Interesting social services
I came across a review of several social services and simply interesting projects popular abroad. Some of them are unnecessary for Russia, but many are really not enough. It would be great if someone became interested in these projects and brought them to life with us. (I apologize for an inaccurate translation, the main general meaning will be clear. If you need to correct inaccuracies, just point them out and I will correct)
StreetEasy (www.streeteasy.com) is a free website giving access to listings of properties sold and leased in New York and North Jersey. In addition to the standard information on prices, area and number of bedrooms, StreetEasy provides housing seekers with the ability to track listings in such aspects as location, building status, distance from schools and other special facilities. Site users have access to photo materials, contacts (e-mail or direct call), the ability to save tracked information and can receive messages about the availability of proposals on the property of interest to them.
Located in Los Angeles, ZIGABIT (www.zigabid.com) enables sellers and buyers to communicate directly to discuss ticket prices, which are considered as goods and, by putting forward a series of counter offers, the buyer and seller eventually arrive at a mutually fair market price for this product. ZIGABIT differs from other similar sites in that part of the transaction is redirected to the organizers of the show.
Plus, the site has a section with photo reports from various events and site visitors can leave there their notes and comments.
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OpenCarPrice.com (www.opencarprice.com), RealCarTips.com (www.realcartips.com) and PriceHub (www.pricehub.com) offer to send readers information about what price the previous car owners paid and how to In the future, they may bargain for the best price.
Cmypitch.com is positioning itself as “Dragons Den meets YouTube” (It seems to be such a Dragons Den broadcast on television, where investors are looking for different crazy ideas). This is a video site that allows people who want to start their own business to capture their ideas in a short video to attract the necessary funding. The site also provides a range of services directly to entrepreneurs: recommendations for a successful business, information about the possibility of obtaining the right to represent any company and selling its goods / services, information about the business being put up for sale, etc. ... Although the website’s activities are constrained by the rules and laws of the UK in the economy and finance, yet entrepreneurs will be happy to get any opportunity to find potential investors.
SatLav (www.westminster.gov.uk), a site created by industrial designer Gail Night and winning the innovation competition held by the City Council of Westminster City, London. The municipality of the city launched a program of services, which allows citizens to obtain the necessary information about the location and working hours of urban toilets.
All that needs to be done is to send a message with the text “Toilet” to the number 80097 sms. See also similar MizPee website (www.mizpee.com)
AVVO (www.avvo.com) - a site containing a database of practicing lawyers, where you can find information about work experience, areas of practice and customer reviews.
Ratemyteachers (www.ratemyteachers.com) contains similar information regarding teachers: more than 10 million reviews of more than 1 million teachers. See also Yollege (www.yollege.com).
PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) is a website that gives patients the opportunity to keep abreast of what is happening in the field of honey. services, and share useful information with each other. Patients, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, companies supplying honey communicate on this site. Equipment, organizations conducting research in the field of medicine and some non-profit funds. The site is supported by organizations representing honey. services and receive in return the opportunity to use the information from the site for the purpose of conducting research in the field of improving medical services.
Liftopia (www.liftopia.com) is a website where you can buy tickets for ski resorts online and at a discount. Visitors choose the dates and places where they would like to ski, and then browse the offer lists with cheap tickets. The administration of the ski resort can charge lower prices for tickets purchased in advance without the right to refund, as well as higher prices for tickets purchased on the spot. On the site you can find updated detailed weather information and route maps, which also attracts service buyers.
Following SeatGuru (www.seatguru.com), TripKick (www.tripkick.com) began to provide detailed information on hotels, including the size of rooms, the quality of sanitary ware, etc ... Tripkick spent a year on collecting useful information and can now give advice as to which floors are better to choose and which ones to avoid. Guests are asked to leave their own reviews about hotels and post photos of the rooms in which they stayed. In October 2008, the site could find information about 400 hotels in the 18 largest cities in the United States.
