1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: ResellerRatings.com, American Canyon, California

Today’s special Deal Radar returns to ResellerRatings.com, a company I covered in a 2008 interview with its founder, Scott Wainner. American Canyon, California-based ResellerRatings.com is a platform for consumer ratings and reviews of online retailers. It features 430,000 reviews of 24,000 retailers, and its reviews are syndicated to Google Product Search, Bing Shopping, Google AdWords

Read Full Article »

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: “Bootstrapping” In Tune With The Times

Francine Hardaway has a great review of EJ2 over at FastCompany. She writes, “Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the second volume of Entrepreneurs Journeys, her

Read Full Article »

Book Reviews: Travel To The Land Of Innovation

Here’s some book-related coverage that readers may find interesting… First, Amazon Customer Reviews. We need more reader reviews for sure, so if you’ve been reading the book, please consider writing a review.

Deal Radar 2008: TopTenREVIEWS.com

Utah-based TopTenREVIEWS.com is a technology-focused product review site. Founded in January 2003 by Jerry Ropelato, the company began as a website to help parents find web filtering software to protect their children online. TopTenREVIEWS soon expanded its review categories to include unbiased product information and product research, thereby attracting the average consumer. In 2006, TopTenREVIEWS

Read Full Article »

Deal Radar 2008: Retrevo

For the moment, this will be my last Vertical Search Engine on the deal radar, while we turn the spotlight onto other segments. We have discussed TheFind and Wize. Today we will take a look at Retrevo, another shopping search engine. We had profiled Vipin Jain, CEO Retrevo last year. Retrevo is a product review

Read Full Article »

Deal Radar 2008: Wize Ranks Products

We profiled Tom Patterson, CEO of Wize.com last year. The site compiles both expert and user reviews and inserts them into a scoring algorithm to rank products. The site’s proprietary WizeRank gives each product a 1 – 100 score, utilizing collective wisdom ferreted from all over the web.

User Generated Reviews

Check out Yelp Mobile. In the growing trend of User Generated content, the Review market is one that many are eyeing. Yahoo has had movie reviews for a long time. Google is starting to pull in Yelp type reviews into their Google Local site. Now, Palm has done a deal with Yelp to put them

Read Full Article »