AnimeCrazy is another great anime site which has compiled hundreds of full length anime episodes and movies for users to watch online, for free. You don’t even have to register to watch them. The media player is good and the videos download very quickly – they’re also very vivid and of a high-quality; especially when compared with other sites where it looks like they’ve been recorded using a camera phone.

Each show/movie has its own page with all the episodes listed. Most have two language options’; English and the native Japanese. Those with only Japanese have English subtitles.

The site is also packed full of user reviews such as the ones in the screenshot below. You have to be a member of the site to submit review. They’re generally a good indicator as to whether the show is good or not. The top ranking shows (out of a current 810) are listed on the homepage. Other sections of the site include images, forums and Asian drama shows.

Features:

• Watch high-quality anime episodes and movies online.
• Read and submit user reviews.
• Over 800 shows/films to choose from.
• Check out top ranked episodes.
• Includes section for Asian TV Dramas.
• For more sites to watch anime online see The Best Anime Sites On The Web.

Check out AnimeCrazy @ www.animecrazy.net (by Dean Sherwin from Art of Stinginess )

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• Watch-Movies: Watch Full-Length Movies Online
• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime
• ThePirateCity: Watch Movies Online
• SurfTheChannel: Movies, Shows, Anime and Documentaries
• QuickSilverScreen: Stream Movies, TV Channels, & TV Shows

The application works as your online notebook that keeps track of films you have seen and want to see. It even works with your mobile phone. This way anytime your friends recommend a new movie, you can immediately search for it using Partigi on your cellphone. The movie recommendations shown to you not only take your friends’ likes into account but also overall statistics of Partigi users.

Key Features:

• Free and easy to use.
• Keeps track of movies you have seen.
• Gives you recommendations you can count on.
• Allows you to create lists of movies to save time and look into it later.
• Save time by only catching the movie that you know you’ll like by finding out whether or not your friends liked it.
• You can connect your Partigi account with your Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and/or Twitter account and know your contacts’ likes/dislikes.
• Can use it with your cellphone.
• Similar tools: Collector.

Check out Partigi @ www.partigi.com

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• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• Criticker: Movie Suggestion Engine
• ClerkDogs: Get Movie Suggestions From Video Store Clerks

Clicking on a particular film title shows detailed breakdown of the score along with all the tweets (positive and negative) listed below. Useful.

Features:

• Twitter based movie reviews and ratings website.
• Search and browse alphabetically.
• Check out most popular movie titles.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar sites: SkinniPopcorn, Criticker, Filmaster, FilmSite, Nanocrowd and MRQE.

Check out TwitCritics @ www.twitcritics.com

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• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine
• MoviesPlanet: Find Free Full Length Movies To Watch Online

The site lets you search for a company by name, browse the companies with the best or worst customer service ratings and also read user comments.

If you would like to share some of your own experiences you may also submit your comments and ratings for any company.

Features:

• Customer service ratings for over 150 top US companies.
• Ratings are based on user feedback submitted online.
• Browse companies with the best and worst customer service.
• View customer hotline number for any listed company.
• View relevant company news.
• Boycott a particular company and all of its products.
• Rate and submit comments for any listed company, no registration needed.
• Similar sites ContactHelp and GetSatisfaction.

Check out Customer Service Scoreboard @ www.CustomerServiceScoreboard.com (via GeekSugar)

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• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics
• SueEasy: Join a Class Action Lawsuit Against Corporates

The site now has 35+ million reviews for over 55 thousand hotels in the United States. Users may browse hotel reviews by city, hotel name, zip code or a specific feature (i.e. romantic, 5 start, hotels with jacuzzi etc). For each hotel listing there are reviews (written by real guests), options to compare it with other hotels in the same city, pictures, list of nearby hotels, and price.

Features:

• Search 35+ million reviews for over 55 thousand hotels in US.
• Reviews are collected from sites like TripAdvisor, Expedia, Travelocity, MyTravelGuide etc., from individual blogs and other sources.
• Browse hotel reviews by city, hotel name or a zip code.
• Browse top rated hotels by location or by specific features (romantic hotels, 5 star hotels, hotels with jacuzzi etc).
• View hotel’s ranking within its city or its class (4 star, 5 star etc).
• Similar sites: HotelVideoReviews.

Check out Raveable @ www.raveable.com (via AppScout)

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• HotelVideoReviews: Hotel Video Reviews From Real Travelers
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• WhatsOnWhen: Local Event Guide For Over 500 World Destinations
• Voyij: Best Travel Offers and Deals For Any Destination
• UnusualHotelsOfTheWorld.com: Unusual Hotels Of The World

Obviously, it’s a place where you can get reviews on the products that interest you as well. Want to check out what others thought about that video game or movie it’s all on the website.

