Is BorrowMe dead?

The website’s still up, I can still log in, but I haven’t heard anything from it in a very long while. The last entry in their beta blog is from August! Have they flopped? Been acquired?

That would be the only way for them to survive, I think. Getting bought by MySpace, Facebook or some other big social network. Building a big network on your own these days isn’t so easy anymore, and they could have their idea implemented as another feature in an already-existing social site.

Now did the fact that it was such a purpose-focused network help it not grow? There are some pretty large network built around specific interests, like photos, video, even comic books. Why not stuff-sharing?

Wiki 2.0

Since we’re 2.0-ing everything that comes out a bit different than the usual, welcome Wiki 2.0! It’s a product called WetPaint that apparently hosts your wiki on their server and is going to run advertisements on the pages.

The interface seems real nice and easy and there’s a tour to show you around. I’ll take some time to explore it more soon. This is a reminder post. Just can’t figure out what to build a Wiki about though. Any ideas?

Tip by TechCrunch.

Web2.0 Startup Name Frenzy

Since I first began reading stuff on Web2.0 a few weeks ago (it all started with John Battelle’s Searchblog), I have been so flooded by so many names of ever-popping startups or “already” beta web applications pointed to by the handful of TechCrunches, Web 2.0 Blogs and other big shot bloggers out there that it’s been really hard to keep up with all of them.

I find myself frequently going back to a site a good five or six times before I finally stop asking myself at each post I read “what the heck was that just-mentioned site all about again??”

This constant re-checking of links takes a considerable amount of time off my feed reading, which has, by the way, become increasingly difficult to do with Google Reader. But that’s another topic.