tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34279567858028698902011-11-27T16:23:22.022-08:00For a long time I've watched VCs waste their money on companies whose product is a complete pile of s***t. So this is the place where I will vent my anger on these unbelievably dumb ideas and sites.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965312011004556120noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427956785802869890.post-26135385799111967882007-12-06T12:48:00.000-08:002007-12-06T12:50:16.318-08:00

Why is techcrunch posting on someone, no one knows about.

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From TechCrunch:San Diego based Digital Telepathy has changed direction from strategy-public relations to services, with a new model that will appeal to anyone who has ever wanted or needed a hand at getting their startup ideas off the ground. The concept is simple: Digital Telepathy offers three design my business options with varying service levels based on the length of each plan. The 15 day

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A new startup appropriately named Defensio has launched its flagship product for helping users deal with spam in comments. At the onset it sound like a great idea, help weed out the crap from the useful reviews submitted by your readers. But is it just another long overdue, now obsolete tool?It seems that from one point of view, Defensio is an obsolete tool, since there are much better options

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In the world of online everything, there are still many companies receiving funding for providing access to their non-unique services offline. My victim today is SocialText, which in the course of the last five years received $15 million worth in funding, with the latest round of $6 million occurring in recent weeks.SocialText makes a wiki, but not just any kind of wiki. They may a wiki that

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Starting this past Wednesday, Google's PR machine has been in high gear promoting its next biggest "free" offering. The Social Networking API, designed by Google and supported by a few big and small social networking sites, is suppose to act like the Facebook killer we were all hoping it be. I for once admired this venture because it was focused on completely alienating Facebook and shutting

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Just got a tip from one of my readers about his web 2.0 mobile project. WireNode is a provide/generator of mobile sites for your blog or website. The basic idea is, you provide an blog with an RSS feed and WireNode will make a simple site for you with your own URL (GoITExpert example "http://goitexpert.wirenode.mobi/"). It is a great new way to bring your content to the growing mobile market and

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Just noticed a new startup, this one is pretty interesting, new and innovative. ScratchBack is a new version of the now banned Text-Link-Ads.com, but apparently it is compatible with Google's policy on back linking since it uses javascript to offer "tips" when you hover over the link. It is an interesting and a UNIQUE idea, which definitely deserves some interest from VCs.At this point I am very

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Recently TechCrunch profiled 5Min How To video Startup raised another $5 million dollars in angel financing to "grow" their business of providing a way for people to upload and share "how to" videos on different topics.So what is so special about this "Startup"? Well, since the company's motto is "everybody's good at something" and they style themselves as a Life Videopedia (way to ruin the

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Apparently some one at wowmine.com decided to do some free in-game advertising by killing gnomes. The dead gnomes would fall into a pattern that spelled out wowmine.com on the floor of one of the cities. Of course, it was done with some sort of a hack, and Blizzard will most likely have that(those) accounts baned, but it is still a good advertising technique.Here's the link

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The now famous company CogHead (in part thanx to TechCrunch) has unveiled a newest addition to their product line up. Coglets allow you to embed, with one line of code, your CogHead based applications in your website.Now, here's the beef.[no beef found]I think their product is worth a shot and with a price tag of $49 a month for 5 users, is a very good deal.No Link, type CogHead in google or

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So, I was reading techCrunch's article about Technorati losing two of its technology gurus and one marketing director. Big cracking deal. So they lost a few dudes and dudettes here and there, its not like they are going to drop off the charts right away. These things happen. Microsoft loses people all the time, most of them to Google ;) but it just replaces them with newer and better versions

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I this day and age, where most of the websites do not even consider letting themselves display on Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4 for that matter, there are still people who use these browsers. Why I ask? why?I know the default answer: because they have old computers and they don't want to upgrade, but come on, how can you even see anything on the web with those browsers.COME ON PEOPLE upgrade

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