Ever wonder what happened to those dot com companies?  Well, most of them went bankrupt not because they sucked but mostly their technology was 10-15 years ahead of their time.  I bet WebVan would do well now, too bad they launched about 10 years early.

They were among the darlings of the first dot-com bubble: Boo, TheGlobe.com, Pets.com, Webvan, eToys, DrKoop.com, Garden.com, Kozmo, Excite@Home, and Entertaindom. Beginning in the mid 1990s, they traced a path of online innovation and IPO riches that lasted through the early part of the present decade. Billions were invested, from the biggest venture capitalist firms on Sand Hill Road down to small investors trying to latch onto the dot-com stock craze. Few of them got rich; most saw their stock and ownership stakes become nearly worthless after the bubble burst in 2000.

via thestandard

No More Notebooks, a social shopping bookmarking service was just launched.

Basically, it’s a social bookmarking service so you can make/save/share your favorite shopping list.

Although there’s already a big array of shopping social networks out there, (my favorite is wists) No More Notebooks might be able to be successful through it’s price comparisions and through more innovation.

There’s always plenty room for new sites especially at the rate the internet is growing today.

My name is Luke Harrison and I have recently finished my final year project for my New Media degree at The University of Leeds, UK.

For this I have created a brand new social networking website based around creating wishlists. The website has been built entirely from scratch single-handedly by me and I am now hoping to take it past a university stage and into the real world. I would therefore like to submit it to your startup review. There are still a huge number of features to be added over the next few weeks/months but I still feel the current product is something really useful to the online consumer.

via mashable