Mash is shutting down. What a bummer! It was such a differentiated and unique social networking service. And it was so young–not even out of private beta with limited “invite only” accounts! What is Yahoo thinking?!?!?

OOBING: Get featured on Sucky Startups in four easy steps!

Silly web 2.0 made-up name

“Beta” for no reason whatsoever

“Social Network”

Undifferentiated. Won’t make money in a million years.

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It’s a novel concept–renting books online “like NetFlix.”

How much does one pay for the privilege of reading used books with others’ greasy fingerprints?

The cheapest plan starts at $20 per month!!! Hehe…The “recommended best value plan” is $36/month.

BookSwim has stated its goal is to rent 1,000,000 books by 2010! I’ll be very very impressed if they make it with a zero or two chopped off.
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Wow! This is one of the ugliest pages I’ve seen in a while. Reminds me of the first web page I created in 1995. Doesn’t make me want to entrust my website to their site builder–that’s for sure!

I guess it is free. And the underlying templates aren’t insanely bad. But you have to admit that the homepage that sells the service is hilarious! I predict that in about 3 years, this “vintage” look and feel will be all the rage. Let’s just hope these guys last long enough to capitalize on the vintage web bandwagon.

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UPDATE: As Eric & Zahasman point out in the comments, it looks like the CSS wasn’t loading correctly when I took the screenshots. I hit reload a few times, but it still looked the same. I’ll have to give it another shot one of these days.
 

Fichey takes screenshots of popular websites and lets users browse the screenshots. While the service is pointless, the eye candy animation of the screenshots is quite elegant.

But it’s still stupid! Who the hell wants to look at static screenshots of websites? Isn’t the whole point of the web to be dynamic?

I sure hope they don’t plan to make any money.

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It’s been a while since we wrote about Truemors. Truemors keeps getting spammier and spammier. Looks like Guy should have saved his $12K.