Zipidee bills themselves as “the internet’s largest (emphasis mine) marketplace for buying and selling digital goods online.”

The only problem is that it’s “beta” and not yet accessible to the public! I’m sure it’s bigger than say, iTunes’ 3 billions songs sold. Or ebay’s sales of digital items.

My question is: do consumers need a separate site to sell digital goods? Granted, this company claims to add DRM to items it sells, which is wildly popular with consumers. But besides creating additional restrictions for buyers, what’s the value prop?

I’m confused.

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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 Get the Sucky Startups Dashboard Widget Here…

ly stupid!!!

YourGarageOnline.com made me smile today. It’s an entire site dedicated to storing your cars’ repair information. Many of us can barely file our repair receipts into a folder consistently. This site is hoping that instead of throwing your receipts in a folder, you’ll instead type all the information from your receipt into a website! hehe.

Even if there were more than seven people willing to do so, why not just put it in an excel doc? I wish I could see their business plan financials.I created a new category: humor.

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In response to my Texty post, a reader commented that I should add my own blog to this list. Because it’s not interesting and mean spirited. So, here you go…the suckiest one yet–suckystartups.com.

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