Re: Guha resurfaces: epinions

Mike Masnick (mike@techdirt.com)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:31:56 -0700


At 06:02 PM 8/11/99 -0400, Robert S. Thau wrote:

>This has a great deal more in common with, say, Phil Greenspun's photo.net
>(which has photography product reviews, among much other photo-related
>content), or even, say, zagat.com, than Slashdot --- and even more in
>common with deja.com's Deja Ratings (which is the only example I know of
>off the top of my head of an attempt at a collaborative product review
>site with coverage as broad as what epinions seems to be going for).

Other ones off the top of my head:

http://www.consumerreview.com/
and
http://www.publicopinion.com/

I am sure there are some more, but those are the ones I've seen recently.

-Mike

PS I think Mark was talking about the general "rating system" when he was
using Slashdot as an example, such as how they rate all the different
comments and such, but I could be totally wrong, and Mark can speak for
himself.