http://reviews.vois.com Reviewing New Websites Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone collects something.  Some people don't consciously do so, but everyone has a collection of something, it seems.  Some collect shot glasses, tourist spoons, baseball cards, lint, you name it.  Websites, photo albums, tattoos, and a whole myriad of other things have been dedicated to people's collections. Now there's WhatUCollect.com instead. This ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/11/13/show-whatucollect-and-find-other-collectors-online/ Getting a tattoo of a barcode on your neck or the back of your head is so last year.  Why not barcode your avatar, website, blog, forum, and more? BarcodesGenerator.com is a simple little site app that makes a generic barcode for whatever you'd like.  You can put in your name, ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/11/10/barcodes-generator-because-all-of-us-need-a-barcode/ Everywhere you look, there's an iPhone app for that.  Now it's getting to where there's a Twitter app for that too.  Some are better than others, of course, and many leave a lot to be desired.  Not Taweet.com, though.  This is a great little app for doing just what it ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/11/06/taweet-for-streamlining-scheduling-for-events-via-twitter/ Book lovers, students, and others can find books both online and off at a discount.  One of the foundations of the Internet, amazingly, is books--which are decided non-Netish.  Amazon.com, however, has risen to become the world's largest bookseller.  Thanks to the Internet. Finding the lowest price for something is one of ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/11/03/booklookr-finds-books-on-the-cheap/ This is a pretty cool idea and, surprisingly, hasn't been done already.  I guess with how easy it is to embed video now, most people don't have a lot of use for animated .GIF files anymore except as avatars and advertisements.  Still, they are useful enough for some people that ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/29/gifsoup-turns-youtube-vids-into-animated-gifs/ Despite its name, TweetsLounge.com is not a hookup joint for singles, but is instead a way for people to search for and find local businesses who're using Twitter.  Still in beta, the site has a simple search form you can use to find businesses in your local area and their ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/26/tweets-lounge-for-finding-local-businesses-on-twitter/ If you have dietary considerations, either for medical reasons, allergies, or you're just tired of eating that "certain something" that gives you gastro-intestinal problems, then this site is for you. RecipeRX.com is a website where you can look at recipes, restaurants, and even products to find those that are (or aren't) ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/22/recipe-rx-seeks-to-match-your-dietary-needs-with-restaurants-near-you/ If you're involved in a startup, you no doubt have a lot of ideas and a lot of energy to get them done, but very little money to spend doing it.  Many times, services are either cobbled together in-house (with mixed results) or much-needed funds are diverted to pay for ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/19/theswop-lets-startups-barter-their-services-to-each-other/ Well, that's what it calls itself anyway.  It's not quite a search engine and not quite Google Maps.  Goby.com is a search engine meant to find you local things based on what you want to do.  So searching for "Italian Food" in Moscow, Idaho should bring you a list of ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/16/goby-is-a-decision-search-engine/ Like pizza?  How about your friends?  Do they like pizza too?  If you find yourself getting together with friends for pizza at a real restaurant (not on someone's couch with a cardboard box), you've probably run into the problem of organizing these get-togethers.  Meetups might help, but now there's something ... http://reviews.vois.com/2009/10/13/pizzatweetup-where-your-next-pizza-meet-will-be/