mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 19 2008 | seattle, reviews, judys book, yelp
Another approach to the local review services - non-profit "Consumers' Checkbook" sells a magazing subscription with peer reviews on home services for various local markets (including Seattle).
They charge $30 for a two year subscription, which gives you a quarterly(?) magazine sent to your home, and access to the online site.
But they forgo all SEO opportunities putting their site behind a subscriber-only firewall. Seems like a dumb idea to me.
Quoted: Reports on over 3,800 Puget Sound area firms, compiled from 180,000 consumer ratings.
Quoted: This nonprofit website rates local service firms and provides unbiased consumer ratings and information on local auto repair shops, home repair services, health care providers, and more.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 19 2008 | drupal, modules, reviews, ratings
Drupal.org does not contain much in the way of ranking and rating the quality of the contributed modules. So this site was created to give you an idea of the best modules to use for your Drupal web site.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2007 | technology, reviews, video
Humerous and interesting technology product reviews from the New York Times' David Pogue. I get his videos downloaded to my Tivo each week.
Quoted: Welcome to the web's richest resource about New York Times technology columnist, Missing Manual publisher, and Emmy-winning CBS news correspondent, David Pogue.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 24 2007 | blogs, reviews, web 2.0, startups
Reviews of internet startups.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2007 | start page, home page, web 2.0, reviews
Really thoughtful review of "Start Pages" (or personalized home pages). Contenders and ratings:
NetVibes: A
Google Homepage: B
Pageflakes: B-
Windows Live: C-
My Yahoo: DQuoted: Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2007 | blue dot, reviews
People are liking Blue Dot Buzz in StumbleUpon.
Quoted: StumbleUpon is the best way to discover great web sites, videos, photos, blogs and more. Channel surf the internet and get personalized recommendations according to your interests. Keep an online history of your Stumbles, and rate, review and share all the cool things you find.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 03 2007 | start page, portal, web 2.0, reviews
No clear winner here.
Quoted: The ideal start page for web work would let you see the status of your workday at a glance–what emails have come in, what’s on your to do list, what articles from RSS feeds you need to read, what your contacts are up to, and what’s on your calendar.
The ideal start page would show all this in an integrated and information-rich way such that even graphical guru Edward Tufte couldn’t criticize it.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2006 | web 2.0, reviews
Bookmarking not even making it as a category.
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- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2006 | video, reviews, nike+
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2006 | electronics, gadgets, reviews, video
Quoted: The latest gadgets, consumer electronic goodies and loads more tested.