Features:

• Review various products across different categories.
• Read reviews for products that interest you.
• Quickly send a review via email.
• No need to sign up to email review.
• Subscribe to feeds of reviews in a particular category.

Check out RateItAll @ www.rateitall.com (via TechCrunch) (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers

Users can rate and write reviews about websites that they have personally used and browse websites reviews submitted by others. For easier navigation the reviews are nicely organized by topic, travel, health, music etc. The site also provides useful tips on detecting fraudulent sites and scams.

Features:

• View websites’ ratings and rate websites.
• Search reviews for a website or browse websites’ reviews by topic.
• Read user reviews and view ratings.
• Rate and leave website reviews using your Facebook credentials or sign up for a SiteJabber account.
• Useful tips and articles on detecting fraudulent sites and scams.
• Similar websites: RipOffReport and Hoax-Slayer.

Check out SiteJabber @ www.sitejabber.com

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• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics
• WarrantyElephant: Track Warranty Information for Your Gadgets
• RipOffReport: Report RipOff Companies

Features:

• Simple and easy to use movie reviews site.
• Mobile friendly interface.
• See short reviews from NY times and movie synopsis.
• Watch trailers and retweet the content.
• For more in depth movie reviews check: Criticker, Filmaster, FilmSite, Nanocrowd and MRQE.

Check out Skinnipopcorn @ www.skinnipopcorn.com [via ReadWriteWeb] (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine
• MoviesPlanet: Find Free Full Length Movies To Watch Online

HotelVideoReviews claims to be the largest hotel video review site in the world and works closely with travellers, travel companies and agencies to aggregate both positive and negative reviews of the hotels.

Start by searching for a destination. Then refine results by a hotel star rating (1 to 5), compare prices, watch video reviews, view hotel’s location on a Google map and see nearby hotels in the same city. If you liked a particular hotel you can book it right from the site.

Features:

• Watch video reviews of hotels worldwide including popular destinations in Europe and US.
• Video reviews are submitted by real travelers.
• Start by searching for a destination or browse hotels by city.
• Filter hotels by star rating.
• See hotel’s location on a map.
• Check nearby hotels in the same city.
• Option to book the hotel right from the website.
• Free, no sign up needed.

Check out HotelVideoReviews @ www.hotelvideoreviews.com

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• Raveable: Quick Hotel Rating and Review Summaries
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• WhatsOnWhen: Local Event Guide For Over 500 World Destinations
• Voyij: Best Travel Offers and Deals For Any Destination
• UnusualHotelsOfTheWorld.com: Unusual Hotels Of The World

You can start by rating the movies and after you’ve rated 10 movies, it starts recommending movies based on your taste. If you aren’t sure about a movie then you could log onto their forum and interact with other users to get your questions answered.

Features

• Film recommendation engine with community.
• Get movies recommended based on your taste of movies.
• Connect with people having a similar taste in movies.
• Has a thriving community with a forum.
• Also see a MakeUseOf article, What Movie Should I Watch Next?

Visit Criticker @ www.criticker.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews

Browse gadgets by category, by company or search using different keywords. You may also view the gadget information including its description, tech specs, user ratings, reviews and product images.

Sign up for an account to build your gadget list, write reviews, discuss your devices with other members and learn useful tips and tricks.

Features:

• Database of electronic gadgets: cell phones, PDAs, cameras, handhelds and more
• Products are reviewed, rated and edited by site users
• Browse gadget reviews, ratings and images
• View useful tips and tricks and get help from the community
• Sign up to build your gadget list, write review and discuss your devices with other members
• Similar sites Spectackler and ReviewGist.

Check out gdgt @ www.gdgt.com

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• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Venjuvo: Get Cash for Your Old Electronics and Gadgets
• TestFreaks: The only Gadget Review Website you’ll Ever Need
• TechSelector: Gadget Buying Guide

See Filmaster promo video:

Features :

• Social network for movie fans.
• Discuss your favorite movies and express your personal opinions.
• Get suggestions on movies.
• Discuss movies with people having similar taste to yours.
• Data presentation highly customizable.
• Similar site: FilmSite.

