Google Investors Find New Project

Greg Linden writes:"According to ZDNet, the investors behind Google are at it again. John Doerr and Ram Shriram are investing in Zazzle, a company targeting mass customization by allowing shoppers and store owners to create individually tailored clothes, prints, and other items. For example, customers can choose an image from a large image library, design a T-shirt using the image with online tools, and then have the T-shirt delivered to them. Lands' End, CafePress, and other online clothing stores offer similar mass customization services on a small scale, but Doerr clearly believes that there is a substantial opportunity 'for every individual who wants to create products that are as unique as they are.'"

Comments

Already trademarked?

[Afecks]

Won't they have trademark issues with Zazzle.com?

Re:Not so unique...

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

Doesn't this describe cafepress?

Maybe in a general sort of way, but more specifically it describes the 1990s.

-le is to venture capitalists...

[lxt]

...as e- & i- are to Apple :)

Names

[MrNonchalant]

First Google.

Now Zazzle.

What next? Gejujwh[NO CARRIER]

Re:Names

[Tackhead]

> First Google.
> Now Zazzle.
> What next? Gejujwh[NO CARRIER]

Fizzle.

Re:Names

[Enigma_Man]

I'm thinking Whibble, or Boffle.

A unique online shopping experience....

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

Wow, I can't wait. I soooo love to shop online.

Land of the free

[hhg]

Didn't Amazon already patent e-shopping? By the way, didn't Amazon also patent "Land of the free"?

Re:Not so unique...

[surprise_audit]

Only if CafePress also allows you to custmomizer your online experience... I wonder if Zazzle has trademarked that word yet??

New success formula for web sites...

[Anonymous Coward]

Name them...

[constanant][vowel][double constanant]le

I think Snoop Dog had prior art years ago, fo' shizzle.

Nope.

[SamMichaels]

fhqwhgads.+++ATH0

OK

Well....

[DietCoke]

Last time I checked it stood for "testing to see if any mods are awake behind the wheel"...

At least we got the results in quickly.

Fully Customize?

[Anonymous Coward]

does that mean that I can have naked Swedish girls give me a massage during my online experience, or does fully customize mean, not really "fully" customizeable. We just allow you to set some preferences around..

Re:press release spam

[paranode]

Still mad that you didn't invest in Google, huh?

Awesome!

[Jakeypants]

I can't wait to customizer my Zazzle!

I'd also appreciate being able to conflaggle my blunker, but I'll take what I can get.

Re:Awesome!

[The-Bus]

If anything, I think the idiots that created (and popularized) the words "blog" (webpage) and "podcast" (audio) are now going to turn to "zazzling" everything when it just means customize. Like, the entire blogosphere needs to know about this product. Zazzle your logos for your podcast on a shirt! Let other bloggers further zazzle your zazzle!

Don't like the way your new Toyota Camry looks? There's plenty of aftermarket zazzlers which can zazzle-ify your car (or "blogmobile").

I pray this doesn't really happen.

Re:Clothing from the US?

[MikeXpop]

which is Sara Lee, one of the worst multinationals for fair trade and labor practices -- way worse than Nike

Hey buddy... Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.