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Google Investors Find New Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the checking-the-future dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Not so unique... by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't this describe cafepress?

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

  2. Names by MrNonchalant · · Score: 4, Funny

    First Google.

    Now Zazzle.

    What next? Gejujwh[NO CARRIER]

    1. Re:Names by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > First Google.
      > Now Zazzle.
      > What next? Gejujwh[NO CARRIER]

      Fizzle.

  3. Awesome! by Jakeypants · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Awesome! by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

      --

      Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.