Check out Filmaster@www.filmaster.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine

Features:

• Ultimate movie resource for film buffs and regular movie lovers.
• Top movie lists – 100 Greatest Films, Top Films by decade, by US Box Office, according to AFI (American Film Institute), by genre and more
• Detailed film reviews and plot synopses
• Full Oscars coverage including history, award winners, mistakes and omissions
• Best film quotes (opening and closing lines, greatest film misquotes, top quotes collections)
• Best scenes (chases, crowds, disasters, deaths)

Check out FilmSite @ www.filmsite.org

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• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine

Avvo is an interactive portal where professional lawyers give you FREE personalized advice and answer your questions. In return, you rate the lawyer on how they did so other people know about them beforehand. You can also search and find lawyer ratings in your area, see their detailed profile including license information or any reported misconduct, and write a review if you have ever hired them.

Main features:

• Get free legal advice from professional lawyers.
• Free information guides about everyday legal issues.
• Search for lawyers by location, name or practice area.
• See detailed profile for each and every lawyer on Avvo.
• Rate the lawyers, endorse them and even write reviews.
• Go directly to the lawyer’s website or add them to your list.

Visit Avvo @ www.avvo.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• JDSupra: Online Database of Free Legal Documents Shared By Lawyers
• SueEasy: Join a Class Action Lawsuit Against Corporates
• MotorMouths: New Car Reviews And Ratings by Critics
• GetRidOfThings: Learn How To Get Rid Of Stuff
• Gazhoo: Sell & Buy Useful Documents Online

The aNobii is a book community that allows people to share their thoughts about books, read/write book reviews, lend books to each other and find similar books. It also provides people with an option to create personal online bookshelf for tracking books of interest but also let other people know what your taste is. If you like any of the 11 Million titles that aNobii catalogues, it doesn’t only provide you with all the details about the book but also gives you direct links to buy the book from Amazon or similar websites.

Main features of aNobii:

• Share your thoughts about millions of titles.
• Track a book, buy it, or add to your wish-list.
• Create a list of books you are interested in.
• See what other users are reading.
• Swap/trade books with other people.
• Set the status of each book as “Reading”, “Finished” or “Not Started”.
• Similar websites: BookBump and LibraryThing.

Check out aNobii @ www.anobii.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Shelfari
• OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs
• LibraryThing
• BookBump : Catalog Your Books
• BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes

If you are a writer, you can also sign up as an author to promote your book(s) to the community of book lovers and communicate with your fans.

Features:

• Book recommendation service and social network for book lovers.
• Discuss and rate books, read user reviews, build reading lists and get book recommendations from site members based on your previous preferences
• Search books by title, add books to your library, recommend books to others, create book groups and discuss in forums
• Browse most popular books and authors
• View book related videos (animations, author interviews, inside scoop etc)
• Read books in public domain for free online
• Buy the hard copy of the book from Amazon or the audio version from Audible.com
• Sign up to get your book recommendations.
• Other sites to get book recommendations: WhichBook and ThisOneNext.

Check out BookArmy @ www.bookarmy.com

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• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool
• ThisOneNext: Tells You What Book, CD or DVD To Get Next
• Tastekid: Get Recommendation For Movies, Music & Books
• BookSeer: Tells You What Book To Read Next
• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books

GoodGuide aims to change this by bringing information transparency to the products that we use. It provides a  comprehensive guide on more than 70,000 products with ratings, expert recommendations and advice. Using it you can find and compare healthy and green products that are safe for your children and family.

Browse products by their overall ratings or by their health, environmental and social impacts. View which products to avoid and which ones are safe.

Features:

• Find and compare products that are safe, green and healthy.
• Comprehensive guide of more than 70,000 products ratings.
• Browse products by their overall ratings and by their health, environmental and social performances
• Product information is collected from government data sources, academic institutions and non-government data sources
• Access GoodGuide product info from a cellphone by sending text messages or from your iPhone
• Free, no sign up needed. Register to save products in your shopping list.

Check out GoodGuide @ www.goodguide.com

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• WhatsOnMyFood: See What Pesticides are Used in Your Food
• TwoFoods: Compare Nutritional Values Of Common Foods
• StillTasty: Product Shelf Life Guide
• ShugarStacks: Check The Amount of Sugar in Foods
• NutritionToolbox: Food Nutritional Information Database

You can search the site by car model or browse reviews by make, style, score or MPG. Car reviews can be sorted by critic credibility, review date and score given to the vehicle. Sources for car reviews include Car & Driver, MotorAuthority.com, Road & Truck, Cars.com, Automobile magazine, automobile sections of New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others.

