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.

Oddbark is like craig’s list, with some added bells and whistles. For one, it doesn’t look like the web circa 1937. But more importantly, you can phone in ads. And get txt messages when postings expire.

But that ain’t enough to convince people to move from trusty CL, unfortunately. In New York City, there were only two items for sale on the entire site. Needless to say, if I’m looking to buy or sell, this ain’t gonna be where I look. Sucky. ‘Cause the site’s actually better than Craig’s.

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ly stupid!!!

YourGarageOnline.com made me smile today. It’s an entire site dedicated to storing your cars’ repair information. Many of us can barely file our repair receipts into a folder consistently. This site is hoping that instead of throwing your receipts in a folder, you’ll instead type all the information from your receipt into a website! hehe.

Even if there were more than seven people willing to do so, why not just put it in an excel doc? I wish I could see their business plan financials.I created a new category: humor.

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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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The honor of the suckiest startup of the group, in my oh so humble opinion, goes to Drop Box. First of all, I have to say the ideas from Y Combinator’s demo days seemed more differentiated than TechStars’. I was actually excited about some of the ideas, assuming the execution lives up to the sound clip.But Drop Box is entering an important market that no one gives a crap about and no one spends money on. From MySpace onward (the online storage incarnation of the company)…there are zillions of players that all charge too much for backup. The “Time Machine”esque portions of the service seem cool enough, but I don’t think it’s going to overcome the fact that people ain’t gonna pay. So for that, they get my vote.