BzzyBee snitches on classmates so you don't have to

In school, were you forced to work on group projects — alone — while your classmates lounged around the Nintendo? Too ashamed to rat them out, did you let them take credit for your work? Well, San Jose startup BzzyBee wants to do the tattling for you. It has developed a collaborative Web work environment, a la 37Signal's Basecamp, aimed at educators and students. While it has a few helpful tools, like automatic citation of Web sources, it also is looking to disrupt school's social order. This is, in a word, awful, and must be stopped. More »