Features:

• Find published car reviews and rankings.
• See the average vehicle score given to a new car by car critics.
• Search for make/model or browse reviewed cars by make, style, score and MPG.
• Sort reviews by critic credibility, review date and score given to the vehicle.
• Reviews are aggregated from online car publications such as Car and Driver,  MotorAuthority, Road & Truck, Cars.com, Automobile magazine, automobile sections of New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others.
• Clean interface and easy navigation.
• No registration or email needed.
• Other sites for car reviews: CarZen and PriceHub.

Check out MotorMouths @ www.motormouths.com

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• Zapatag: Report Bad Drivers Online
• VehicleFixer: Car Repair Videos for Beginners
• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars
• Trapster: Get Alerted About Speed Traps On Your Way
• ServiceBeacon: Manage your Car’s Service Record Online

Product reviews are aggregated from sites like Amazon, Circuit City, Walmart, CNET and others.

To search for a products simply select a product you want, then pick the feature from the list and press Go. Wize will analyze thousands of reviews and display recommended products sorted by rating. You can also read user reviews, view the lowest price, compare online vendors and click to buy from the site.

Features:

• Find top recommended products depending on the features that are important to you.
• Product reviews are aggregated from sites like Amazon, Circuit City, Walmar, CNET and others.
• Over 19 million recommendations for more than 88,000 products.
• Read user reviews, see the lowest price, compare online vendors and click to buy from their site.
• Intuitive and clean interface.

Check out Wize @ www.wize.com

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• Spectackler: Compare Electronic Products Side-By-Side
• Shopnics: Compare Gadget Prices by Brand & Features
• MyThings: Free Online Purchase Receipt Organizer
• Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site
• Ztail : Find out How Much a Product is Worth

To get recommendations simply provide some details on how you intend to use the camera, the camera size and how much you are willing to spend on it. The site will then present with you a list of cameras selected by professionals. You can read reviews for each camera and also check reviews pulled from Amazon and other sites such as DPReview and CNET.

Moreover you can sort recommendations further by brand, price, size, color, type and image capture. BestInClass currently focuses only on digital cameras and has around 750 individual camera selections, with more being added weekly. Other consumer electronic products such as laptops and flat screen televisions will be added in near feature.

Features:

• Get digital camera recommendations from professionals.
• Read reviews of professionals for each camera.
• Reviews from Amazon and sites such as DPReview and CNET are also included.
• Sort results by brand, uses, price, size, color, type, image and capture.
• No registration and free.
• Similar sites: TestFreaks, allCamReviews and Kallow.

Check out BestInClass @ www.bestinclass.com (via Techcrunch)

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• TestFreaks: The only Gadget Review Website you’ll Ever Need
• TechSelector: Gadget Buying Guide
• ReviewGist : In-depth Reviews for Consumer Electronics
• Pluribo: Summarize Gadget and Electronics Reviews on Amazon
• Kallow: Simplest Way To Shop & Buy Electronic Goods

To go through a few good quality reviews you may have to browse through 4-5 search result pages. AllCamReviews.com limits its custom search to a number of quality review websites which provides the bulk of the quality reviews on the web. Not only it makes finding quality revies easy but also saves you a lot of time.

It also features a ‘Social Media Search’ which searches social media websites (like blogs, social bookmarking site etc) for your search query. So even after going through several reviews for the camera you can use this search to know what blogs and social media users say about it.

Check out allCamReviews @ www.allcamreviews.com

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• TestFreaks: The only Gadget Review Website you’ll Ever Need
• TechSelector: Gadget Buying Guide
• ReviewGist : In-depth Reviews for Consumer Electronics
• Pluribo: Summarize Gadget and Electronics Reviews on Amazon
• Kallow: Simplest Way To Shop & Buy Electronic Goods

You can use Zeer to search for certain product review and see what people are saying about it, or you can join a community and express your opinion for particular food product.

Zeer also allows you to add friends and ask for advice about any food related topic, ask about their experiences/feelings for a product. Another very good feature is the ability to rate a product since it tells you in a glance what people think about it.

Feature overview:

• Food product reviews by users.
• Read and write reviews for thousands of products.
• Search for a product by name or UPC.
• Search for products by manufacturer name, possible allergies, calories or ingredients.
• Nutritional information for more then 114,000 food products, and each one can be rated.
• Join a community and engage in discussions about any topic.
• Make friends with like-minded people and share advice.
• Add products to your shopping list or wish lists.

Visit Zeer @ www.zeer.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• WhatsOnMyFood: See What Pesticides are Used in Your Food
• TwoFoods: Compare Nutritional Values Of Common Foods
• ShugarStacks: Check The Amount of Sugar in Foods
• NutritionToolbox: Food Nutritional Information Database
• FitDay: Online Diet & Weight Loss Tracking Journal

As you see, the user interface is very simple and it divides electronic products in different categories of audio, home entertainment, computing etc. So if you are looking to save maximum time while shopping for electronic products, this site is definitely for you.

Check out Kallow @ www.kallow.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Pluribo: Summarize Gadget and Electronics Reviews on Amazon
• Shopnics: Compare Gadget Prices by Brand & Features
• ReviewGist : In-depth Reviews for Consumer Electronics

The site pulls all of the information from the Amazon product database. You are able to search for products by name, browse them by category such as accessories, audio & video, camera & photo, computers and so on.

Once you have the results in front of you simply star the items you like to compare them side-by-side.

Moreover, use the slider controls to filter the items further. You can set preferences for features like product rating, price, brand, warranty…. etc. The Spectackler simultaneously adjusts the results to your settings. There are also a wide range of sorting options, see below.

Specktackler comparison feature makes it easy to find out which product is best for you.

Overall Spectacler is a good tool to search for electronic products and gadgets and it is certainly better than Amazon’s default search engine. My only complaint is that sometimes when there is not enough of data for the product on Amazon comparisons are rather limited.

Features:

• Compare consumer electronic products side-by-side.
• Search product items by name or browse by category.
• Refine results by product rating, price, brand, warranty…. etc.
• No registration needed.

See Specktackler demo video:

Check out Spectackler @ www.spectackler.com

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• Shopnics: Compare Gadget Prices by Brand & Features
• ReviewGist : In-depth Reviews for Consumer Electronics
• Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site
• Wize: Find Top Recommended Products By Features
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics

Apart from looking up movie reviews you can check out movie show times and follow recent headlines and movie releases. Furthermore you can see user ratings and even rate movies yourself (registration required).

Features:

• Search movie reviews acroos popular review sites.
• See all reviews in one place.
• Data collected from movie critics, movie news sites, interviews and other sources.
• Site offers reviews for over 72,000 titles and more than 719.000 articles.
• Sort movie results by source.
• Folow recent headlines and movie releases.
• Rate movies and check out user rating for any movie.
• Find movie show times and tickets for particular movie.

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Check out MRGE @ www.mrqe.com

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• TwitCritics: Twitter Based Movie Ratings
• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MoviesPlanet: Find Free Full Length Movies To Watch Online

For each restaurant you get to see the type of cuisine they serve, how expensive the place is, user ratings and reviews, website link, telephone number, executive chef and some more information.

Once you found the restaurant you would like to visit, you can quicly check out if there are open tables avilable and then make a reservation. This is a great website to look at when choosing the right restaurant as well as reserving a spot for that restaurant.

Features:

• Find best restaurants in US and many international dining places.
• There are more than 8,500 top restaurants listed. See full list here.
• Book tables and make dinner reservations online.
• Get all the information about a restaurant and read reviews from the diners.
• See best restaurants for any US city, based on various criteria (see screenshot2)
• See all sorts of restaurant offers and events
• Filter results by location, restaurant theme, type of food, most booked, and more.
• Website also available from mobile and iPhone.

Check out OpenTable @ www.opentable.com

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• DiningIn: Group Food Ordering Online
• SpecialGourmets: Find restaurants for people with food allergies
• Setup-Tableware: Learn How To Set Up A Table
• Perfect Portions: Food Portions Calculator
• NYCFoodMap: NYC Restaurants Map

You can also connect your Facebook, Twitter or Friendfeed profile with your blipstream. And through your friend’s blipstreams you can discover new music and movies and check if they have given positive reviews about it.

Features

• Discover new movies, games and music
• Give them 160 character reviews (blips)
• Create wishlist of media you want to get and tag it
• Connect your social media profiles with your blipstream account

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There is one problem with it though, sometimes there are just too many reviews, especially when it comes to buying gadgets and home electronics. You can probably go through the first 10 reviews, but that’s about it. And that’s exactly what Pluribo (Firefox only) is all about. It can quickly analyze all reviews and produce a concise natural language summary for any product.

It tries to get only the important parts from the reviews and leave the ramblings out. What you get is a list of short summaries outlining pros and cons for that or the other product.

Check out the screenshot below.

Pluribo works directly from the Amazon product page without any redirects. Click reviews link and it will give you a quick list of pros and cons. Fast and simple. If you’re interested you can check out Pluribo demo video here.

