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

GarageSalesNation was created to aggregate garage sale locations & information in a centralized site. No more aimless wondering looking for deal. The only problem is that everyone  already uses Craig’s List for this. And Craig’s List allows people to post for free.That said, it is nice to be able to see garage sale locations on a google map.  Data in Craig’s List often doesn’t easily facilitate this. From what I can tell, GSN doesn’t list any items for sale or prices–just the location and hours. To me that’s an obvious opportunity for improvement.Will this catch on? I kinda doubt it–CL is already a widely used and pretty decent tool.Rating: