I had kind of a crappy day, but iPartee completely turned it around.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while!

What is IPartee?
In their own words, “IPartee is a place to find events and venues you and your friends want to attend. We let you plan, publish, promote and monetize your events for free.”

That got me chuckling, but I lost it at:

“What’s are the benefits of signing up?
What makes IPartee really useful is the ability to use it with your friends [emphasis mine]. By joining IPartee, you’ll be able to use features that help you plan events with friends, as well as post events, venues, polls, reviews and photos.”

I seriously want to invite all my friends, so I can use features! The part I’m most excited about is posting venues! It’s so funny…because I actually have a list of venues by my computer that I’ve been compiling over the past months, and just waiting for the right outlet! Now that I have iPartee, and I’m going to feel much more fulfilled!

iPartee made me so happy that I went to their careers section–I’d really enjoy a career at a place that makes me laugh every day. Alas, I got a “not found” error.

OK, OK–I’m being too harsh…I’m just jokin’ around…

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Frankly, my ideas haven’t been very good lately. I joined Bright Ideas Lab hoping to improve the quality. It’s going to work by doing the following:
> Letting me put all my ideas on the site!
> Letting me vote!
> Letting me discuss them!

I’ll let you know how it works!

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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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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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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.