Despite the fact that more than 25% of Americans own shares, only about 20% of investors are interested in participating in the management of companies through a trustee. ProxyDemocracy (www.proxydemocracy.org) is a non-profit, independent project whose goal is to change this situation. With it, an individual investor can get information about the company he owns in order to make the right decision in the future. Shareholders can subscribe to the ProxyDemocracy newsletter and receive notifications about company shareholder meetings and even data on how they plan to vote on a particular issue on the agenda. Also on the site you can find data on the results of polls and voting on 77 investment funds: investors see how their funds are ranked on the scale of activity and can make the right decision in the future when choosing directors regarding policies and management in the company.
MakeupAlley.com is a network of sites about beauty and cosmetics, whose members are divided into a given topic (everything from make-up and skin care to perfume and toilet water). Dissatisfied with the product purchased, site users can exchange it with other users who want to try this product. MakeupAlley also contains information about the type and color of the skin, hair color and eyes of each user. All this for a more successful application of the advice received on how to become even more beautiful.
Glassdoor (www.glassdoor.com) is a new site, which aims to provide complete information on how to work in individual companies from a financial and other "points of view". The site contains reviews, ratings and salary details for individual positions in certain companies. To register for the site, you must provide (anonymously) a review and / or salary review regarding your present employer or any other for the past 3 years. All users must provide a valid email address, and all reviews are carefully checked by the Glassdoor administration. In turn, the site provides its users with free access to nearly 32,000 reviews and salary data for more than 7,000 companies, representing more than 800 countries around the world. Users are asked to post both negative and positive reviews, along with suggestions to senior management and evaluation of the company regarding such criteria as work-rest balance, respect, and employee morale. See also Australian LiveSalary (www.livesalary.com.au).
Dishola (www.dishola.com) disclaims general reviews about restaurants and offers its users information about individual dishes. Passionate lovers of food can send a request under the heading Dish wanted “I want this dish” and get information about where it can be done in the place where they are (live). The site provides reviews of the dishes written by the editors themselves, professional critics and ordinary people. Visitors can also leave their reviews and even post photos of their favorite dishes.
Existing due to advertising Delaycast (www.delaycast.com) informs all travelers about the likelihood of a delay in the way. In the Delay Profiles section, visitors will find information on the best time and date of the planned trip, as well as the services of which airlines to use. In another section, Delay Predictions, you can find out which flights are delayed and which are canceled at the airport of interest to you at a given time. To date, the site has information on 60 US priority airports and 11 key airlines. Information is available 4-5 months before the planned trip.
BrichHouseSecurity offers the first GPS Mail Tracker (www.brickhousesecurity.com/smallest-gps-tracker-letter-logger.html) (a device that helps track sent mail) at a price of $ 699.95. USA. The device is inch thick, flexible and fits in a standard envelope that stores information on a removable microSD card, which allows you to record information about the location of the envelope, its transmission speed, and height above sea level in any corner of the planet. The sender of the envelope thus tracks the path traversed by his mail, and the time of its delivery. This allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of the delivery service, tracking your correspondence using Google Earth, and obtain data on delays through time stamps on the stamp.
The DNA Paternity Test DNA Paternity Test (www.dnatesting.com), by Identigene, is sold in US pharmacies for the price of $ 30. US plus 120 dollars. For further laboratory research. Reliability of the result up to 99% in terms from 3 to 5 days from the moment of receiving the prototype (smear from the cheek)
In order to prevent prices from “winding up” with the departments of nutrition, agriculture and local economy of Italy, it proposes that all interested parties have access to the necessary information by SMS messages. This service is called SMS Consumatori (www.smsconsumatori.it) and is designed to help track prices for more than 80 types of fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products, fish, etc. The service allows consumers to use this information when purchasing these products. The buyer sends an SMS with the product name to the number 47947 and then receives an answer, which indicates both the wholesale purchase price and the average selling price of the goods in the North, Center, South of the country. If the goods are sold in a wide range, the buyer receives several SMS with information about the most purchased types of goods. To ensure the availability of prices, SMS Consumatori uses price data from 2,200 different points of sale.
