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parkwhiz.com [web 2.0 review]

I recently sat through a presentation by Jon from datawhiz.com at the Hatchery event in NY. This is a well thought out concept and implementation of a system to allow parking garages and individuals to list their parking spots for rent for the day/evening.  Consider a concert is happening near by and there is a parking shortage, just go on this easy to use website and list your spot for rent. A site user can go on and search for parking near the zip code or address and the results will be shown in both a tabular and map format. You can also search within a time range and when the results are shown, filter by ‘Walking time to Destination’ and price.

Possible parking spots are highlighted on the map and you can pick and choose by locality and price to pick the one you want. There is also the concept of rating the parking vendors so that users will be informed about the past experiences at that location.

Overall, very cool site that I can see myself using when I go into NY for an event or concert. The site is easy to use with a Web 2.0 feel that will be embraced by those living in or near a big city.

datawhiz.com

gotjeela? rating: 3/5

neighborrow.com [web 2.0 review]

neighborrow.com is a site that allows users to offer up items that they would allow to be borrowed or traded and other users can search and connect with the lister. Items such as Movies, Music, Video Games and Books are able to be listed.

Here we show a snippet of what search results would look like. The status of the item (Available, Borrowed) is shown as well as the user who has listed the item. The site is currently in Alpha and when I searched for items in Boston or New York I did not get any results.

Overall I feel this is a good site that allows you to ‘reuse’ an item you no longer have a need for and let someone else benefit from it. There is a clean Web 2.0 look and feel and nice flow to the site, time will tell if it will pop but they are one of the 25 companies on the Spigit.com launch and this may help accelerate their growth.

neighborrow.com

gotjeela? rating: 3/5

vivapets.com [web 2.0 review]

Does your Dog need a MySpace page? Vivapets.com brings ‘Social Networking’ to the pet world…. There are clever widgets and web pages to create and configure a home page for your pet. There are classified ads for pets and pet related supplies and also the ability to list your company on their directory for pet related companies.

There are dedicated categories for the main types of pets, image galleries, forums and links to sites about pets/pet supplies. So if Fluffy or Rover are in need or showing off their latest pose or listing their top pet foods and favorite chew toy, sign up for an account at Vivapets and create a page for him or her.

This is a good example of social networking being applied to a niche market that will be very popular and solve a need. The site is easy to use and there seems to be a solid following.

vivapets.com

gotjeela? rating: 3/5

lingr.com [web 2.0 review]

 Lingr.com is a public (no account needed) chat website where users can chat about whatever and to whomever they want. The UI is of a web 2.0 flavor and performs very well in the chatroom I visited.

The site seems to be visited by many different countries as was evident in chatrooms where many different languages were present.

My overall impression was that this was definitely web 2.0 but nothing that was revolutionary. I feel there are several similar sites out there including campfire.com and zoho.com that offer the same if not better features.

Lingr has a few desktop tools (Lingr Radar and Lingr Notifier) available so you can stay in tune with what is going on in select chat rooms. These are nice to have but it was hard to determine how much they were used.

lingr.com

gotjeela? rating: 2/5