Teach The People — They Shoulda Made It The TechCrunch 39 Instead
Amazing, Awesome, humor, Genius, I just don't get it, Will never make money, Web 2.0, Service September 23rd, 2007
Teach The People was included in one of the TechCrunch 40. From their site: “Teach The PeopleSM is the world’s first social community and content networking service equipped with tools and features for the flexible sharing of knowledge!
Instead of just messaging with other users like on traditional social networking services, users on Teach The PeopleSM
are creating their own communities for fun, education, innovation; whatever! User can then fill those communities
with as much content & media as they desire:
Documents, Images, Videos, AUDIO, Blogs, Discussion Boards, Chat Sessions, Broadcasts…
…you name it.”
Now, read About.com’s About Us copy: Exclusive to About.com, over 600 expert “Guides” steer About.com’s content - sharing their passions, expertise and how-to information with visitors every day. The result is a vast information “bank” that couples the breadth and reach of large content providers such as AOL and MSN with the depth of consumer-focused sites like CNET and WebMD.
Sound kinda similar? But About.com was started in 1996, almost 12 freakin’ years ago.
All I’m sayin’ is Whatev.
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October 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
You haven’t even seen the site
You wrote a blog based on a landing page without seeing the goods. This is not about.com, this is an open educational platform that allows people to monetize their knowledge capital. Online education is an 80 billion dollar industry and is completely seperate from About.com style portals.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Teach the people and About don’t sound like the same thing… but any website with that many exclamation points on its front page I would tend to not believe.