SezWho - Smells Like Stinky Poo

Continuing my "smells bad series" is another startup called SezWho. Never mind the fact that the name itself it stupid, "SezWho - Me, you jerk" the whole idea of behind this company is outright dumb. According to TechCrunch, "It focuses on simply helping separate the good commentors from the noise by adding ratings and reputations to your blog comments."

I have a question, who the hell cares. So what if you or your readers can sort your posts comments by the most trustworthy commenter. Who gives a damn about those people, whose new professional career is "A Professional Commenter On Sites That Don't Matter". SezWho just raised another million dollars to speed up development, but it isn't even clear how are they supposed to make money off their product.

The participants in their program put a widget on their site that will show author popularity beside those author's comments and some Red Carpet (Ooh, that's clever) widget that you can stick on the front page of your blog/site to showcase you best commenters. (as a side note, blogger's spell check underlined the word commenters).

Of course people who would like to gain rating from their comments will have to sign up with SezWho and possibly visit the place once in a while to see their ratings, but I don't see it generating much traffic to justify 1 million dollar investement, even if they manage to sell 1 million dollar worth of ad space. No one will be looking at the ads, because no one is going to be there, just like all of those widget providers for sites, no one will see you ads, because most people will come to your site once, just to sign up and get the widget.

So here's my bile about SezWho and another dumb idea by a company that only "has a more basic offering than the Disqus or Intense Debate", yet they receive $1 million dollars in financing. What a waste.

"More millions wasted today on Web 2.0 than was spent on [insert your favorite world problem here]"

Today's favorite world problem: Adding additional police officers in trouble cities across America to curb down violent crime

Take Care

Joining X9Live.com

I've stumbled across a startup Technolog Blogs Network site, which helps lesser known blogs with branding and increasing web exposure. Seems like an interesting AND ORIGINAL idea.

They are called X9Live.com, I am going to try to join, they have to approve the process, we'll see if they will like me.

Soup.io - Smells like B/O

This post begins my "smells bad series" (you'll see what I mean as the posts start to roll in).

To start off my first bile, I decided to look at soup.io -- a new startup funded by Y Combinator.
The basic idea behind the startup is (you'll never guess) "The easiest way to publish, collect, and share what you're creating, thinking about, or discovering online."

To put it plainly, its a freaking rss feed aggregator/reader/storer, similar to the one our neighborhood's friendly search engine provides for free. But I am wrong, its not just a feed reader, it is a social feed reader meaning you can aggregate, combine, submit and share your feeds with the world (without signingup) and with friends (if you sign up).

To me it seems that Soup.io is another mindless, stupid, waste of money idea, that some investor with tons of cash to throw around supported because he works under the principle "it could be shit, but if I package it nicely, people will buy it". So as a result, shit like soup.io get media attention and contribute to the collective Tech Waste 2.0 that sucks up hours of people's lives, taking them away from their families, friends, and other activities.

"More millions wasted today on Web 2.0 than was spent on [insert your favorite world problem here]"

Today's favorite world problem: fixing the environment so that we don't drown or die of thirst in the next 20 years or so.

Take care.

P.S. I'm not gonna link to any of the companies that I bile about here. Take that, you useless, money wasting wankers. :)

Switching Gears

Hello All,

I've started this blog wanting it to be a place for posts of personal nature, relating to my endeavours in the tech space. But as my endeavours went, I got too angry watching and reading about tens of companies receiving Series A, B, C, D, E,F round of financing from Venture Capitalist companies. What angried me the most was the fact that most of these had ideas that any normal person would call stupid, dumb, stultifying, not worthy of anyones attention. However, as we all know, all you have to do to receive millions of dollars in financing is get a dumb idea, move to Silicon Valley, knock on VCs doors and they will gladly spew out a few rounds in financing for you to get your expensive office, buy a porsche and close shop a year or two after you opened it.

Sure there are some that make it, or even offer some innovative ideas, but most just burn through the cash and die. Why do VCs waste their money on these brainless 'innovators, founders, creators'? Why?.

So in this blog I will vent about the new and existing web/tech 2.0 companies that should never have gotten funding from anyone, even the founders grand mother.

By the way, my inspirition comes from Hani at BileBlog (for all the anger) and TechCrunch (The list of suspects).

Until next time.

T.