Adobe just announced Photoshop Express. Well I guess they announced it a while back, but they just previewed it. What’s the point?

To me, traditional desktop software for desktop tasks works great. Desktop software for things like spreadsheets and photo editing is better.

Scribd is out there talking about how many “words” they have on their site from about 200K user-uploaded documents (much of which is copyrighted, I might add).

Here’s what I don’t get: of everything I saw on the Scribd, nothing required being in a document per se. In my exploration of the site, I found guides for this or that, top 10 lists, screenplays, etc. All of these things could (and I’m sure do) exist as web pages. And there’s this company called “Google” which helps people find web pages (and documents for that matter) over the web.

These guys are trying to be the of documents? I’m not sure there’s a need. Maybe they’ll be the Pets.com of documents.

TechStars demo days yielded some decent ideas. I’m not sure that MadKast is one of them (though I heard they were the first to launch). Here’s why I don’t see much of a use…it ain’t all that hard to send a link via email. It would require high penetration for it to become the standard way to share links/blog posts via this widget. But if the existing solution (email) isn’t very broken, I’m not sure what kind of penetration to expect. Furthermore, I don’t see a clear business model.

Maybe I just don’t get it. It wouldn’t be the first time. I tried to put it on this blog, but I don’t think it was working properly.

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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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There’s so much hype that people are selling invites on ebay?!?!! How silly is that?Their claim to fame is that you can sign up your friends and send them files? There’s buzz about that? I’m going to sell invites to this revolutionary thing called email and IM. I’m selling them for $10. Let me know if you’d like to sign up. It’s going to be huge!!!!

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