Review the Market

Spock.com is a search engine for finding people. Not just people that you know, but also people that anyone has ever known in the history of mankind. You can do these searches by name or by other keywords. These keywords can be anything that describes the person you are looking for, for example ‘president’. Once you have found your result, you can go and look at the main page for that result. Take a look at the page for George Washington, for example, which is arrived at clicking on the first result when you search for George Washington. On the other hand you could search for your friends or people you knew in the past.

One very interesting feature is the ability to embed widgets containing a particular search on Spock on your website. So for example, related to our example here’s a widget for US Presidents:

Spock allows you to tag search results (resulting in the ability to search by keywords rather than by name). Not only can you add tags to your own identity. You can add tags on other people as well, and vote on tags that already exist. And also, although they claim not to be a social network, they do allow you to add trust links between people you know; this allows your search results to be ranked by trust (where you will see your trusted people before you see non-trusted ones for a particular search).

Signing up is fairly quick and easy and as shown below, Spock allows you to pull in contacts from other networks you may be part of:

Step 3 allows you tell Spock a little bit about yourself and you are done. I have added myself to Spock already, and am going to recommend my friends to add themselves as well.

If you hate going to YouTube because of all the junk that is also there amongst the good stuff; if you like to watch music videos and are overall a music junkie; if you are all of the above, then this website review is for you.

Muvibee.com is a new service which is a music video search and aggregation tool. The service doesn’t host these music videos, but pulls them from other sources for your viewing pleasure.

What we enjoyed the most and the first is the functional user interface. As soon as you land on their homepage, you immediately see the top 10 videos from US, UK, and Germany. Most people just want to do that. In any case, we wanted to search for a particular video, so we added the song name to the search box and Voila! it came back VERY QUICKLY with a list of videos for our song. We never knew there were so many videos for our song.

Anyway, once inside the search results, you can quickly preview a snapshot from a video by hovering your mouse over it and start viewing it by clicking on the play button next to it. Once a video starts, for some reason it streams very quickly. Now, we know that they don’t host the videos, so we can’t explain how they get such a decent speed. But we are not complaining.

All this is good enough for this site to be highly recommended, however, this is only the beginning. You can create play lists, search for other top 10 charts, search in other lists, or search by genre (rock, pop, or dance). And you can do all this without even creating a login. There are supposed to be some more extended features once you login, but we were in a hurry to introduce this site to our readers, so we didn’t even bother to create that login.

Do let us know in comments what extra features are available if you create a login.

Here’s a review which is different from the usual theme of this website. This is a website which sells rugs; it’s called Superior Rugs. Superior Rugs is a website which claims to sell you good quality rugs at a good price (which means, a price which is not very expensive). They have warranties for 30 days and 60 days after that for manufacturing defects. Here are some of the good points we noticed with this online service:

• Free Shipping: they have free shipping for all their orders.
• How To Section: they have a detailed howto section which tells you about how to buy a rug, how to care for one, what are the different material that rugs are made of and what are the properties of each of these materials, etc.
• Help Desk: they also have a help desk area with a decent set of most common questions answered in detail.
• Search: there are many ways through which you can search for rugs: search by recommendations, search by shape, search by size, search by color, or search by catalog number (if you know it). This of course allows easy and quick navigation into the site and narrows down your search quickly.
• Variety: they offer a large variety of rugs. This ranges from Oriental to Modern; and from Wool to Silk; and a whole lot more in between.

And if you are really looking for a bargain then you can pick up some neat ones from their Clearance sales. Superior Rugs offers discounts up to 80% in these sales (so imagine buying a $1000 rug for just $200). And did I forgot to mention that once you have narrowed down your search to a particular area (say round area rugs), you can sort the results in the gallery by recommendations, quality, price, and value. So, if you are looking to decorate your house a little, you might want to pay them a visit.

We are really having fun with this new category of reviews: Quick review. We will continue to bring in snap shots of things available on the Internet. This one is for kitchen accessories such as salt shakers. The Online Discount Mart is a great place to save money when buying the essentials for your kitchen. It does offer a lot more than just kitchen accessories (such as decor, bath, and garden accessories), but we wanted to review the kitchen today. Other than the shakers, there are bottles, baskets, holders, racks, and many others. Time to stock your kitchen?

I get a lot of migraines from time to time. Sometimes they are so severe that my conscious brain stops functioning. So, it was nice to stumble upon this resource for the New York Headache Center for headache treatment. There are two things which are very useful on this site: they have a section called Educational Materials, and they have a blog.

Both list useful information about headaches and can come in very handy for people like me who suffer from them. Of course, if you are in New York, you may even want to visit the place, but I am not and so I have to make do with the online resources. And this is a nice resource.

The guys at PCM Telecom, a well known supplier of BT Phones, have made a complete revamp and redesign of their website, and via ReviewMe we are keen to have a look and check out what new features they have included on it.

Landing on the home page and starting to search for a new phone is as easy as scrolling down the screen, for that they have listed on a series of 15 items per page, the latest models of BT phones available in the market  ( you can choose to display 15, 25, or 30 so to go quicker in your product scanning ). If you budget is what matters here, well, then just sort them out by price, which is what I have done to find out a new but not to expensive phone to replace mine.

Every item has its description page, which is basic to know what you are buying, but as I am not simply convinced for the technical description, I always search on the net for product reviews. It happens that they have a page on their site just for that, although it was not clear to me if they are done by actually customers or by experts  ( some are very simple, some are more detailed).

Anyhow, their stock it is not just limited to phones and the shop has several other telecom categories you can browse: from bluetooth devices, to fax machines or VoIp products. I would say that the new design will fit pretty much the needs of every customer looking for clear info about products before we decide on purchasing anything.

Almost time for lunch! Do you know what to cook today? If you are like me, having difficulties to change the home daily menu, the website we have just discovered may help us quite a lot! :).

I am talking about CookingSpot, a website where you will find thousands of free recipes for everyone in every single cooking style I could think of. 

The nice thing about it is that you can search easily the recipe you may like for today with just clicking a couple of links: feeling like some japanese sushi? just go to the Asian category, what about some hot and spicy food, head to Mexican cuisine…. I am pretty sure we can cook everyday something different without repiting a single recipe…. oh gosh, I am so hungry now!