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November 03, 2006
Wize.com is yet another example of how we're picking up the threads we've spun like cotton-candy twirlers who've had too much to drink. (Ah, metaphors!) It aggregates customer reviews of products from the multiple sites where they're written, and factors in professional reviews and "buzz" to come up with "wizerank," which I suppose they hope will become like Google's PageRank. The site usefully links you to all those reviews, so you can see what's up. I'm not entirely sure what "buzz" is, but here's the buzz for the Canon xt Eos 350: "Buzz: Strong. More reviews in the last 60 days than 95% of the 602 ranked Digital Cameras." It makes money by selling ads but promises that it's editorially independent. Note that this is not a site where you review products. Rather, it aggregates reviews from elsewhere, like a decentralized ePinions. I like the idea. Eventually I'd like to be able to pick out some people (such as my friends) as having special weight, but Wize's decentralization may make this difficult. But that's just my hobby horse... Squirl.info lets you organize your stuff into "collections," publish some or all of your collections, and meet people whose collections you like. It's free for the first 200 items and is $10/year for the next 4,800 items. The free version puts Google ads on the pages you see. [Tags: wize squirl everything_is_miscellaneous social_software ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at November 3, 2006 06:26 PM
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On metaphors...
Do you ever get the feeling that there are depths yet to be sounded?
Are mere metaphors too shallow these days? Ephemeral splashes in puddles of piffle?
Isn't there anything a little more advanced? A hypermetaphor perhaps?
I want more sophisticated literary devices!
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Posted by: 癌症治疗 | November 4, 2006 03:10 AM
演讲稿
Posted by: 广州在线 | November 4, 2006 03:10 AM
Something like this one I used in an earlier comment on this blog:
"Some marbled soviet floors in that plan methinks"
It suspects profligacy typical of central planning at the same time as it puns on the plan's viability, i.e. "flaws in that plan".
Funny thing is, the brain's neural associativity discovers these things - they're not really amenable to conscious manufacture.
Posted by: Crosbie Fitch | November 4, 2006 10:38 AM
Sounds a lot like Rotten Tomatoes which is an aggregator for movie reviews. I find such a thing useful, to be able to see what the consensus is, plus be able to access the specific positive and negative reviews.
Posted by: Mark Federman | November 4, 2006 12:50 PM
Lucas here from Wize. Thanks for the interest in our site. Buzz measures how often a product is reviewed compared to other products (the new iPod versus other MP3 players, for example). We’re looking to add some social functionality to the site in the future, so be sure to check back and let us know how we’re doing.
Posted by: lucas | November 7, 2006 03:17 PM
Wize provides a good list of links but I'm not sure if I can trust wizerank. How does they calculate it?
Usually, I'm using this site to read feedback and find ratings info: e.g. Canon Digital Rebel Feedback
There are a pretty large number of reviews for electronics.
Posted by: Robert Bain | April 3, 2007 08:51 AM