| Consumer
Communities |
| Website |
Unique
Selling Proposition |
Launch
Date |
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- Visitors are encouraged
to contribute their own personal views and write about personal satisfactions
or dislikes.
- Sites aim:
To give future customers a preview of what they might expect shoudl
they decide to buy a certain product or use a certain company, or even
watch certain television shows or movies
|
1999 |
|
- Sites goal:
To provide "clear, concise instructions for (just about) everything."
- Offers staff-written, reviewed
and edited step-by-step solutions.
- Since March 2004 eHow traffic
has soared from 250,000 visitors per month to over 4 million visitors
per month.
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March, 1999
|
|
- Social Search --
enables members to find search results relevant to them, written by
people in their network whom they know.
- TrustScore -- evaluates
the quality and trustworthiness or reviews on site.
- Publish to Blog
-- Anyone with a TypePad blog can simultaneously publish a review to
the site and to their personal blog.
- Establishes an online community
where people share valuable, real-life information about the best and
worst services and products in their area.
|
(unknown) |
|
- Gives surfers the opportunity
to create a lens on a topic, idea, product or cause that helps
finders get unique, human perspectives instead of irrelevant search
results.
|
October,
2005 |
|
- Started by the same minds
behind "eHow," this collaborative writing project strives
to build the world's largest how-to manual.
- Works much like Wikipedia,
allowing visitors to either create a topic or edit/improve an existing
page.
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Janruary,
2005 |
|
- Features articles, online
courses, interactive quizzes, etc. written by paid, human "Guides"
covering around 500 topics (divided into channels).
|
1997
(Originally "The Mining Company")
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