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Community/Opinion
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Deja.com
The site is something of a consumer free-for-all,
where people come to rate their favorite
things in countless categories, take polls,
and share opinions. It's a big and boisterous
community with plenty of commerce links,
so you can chat about Jodie Foster movies,
rate them, and then buy them easily. Like
epinions.com, the site is attempting to
capture word of mouth and "monetize"
it. So far it seems to be working.
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epinions.com
Nothing will inspire you to buy a particular
product, read a particular book, or see
a new movie faster than positive word
of mouth. So epinions.com wants to bring
word of mouth to the Web. The site collects
people's opinions about the things they
buy, and as you read them (and share your
own opinions), you flag the people and
the opinions that you find most useful.
Over time, you develop a circle of trusted
advisers, and in theory you'll value their
opinions more than the opinions of "strangers"
you find on other sites. Of course, such
a site can only work if it's chock-full
of advice, so epinions.com will pay you
between 1 and 3 cents per page view if
people read the reviews you write.
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RemarQ
RemarQ offers more than 30,000 discussion
forums that are easier to navigate and
search through than traditional newsgroups.
You can search for messages within a specific
forum, keep track of your favorite discussions
in a separate area within a forum (and
on your personalized home page), and find
the best discussions by taking advantage
of the site's four-star rating system.
You could spend every waking hour wading
through newsgroups. RemarQ makes it easier
to get to the good stuff fast.
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Topica
Often overlooked in the online discussion
and community hubbub are special-interest
mailing lists, which were actually one
of the Internet's first tools for letting
like-minded people communicate with each
other. Topica hasn't forgotten, and its
site gives you the tools you need to manage
your participation in several mailing
lists (there are more than 40,000 to choose
from) or to set up your own.
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XpertSite.com
Sites that offer experts who are willing
to answer your questions are popping up
all over the Web. At XpertSite.com, most
experts participate for love, not money.
They want to share what they know, build
reputations as experts (you can rate your
experiences with an expert), and maybe
drum up some business along the way. The
site tells you how long an expert usually
takes to answer a question and can even
tell how many questions an expert is currently
working on. Trying to figure out which
kind of pesticide to put on your rosebush
or how to stuff a turkey? Stop by here.
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