Comments on: iTaggit: Personal Asset Management

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Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:18:49 +0000

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By: eBay, ecommerce, life

eBay, ecommerce, life — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:50:47 +0000

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By: Austin Startup

Austin Startup — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:47:16 +0000

iTaggit Making News…

Austin-based iTaggit was featured last week in TechCrunch. iTaggit was founded by David Altounian, who also serves as the Company’s CEO. Previously Altounian was the founder and CTO of tablet computer maker Motion Computing, and an executive with Dell…

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:54:01 +0000

Lamest blog post ever. Did you just reprint their press release verbatim? Myles, I totally agree, some reporting would have helped here.

Sour grapes disclosure: I run a similar, better site called Squirl (http://squirl.info), which TechCrunch has long ignored

By: MyThings Tracks Your Things

MyThings Tracks Your Things — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:05:33 +0000

[...] reviewed iTaggit earlier this week; MyThings operates in the same space. Both provide personal asset management although MyThings is [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:22:58 +0000

Not a bad idea, though I have to agree that it is rather a niche.

By: Myles

Myles — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:24:38 +0000

Not sure why, Duncan, you didn’t recognize that there is a lot of activity in this particular space.

MyThings.com launched in the US in March — and provides a unique set of services that allow members to retrieve documentation for their things via channel partners, as well as help them understand and pin down actual monetary values for their belongings (via real humans!). MyThings also has integrated sell tools that enable folks to easily sell the things in their portfolios on Ebay, as well as find local spots to donate and/or give away their things to those less fortunate. And a whole lot more…

See for yourself: http://www.mythings.com

MyThings services are super-robust, yet no mention at all. Not even as a competitive service. Does TC do objective reporting? It’s really hard to tell nowadays.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:58:05 +0000

Will probably hang around making their owners ; (if they even own it anymore)

- a mediocre return ..

-RB

By: Nick Tan

Nick Tan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:48:42 +0000

This caters to the gatherer part of the hunter-gatherer DNA we carry, so it should do surprisingly well. Who would have thought eBay would take off? The Pez™ dispenser niche is tiny vertical sliver, but look at them now.

By: Amelia Earhole

Amelia Earhole — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:21:32 +0000

anyone else sick of tagging things?

Seems like every site I’m on these days I have to invest yet another month of tagging stuff…

By: Brian Moran

Brian Moran — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:40:31 +0000

If the hobby is a really esoteric one, could be a good way to manage the ‘estate of weird but valuable stuff’ issue — a boon to family and estate executors.

Also potentially helpful with ‘provenance’ for things that are new to being collected, like old computers. Who would know that you could find pieces of Apollo spacecraft computers in a basement in Harrisburg, PA (oops, looks like it’s moved to NJ)?

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:29:03 +0000

I think del.cio.us should have done something like this a long time ago.

By: Fat Free Milk

Fat Free Milk — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:26:54 +0000

I might actually use this - who woulda thunk it?

By: Fidel Guajardo

Fidel Guajardo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:58:55 +0000

You have previously covered this concept with MyColletibles from eBay and Kaboodle. There is also Zebo.com and MyThings.com. The New York Times also recently covered this concept in their article entitled “Got Roomfuls of Stuff? Now Site Will Help Keep Track of It” found at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04.....mp;emc=rss

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:53:58 +0000

This will be a killer app if they can develop a RFID tagging system to accompany the website. I’m thinking a USB based RFID detector system that triangulates the location of RFID tags in a 300ft radius and puts the location of all items tagged into a nice little map of your surroundings. That would certainly help me when I lose my wallet somewhere around the house on a daily basis! When they get that online, I’ll sign up!

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:32:43 +0000

AP
My PR background probably shows in that sentence.

By: Manson

Manson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:24:01 +0000

I don’t see this lasting, but it’s a clever idea.

By: Chandra Bajpai

Chandra Bajpai — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:19:32 +0000

I agree it’s a small vertical, which has some issues to revenue generation…will it generate enough pageviews to support itself? I see Amazon, eBay offers but am not sure you can get enough revenue traction from there. To suceed this site has to expand…by increasing marketsize (users) or adding some sort of fees. Honestly I think if you add fee’s, many collectors will just switch to excel (if your anal enough to catalog stuff). I collect vintage computers and I just can’t be bother cataloging what I have.

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By: Damn Mike and Duncan

Damn Mike and Duncan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:16:38 +0000

They all got addicted to startups. How many coffees or soda you have all day?

By: AP

AP — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:15:53 +0000

good concept.

” iTaggit aims to change the way people collect, organize, and enjoy their personal items and collections by providing a service to catalog collections online.” seems like a copy-and-paste from the elevator pitch.

By: SearchEngines Web

SearchEngines Web — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:07:05 +0000

This vertical sharing concept does have a great deal of potential - hope if catches on.