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I know we have mentioned a number of cool gadget review sites before, these are ExpoTV (video reviews), Swotti (quick opinions), and ReviewGist but so far TestFreaks is my favorite. Not only does it combine the features offered by other websites but also does this quite well so you won’t get overwhelmed. Definitely a website to bookmark. Some of the noteworthy features:

Product Profile:

Each gadget has a profile page. Here you can check out gadget images, video reviews, and rating scores (i.e. general user score, expert score, design, value for money, features, ease fo use, performance etc.) Check out the screenshot below.

Side-by-side Comparion:

That’s another handy feature. If you need to make up your mind between 2 or more items you can compare the gadgets side by side. Quite handy.

Price Comparison:

Finally there is a price comparison feature that lets you easily find the cheapest place where you can order the gadget.

Check out TestFreaks @ www.testfreaks.com

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Search videos, browse by category, rate reviews, leave comments, subscribe etc. And if you are really enthusiastic you can submit your own video review and make some money.

Features:

• Browse and watch over 250.00 video reviews from product owners.
• Ask questions to people who own the product that you want to buy.
• Embed review videos onto your blog, ebay auction, online shop or personal webpage.
• Make your own video review and share it with others.
• Subscribe to your favorite reviewer and get notified when new videos are out.
• Rate and comment on videos (requires sign-up).

Check out ExpoTV @ www.expotv.com

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Features:

• Get detailed review (incl. pros and cons) for desired electronic gadgets.
• Compare similar gadgets side-by-side.
• Reviews are collected from authority sources such as CNet, PCWorld, Dreview and others.
• Search for items by name or browse products by categories.

Check out ReviewGist @ www.reviewgist.com [via TechCrunch]

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One of the best Swotti features is that it pulls information from external sources and not from one centralized database. Therefore, it’s almost impossible to manipulate it. So make sure to bookmark it.

Additional Features

- View product photos
- Filter reviews by rating and category/type

Check out Swotti @ www.swotti.com

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‘Find A Better Bank’ Features

• Compare all banks located within certain distance from your zipcode.
• Option to include / exclude : Branchless/Internet banks, student accounts, accounts for people over 50.
• Compare banks by features: Interest on balances, Overdraft Protection, Online Bill Pay Service, 24-hour telephone banking, etc.
• Compare banks by fees: Monthly Service Fee, Non-Bank ATM Surcharge, Insufficient Funds Fee, Overdraft Protection Transfer Fee, Check processing fee, Foreign ATM Withdrawal Fee, Quicken or MS Money set-up fee etc.
• Estimate yearly bank fees.
• Currently tracks about 50 top US banks and a handful of smaller regional banks. More banks being added every week.
• For additional details about how FBB works see its FAQ section.

Note (from FindABetterBank) : “We make money through advertisements and fees collected from participating banks and credit unions. Our partners have no influence over the content presented about their accounts.”

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Here you can interact with a number of hugely popular mobile phones via fully interactive web-based virtual handsets. Use your mouse cursor to click on the phone’s buttons, navigate through options, run default phone applications, change settings, etc. If some features aren’t clear then you can run a virtual demo for it. Want to play with the iPhone interface? Here your chance.

Feature List

• Virtually test-drive popular mobile handsets. Currently lists only 13 popular phones (incl. iPhone) but more phones will be added soon.
• For each phone view: dozens of demos and howto video (ex. how to download music), full specs list (battery life, dimensions, weight …), user reviews and ratings, etc.
• Compare multiple phones side-by-side.

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“TechSelector can quickly and easily search through more than 15,000 products for you and find the ones which best fit your individual needs.”

Feature Overview

• Use TechSelector’s Gadget Guide to help you find the gadget you want.
• Product categories: Digicams, Camcorders, TVs, PDAs, MP3 players, Printers, Scanners, DVD Players/Recorders, Gaming, and Cell phones.
• Search for products, or browse gadgets by brand or category.
• Coming Soon: “Ask the Expert” feature that lets users ask any gadget-related questions.

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From the website: “ProductWiki is the website where people share information about consumer products. All of the content in the wiki is written and maintained by people just like you”

Quick Overview:

• Create and edit existing product reviews.
• Search for product reviews or browse down by category (Auto, Food, Computers, Electronics, Sports, and more)
• For each product get a short product description, a user-voted list of PROS and CONS, image (sometimes gallery), comments, compeeting products, where-to-buy links, etc.
• Looking for something cool to buy? Check out PW’s “The Best Of” section.

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Features:

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