Comments on: ProductWiki’s Formula For Unbiased Reviews

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Blog.MadWhips.com » Blog Archive » ProductWiki Featured on TechCrunch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:16:03 +0000

[...] Congratulations (to both) it’s about time ProductWiki finally got featured on TechCrunch in an article by Erick Schonfeld titled: ProductWiki’s Formula For Unbiased Reviews. [...]

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stage 3 breast cancer — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:38:01 +0000

Not bad but nothing much new

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pregnancy discrimination — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:01:02 +0000

Don’t see much new here.

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By: prejudice and discrimination

prejudice and discrimination — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:52:05 +0000

By definition, “review” is not unbiased.

By: aloo

aloo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:01:26 +0000

Shopwiki? Seriously, shopwiki? I don’t even think you can compare the two sites. ProductWiki contains unbiased content in a structured form. Since this information is structured, the data on PW is far more useful. Imagine being able to create a true product graph where not only are you looking at goods that are competitors, but those that play nice with each other. Imagine where you could evaluate (including reading reviews) among 100 different products in minutes because you can filter/sort/etc. based on the content of user reviews. This is a great start, I hope you get there PW, you are well on your way.

By: Captain Canuck

Captain Canuck — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:00:58 +0000

@NicolasV

It is true that you need bias to write a review…bias what forms an opinion. By “unbiased”, I mean not directly influenced by a company or used as a platform for advertising a product. Users create the review based upon their personal opionions and personal bias towards the product they are reviewing.

By: euk

euk — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:30:42 +0000

Congrats Productwiki !

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:39:07 +0000

epinions.com
and
shopwiki.com

do the exact same thing. This site has nothing new, its just more of the same

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:35:55 +0000

Lame application. No wonder it has done little in over 2 years. I would never use this site to evaluate anything.

By: WhipDaddy

WhipDaddy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:24:58 +0000

Wow I can’t believe it ONLY took TechCrunch 2 years to finally wake up and review ProductWiki.com!

I guess congratulations are in order for both TC and PW!

If you actually take the time to check the full workings/offerings of the site, you’ll quickly conclude that not only is it a great website, with a great mission and 3 very talented Engineers, but the system it runs on is also wicked awesome!

By: rj

rj — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:16:46 +0000

definitely a cool product!

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:15:54 +0000

All of them are stupid and primitive!
sheesh
Only a Mac using itard would be impressed!

By: WinAndFun

WinAndFun — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:05:59 +0000

Very nice idea…

By: NicolasV

NicolasV — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:31:19 +0000

Isn’t “unbiased reviews” an oxymoron?

Actually, wikipedia does not offer reviews for that very reason: because reviews are by nature personal, therefore biased – to quote them:
“Neutral point of view is a fundamental Wikipedia principle. NPOV is absolute and non-negotiable”. Neutrality is achieved by listing only verifiable facts, not by aggregating several points of view.

I run http://www.iterating.com, a wiki-based software guide. We use the wiki approach, but only for our facts; reviews are attributed to their authors.

By: fotos

fotos — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:19:09 +0000

This is very cool!!! i like this e-books

By: Captain Canuck

Captain Canuck — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:03:56 +0000

ProductWiki is by far the best unbiased product review site on the internet. Easy to use and tons of great reviews. Also a great place to go to get gift ideas….particularly if you are looking for something for someone who has a favourite list posted on the site.

kudos…keep up the awesome work!
CC

By: Nader

Nader — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:29:22 +0000

Cool!

By: Yannick Desjardins

Yannick Desjardins — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:21:47 +0000

Spent a few hours on this site and I fell in love.