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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

adperk.com [beyond web 2.0 review]

 Innovative, disruptive (in a good way of course), adperk.com is poised to make a big splash….

Concept: Users watch commercials from different categories and get free items in exchange for their time.

Reality:  Users watch commercials and get free magazines (There does not appear to be a large selection right now).

When more advertisers sign up and there are numerous commercials and in addition there is a greater variety of rewards, this site will make oodles of money.  It was clear and easy to use, it’s just a matter of adoption.

Users watch the short commercials and are forced to enter the word shown at the end of the video in order to earn credits. Credits can be used to earn magazines, but imagine earning ‘Sky Miles’ or coupons to use at a restaurant or 20 cents off at a gas station. The possibilities are endless.

adperk.com

gotjeela? rating: 4/5