www.ouibox.com | footnotes = | intl = }}
'''Ouibox''' was a website headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. It featured a social network aggregator, a writing tool called OuiWrite which auto-cited sources, and an affiliate shopping tool called OuiShop which generated donations to charities without affecting a user's purchase price.<ref name="huffington">{{Cite news | first = Chris | last = Curtin | title = 'Tis the Season to Give Back -- Digitally | date = December 17, 2010 | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-curtin/tis-the-season-to-give-ba_b_798199.html | work = Huffington Post | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125230806/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-curtin/tis-the-season-to-give-ba_b_798199.html | archive-date=January 25, 2013 | url-status=dead | accessdate = January 15, 2011}}</ref>
Ouibox signed up 8000 users on the week it launched. <ref name="lamplighter"> {{cite news | first = Alex | last = Davis | title = We say 'oui' to Ouibox: A revolution in networking | date = 2010-12-01 | url = http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/articleid/393845/newspaperid/1666/We_say_oui_to_Ouibox_A_revolution_in_networking.aspx | website=my.hsj.org | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414231357/http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/articleid/393845/newspaperid/1666/We_say_oui_to_Ouibox_A_revolution_in_networking.aspx | archive-date=April 14, 2013 | url-status=dead | accessdate = 2011-01-16}}</ref> It was one of the first investments of the Bluegrass Angels Venture Fund II.<ref name="UKEconDev"> {{cite news | first = Kacie | last = Miller | title = Young Lexington Entrepreneur Launches OuiBox (Editors Note) | date = 2010-10-27 | url = http://www.econdev.uky.edu/news/news-ouibox102710.aspx | work = University of Kentucky EconDev News | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107093503/http://www.econdev.uky.edu/news/news-ouibox102710.aspx | archive-date=January 7, 2011 | url-status=dead | accessdate = 2011-01-16}}</ref>
==History== Ouibox was founded in 2006 by Peyton Fouts, a graduate of the English and Communications programs at the University of Kentucky.<ref name="herald-leader">{{Cite news | first = Tom | last = Eblen | title = Young Lexington entrepreneur launches OuiBox | date = October 27, 2010 | url = http://tomeblen.bloginky.com/2010/10/27/young-lexington-entrepreneur-launches-ouibox/ | work = Lexington Herald-Leader | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118063414/http://tomeblen.bloginky.com/2010/10/27/young-lexington-entrepreneur-launches-ouibox/ | archive-date=January 18, 2013 | url-status=dead | accessdate = January 15, 2011}} </ref><ref name="uknow">{{Cite news | first = Erin | last = Holaday | title = Oui! UK Alum Launches Life-Changing Web Tool | date = November 10, 2010 | url = http://uknow.uky.edu/node/13134 | work = University of Kentucky UKNOW | accessdate = January 16, 2011}}</ref>
Archived records indicate that its website showed no changes on its homepage between June 2014<ref name="june14">{{cite web |url=http://www.ouibox.com/ |title=OuiWrite |publisher=OuiBox |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619145042/http://www.ouibox.com/ |archivedate=19 June 2014 |accessdate=23 December 2021}}</ref> and July 2019.<ref name="july19">{{cite web |url=http://www.ouibox.com/ |title=OuiWrite |publisher=OuiBox |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703112832/http://www.ouibox.com/ |archivedate=3 July 2019 |accessdate=23 December 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> The site had disappeared completely by August 2019.<ref name="aug19">{{cite web |url=http://www.ouibox.com/ |title=OuiWrite |publisher=OuiBox |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812023855/http://ouibox.com/ |archivedate=12 August 2019 |accessdate=23 December 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.ouibox.com Ouibox] * [http://www.ouibox.com/info/press_room.html Ouibox pressroom]
Category:Companies based in Lexington, Kentucky Category:Privately held companies based in Kentucky Category:Internet properties established in 2006 Category:Aggregation websites Category:American social networking websites Category:Defunct social networking services Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2019 Category:2006 establishments in Kentucky Category:2019 disestablishments in Kentucky