Ning Stinks — any “platform” that enables people create social networks for people that have letter Z fetishes shouldn’t exist, in my oh so very humble opinion.

They’re all boasting that they have 115K social networks, but like 8 of them are mine and have 1 member. I know, I know–I’m sure the other 114, 992 rival Facebook and Myspace in their scale & usefulness.

Why not just create a group on a real social network? Why does everyone love it just ’cause it’s Marc, who created Netscape? Netscape isn’t cool–it was Mosaic that was cool. LoudCloud isn’t cool. Why would Ning be cool?I think I’m going to create a Marc Fan Club network on Ning.

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GetItNext is a whole site devoted to searching ebay. I tried it out and it does provide some decent search results. But nonetheless folks, a whole company around this?!?!

My favorite part is that they have multiple offices! “Headquartered in Canada, we have offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, New Jersey and New York.” I would guess there isn’t enough of a business model for an unemployed coder who built this in his bedroom–I can’t imagine what they are doing with FIVE OFFICES!!!

Maybe there’s something I don’t quite get. Maybe you’ll generate some nice returns if you invest now. It just so happens they are raising money.

“Dear Prospective Investor:
Let me invite you to join an exclusive group of individuals who have been caught up in the excitement of GetItNext. Currently, we are in the process of raising additional venture capital to finance the continued marketing and ongoing development of a new service that will revolutionize how people use the eBay marketplace.”

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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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In the case of iYomu, which is an iSocial Network for iGrownups, the iAnswer is neither.

My guess is that not too many grown ups are using the site’s tools–iYLocate, iYCommunity (which lets you find people with similar interests), or iYDNA (which seems to be a sorta personality test).

Look out Facebook! Linked In, you’re dead!

Maybe I’m wrong, and this is going to be the next big thing. But I’d be willing to bet a bit of money that it ain’t.

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TechCrunch says “Texty is a dead simple but useful new internet service that you can use to quickly create and edit content on a web page with zero HTML or programming skills.”

I say that it’s a waste of time. What’s the point?

The way it works is that you write your snippets at texty and then get an embed URL to paste in other webpages. Where ever that embed code is placed, the text (or content) snippet will show up.

Here’s why it’s pointless. If someone has an HTML page, they can just write the content directly in the page a hell of a lot easier than going to texty and then pasting embed code. If they have a blog, they already have WYSIWYG editing. Ditto on social networks.

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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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