Coming Soon

Having reviewed oddball sites, well-known sites, and obscure Squidoo lenses, I thought I might try reviewing business sites. I am starting an innovative business or two and I will report the ones that turn me down.

Here is my expectation: American venture capital is not interested in funding anything other than Rust Belt fossils and dinosaurs. Years ago, I was talking up electric vehicles and everyone looked at me as if I had three heads. Now everyone at the "cutting edge" is doing something regarding electric vehicles. China has passed the USA is such research. China has passed the USA is wind power installation. The USA let a major solar company and a major wind power company move to Europe. Why even waste time with the USA anymore. I am still the actual cutting edge but I am not stupid enough to put blueprints on this blog. However, I am quite willing to expose the morons who give bonuses to executives who deliberately ram companies into the ground. Isn't a bonus supposed to be conditional and given only for extraordinary good performance? And not automatically given to all executives for being white or male or gentile or from a certain prep school or in a specific age range or some irrelevant criteria? Too bad if you save the company and happen to be female or a member of a minority or Jewish or went to an American public school or are too old or too young.

Will my low expectations of the American investment community be met? Will I be pleasantly surprised? Or will it be worse than I imagined?

Stay tuned.

First stop, AIG. To some the letters stand for Arrogant, Incompetent and Greedy. To others, the I in AIG stands for Immoral. To still others, the I stands for Irrational. And the I means Ignorant to other people.

Whatever your analysis, the government stole from the poor taxpayers and gave to the rich -- as government always does. As it did with all the other bail-outs and corporate welfare. The name is supposed to change and the company is selling off subsidiaries to pay down debt.

Visit the wonderful people of AIG at --

http://www.aigcorporate.com/index.html

postscript - I did not ask for money. They are an insurance outfit. (Although insurance companies do invest in things)

Xanga

It's a blog, and it's also a social networking site. You have to invest time in this site.

There is a learning curve for navigating this site. I saw some types of groupsI have seen no where else on the web. This fact alone keeps me from canceling my account though my experience at Xanga has been a dud.

Xanga --

http://www.xanga.com/

Wink

Wink allows you to find people all over the world with almost any interest. Problem is, everytime I send a friend request, the site says they'll get my message when they join Wink.

Wink lists people from other social networks. I might as well join those other networks (and I have).

Frustrating site. If you could reach the people you want to reach on either business or pleasure, Wink might have something really great.

Wink --

http://wink.com/

tagfoot

tagfoot is more bookmarking and linking than social network. I am not much of a bookmarker but I found certain of its other features really useful.



Unlike other sites recently reviewed which take weeks or months to really start to gel (gain friends, get hits, get read, or whatever is your yardstick for measuring usefulness), tagfoot was useful and got results for me from day one. I was amazed.



Also, they assign an online mentor under the buddy-system to help you get your feet wet. If I have any problems at or with tagfoot, then it is entirely my fault. The people behind this site are great and I have no negative criticism of them whatsoever.



There is no but nor other shoe to drop.



Positive review all the way around.



tagfoot --



http://tagfoot.com/home

Plurk

Easy sing-up. If you haven't already guessed, it is another social network.


Disturbingly like Dipity. Dipity tracks everything you do on the web. While that does not disturb most people, I am not most people. If you value your privacy, you might want to avoid this site. I saw my location displayed on the screen. Shades of Minority Report, Big Brother (the George Orwell novel not the stupid TV show), and Enemy of the State.

I will have to re-review Plurk in the future because I have not used it long enough to give it a fair shake. That's all for now.



Plurk --



http://www.plurk.com/

Thanksgiving

If you want some meaning to your holiday, you could do worse than visit Thanks-Giving Square. The site however is marred by paying homage to the b*stard who pardoned Richard Nixon, the man who swore in CFR and other secret speeches to abolish the Constitution. During the Watergate investigation it was discovered that the crook nicknamed Tricky Dick nearly did kill the Bill of Rights. In case you are a diehard Nixon supporter, at least now you have a clue as to why the rest of us despise the man and why his own congregation excommunicated him (Quakers no less). We can be thankful this day that we don't have Nixon to kick around anymore. We can move on to the Antichrist Ronald Wilson Reagan (6 letters, 6 letters, 6 letters) and his divorced Scarlet Woman Nancy Reagan (practiced astrology and other occult things). Did you know he started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi to appeal to the Ku Klux Klan? (so that's why black people don't like him!). Or to the worst president in human history (down there with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao in terms of bankrupting a once-rich nation) George Walker Bush Jr. Does Bush Jr count as six letters? Or the president who made sex sexy. Bill. Or president Robin Hood who steals from the poor to give to the rich. Dubya did this to excess but we expected better from Obama before he installed two of the crooks who caused this mess Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner.

Do you see why I hate politics? And why I am thankful this Thanksgiving that "The People" are raising people like Sarah Palin to lead them over a cliff. She denies climate change while glaciers are melting in her own state and Alaska residents on the Arctic Ocean coast are seeing their villages washed out to sea and permafrost is melting. What planet is this woman from?

Oh yeah, before I started ranting and my editor hosed me down with ice water (from Alaska) to cool off my unreasonable hot head, I was supposed to be reviewing Thanks-Giving Square. I'm still not sure how letting US Presidents and Wall Street executives off scot-free while giving a poor man a life sentence for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family constitutes "healing our wounded nation" but it's yet another double standard.

Thanks-Giving Square

http://www.thanksgiving.org/

If you are a Republican and prefer something more commercial this holiday (and why not, Republicans worship money), this next site may be more to your liking. It has a nice photo but it is pure links.

So here is the link for Thanksgiving, the site for ALL your Thanksgiving needs. I need a million dollars. Can you provide that?

http://www.thanksgiving.com/

If I seem cynical, then you must understand that I am practicing for the next holiday. Christmas. Bah humbug! We've all been screwed, I mean, Scrooged.

MySpace

MySpace, which has a reputation as a booty call and requires loads of time to customize with skins and other do-dads, has a younger demographic than Facebook. MySpace may have been overtaken my Facebook in sheer size (membership). But if its freedom you want, then MySpace is the place.

MySpace --

http://www.myspace.com/