Swaptree.com - a startup to easily trade or exchange of your music collection or book collection

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Swapit.com was a spectacular failure as well.

You can't just slap Web 2.0 branding on bubble 1.0 ideas and expect them to work. How long before we see collaborative filtering for online dog food purchases?

So was switchhouse. No one even bothers with physical media any more for music. Books and movies aren't far behind. Games are the only thing I can think of that might work and have some steam left in it.

Books and movies aren't that far behind, but they are behind. Here's a thought: a library where, to take out a book, you have to digitize part of the copy and give the result back to the library for publication to a website. Your allowed lending rate goes down if you do it badly. Add a mail-out option ala Netflix on that same website, and we're in business.

In the business of being sued?

oh. you mean like lala? oh wait. they had to change their business model because it doesn't work.

does seem like lala... and speaking of which, the screenshot on lala.com looks almost exactly like anywhere.fm

(confession: I have never used iTunes before)

They all look like iTunes now.

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