I waited for almost 10 minutes before writing this short post but I couldn’t find any arguments counter to my flash gut feel that said "So what?" after watching gdgt.com intro video featuring Veronica Belmont.

Silicon Alley Insider has reported a traffic lock-down in this new start-up a short time ago.

I think I was never this sharp in any of my comments, so this is a new benchmark. I see no future at all for gdgt.com. This is one of those websites that people interact for a while and then say "So what I am doing here? What will I get from this site". People can argue that there are lots of theme-based social avenues such as flixster or shelfari. But their themes are in fact filled with value. I guess the key point is the exhausting number of items in each theme (thousands of movies, millions of books, etc.) but gadgets are different. Two key questions make me absolutely pessimistic about building a social wrap around gadgets:

  1. Is there a long-tail for gadgets?
  2. Even if there is, what is the problem of millions of product reviews that are already sitting in the cloud?

I wish there was a way to short start-up stocks…