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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Zipidee bills themselves as “the internet’s largest (emphasis mine) marketplace for buying and selling digital goods online.”

The only problem is that it’s “beta” and not yet accessible to the public! I’m sure it’s bigger than say, iTunes’ 3 billions songs sold. Or ebay’s sales of digital items.

My question is: do consumers need a separate site to sell digital goods? Granted, this company claims to add DRM to items it sells, which is wildly popular with consumers. But besides creating additional restrictions for buyers, what’s the value prop?

I’m confused.

Teach The People was included in one of the TechCrunch 40. From their site: “Teach The PeopleSM is the world’s first social community and content networking service equipped with tools and features for the flexible sharing of knowledge!

Instead of just messaging with other users like on traditional social networking services, users on Teach The PeopleSM
are creating their own communities for fun, education, innovation; whatever! User can then fill those communities
with as much content & media as they desire:

Documents, Images, Videos, AUDIO, Blogs, Discussion Boards, Chat Sessions, Broadcasts…

…you name it.”

Now, read About.com’s About Us copy: Exclusive to About.com, over 600 expert “Guides” steer About.com’s content - sharing their passions, expertise and how-to information with visitors every day. The result is a vast information “bank” that couples the breadth and reach of large content providers such as AOL and MSN with the depth of consumer-focused sites like CNET and WebMD.

Sound kinda similar? But About.com was started in 1996, almost 12 freakin’ years ago.

All I’m sayin’ is Whatev.

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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.

Apparently, Multiply has been around for a long time, but the social network hasn’t really taken off. I hadn’t heard of it, but I guess that doesn’t mean too much. They just picked up $16.6MM from VantagePoint Venture Partners et al, presumably because they…well, I guess they believe they still have a chance.

Or maybe they just need some more cash to execute their strategy to target the Philippines and Indonesia. Apparently, they’re in the top 10 sites in both locations, says TechCrunch.

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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.