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

At least this one has–wait, it doesn’t have much that’s unique. I’m not even sure why they bothered. Yawn.Rating:

Your Hippocampus is the part of the brain that is important for learning and remembering things. MyHippocampus.com attempts to create a mind map which functions like an online web 2.0 hippocampus. The idea sounds cool, but when you see how they implemented it, it kinda makes you sick (literally, you may become sea sick!). It’s a giant ocean with a bunch of little islands, with each island representing a main thought or idea. You can zoom in on islands and they each host sub ideas and categories.
Pros:

1. They’ve implemented openid! THANK YOU!
2. Impressive Interface. Their interface is pretty sweet. You can zoom in with the scroll on your mouse and the AJAX is smooth. No flash here, some serious work went into this. I could never do anything like this.
3. Timelines. While they may be useless, they’re still cool.

Cons:

1. What’s the point? I mean, sure it’s cool to mindmap all your ideas but it is kind of pointless seeing how you would need to explore a hundred islands to put together a whole idea.
2. Crappy Interface. I know, I’m a hypocrite but seriously some parts of the interface could look better. Like the islands for example, jesus they looks horrible! Looks like a 2 year old scribbled in Flash Mspaint.
3. It takes forever to enter your data and if you’re not used to the interface, it takes even longer! Imagine entering every book you’ve read, every movie you’ve seen, and every city you’ve ever visited. Is it worth the pay off of a mind map and a couple timelines?

I leave you with some relevant links and a pretty funny quote from Jeff from MyHippocampus.com:

…we think it might be time for something that turns the focus away from the nameless hordes and back onto the user.

Links:
Four Starters Preview of MyHippocampus.com
MyHippoCampus 5 minutes Screencast Tour
MyHippoCampus.com Offical Website

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A common trend in sucky startups is making people pay for services that you can get for free elsewhere. This was also the problem with Keyfiler. PatentMonkey is a service that lets you search through US patents. They offer payed memberships that let you purchase PDF downloads and more features.
What I wanna know is, why would you pay for PatentMonkey when you can use Google Patents for free? Google Patents offer free PDF downloads and supports pictures too. Of course it’s free and since it’s google it automatically out-ranks PatentMonkey reputation-wise.
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Why does everybody LOVE twitter?! Give me a break! I’ve finally found somebody (James Thomas) at CenterNetworks, who hates twitter as much as me. His article goes on to talk about an alternative, Corel Wordperfect Lightning, but that’s not what I want to talk about.

The Reasons I Hate Twitter:

1. I don’t give a crap about what other people are doing. If you’re bored enough to go on twitter, then why would I care about your boring life?
2. Every other 2 posts are in another language. I don’t know what language it is, but I do know that 99% of the time I can’t read 65% of the text on Twitter.
3. The Cutesy layout. The layout is all “bubbly” and light-blue and it just makes me sick. If I didn’t know any better I would think I was signing up for Hello Kitty Online!
4. I can make it. This has got to be the simplest startup to write. I can do this in a day in PHP and MySQL.

I know Twitter isn’t anything new, but James’ article rekindled my hatred for Twitter once again and I had to share it.