On the site 23andMe (www.23andme.com) for 399 dollars. The United States can purchase a special kit that gives its customers the opportunity to learn (through the use of DNA technology) about the possible susceptibility to more than 90 acquired and hereditary diseases at the genetic level. Those who bought this product can also track their ancestry down to the primitive representatives of their own kind and compare their genomes with members of other people around the world. Research results are sent over the Internet. In addition, anyone who bought such a kit can contribute to further research in this area by completing an online questionnaire as part of the 23andMe research program, conducted in collaboration with Parkinson's Institute.
Using Google’s Android operating system, T-Mobile G1 (www.t-mobileg1.com) offers its users to use an advanced price comparison system - Shopsavvy. The buyer scans almost any barcode using a video camera in the phone, and then through an online search finds the most favorable prices for themselves on the desired product. Once the optimal price has been found, the user can purchase the product either via the Internet or using the Google Maps phone built in to find the right store.
Gentrifire (www.gentrifire.com) is a rather ironic website (for a four-and-a-half), which gives its users the opportunity to calculate the percentage that they can contribute to improving the status of a particular area, moving there to live, as well as how much time and effort they cost it. The site uses data from Craigslist, Yelp, as well as Google maps. Wealthy property hunters enter data about their chosen area, house price and amenities, and then choose the location of the intended purchase on Google map. Depending on how well the area chosen by them is already “ennobled”, Gentrifire gives a percentage of possible further “ennoblement”, if the applicants do decide to settle there.
Another service in the comments added. Sport website - www.gyminee.com
Google provides a very interesting service together with several other companies - gapminder.org . These are statistics collected from around the world and presented in the form of graphs. Service shows difficult to analyze data in a convenient way. A huge number of opportunities to present and visualize different data.
The property
StreetEasy (www.streeteasy.com) is a free website giving access to listings of properties sold and leased in New York and North Jersey. In addition to the standard information on prices, area and number of bedrooms, StreetEasy provides housing seekers with the ability to track listings in such aspects as location, building status, distance from schools and other special facilities. Site users have access to photo materials, contacts (e-mail or direct call), the ability to save tracked information and can receive messages about the availability of proposals on the property of interest to them.
activity
Located in Los Angeles, ZIGABIT (www.zigabid.com) enables sellers and buyers to communicate directly to discuss ticket prices, which are considered as goods and, by putting forward a series of counter offers, the buyer and seller eventually arrive at a mutually fair market price for this product. ZIGABIT differs from other similar sites in that part of the transaction is redirected to the organizers of the show.
Plus, the site has a section with photo reports from various events and site visitors can leave there their notes and comments.
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Cars
OpenCarPrice.com (www.opencarprice.com), RealCarTips.com (www.realcartips.com) and PriceHub (www.pricehub.com) offer to send readers information about what price the previous car owners paid and how to In the future, they may bargain for the best price.
Commercial enterprises
Cmypitch.com is positioning itself as “Dragons Den meets YouTube” (It seems to be such a Dragons Den broadcast on television, where investors are looking for different crazy ideas). This is a video site that allows people who want to start their own business to capture their ideas in a short video to attract the necessary funding. The site also provides a range of services directly to entrepreneurs: recommendations for a successful business, information about the possibility of obtaining the right to represent any company and selling its goods / services, information about the business being put up for sale, etc. ... Although the website’s activities are constrained by the rules and laws of the UK in the economy and finance, yet entrepreneurs will be happy to get any opportunity to find potential investors.
Sanitary services
SatLav (www.westminster.gov.uk), a site created by industrial designer Gail Night and winning the innovation competition held by the City Council of Westminster City, London. The municipality of the city launched a program of services, which allows citizens to obtain the necessary information about the location and working hours of urban toilets.
All that needs to be done is to send a message with the text “Toilet” to the number 80097 sms. See also similar MizPee website (www.mizpee.com)
Law and education
AVVO (www.avvo.com) - a site containing a database of practicing lawyers, where you can find information about work experience, areas of practice and customer reviews.
Ratemyteachers (www.ratemyteachers.com) contains similar information regarding teachers: more than 10 million reviews of more than 1 million teachers. See also Yollege (www.yollege.com).
The medicine
PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) is a website that gives patients the opportunity to keep abreast of what is happening in the field of honey. services, and share useful information with each other. Patients, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, companies supplying honey communicate on this site. Equipment, organizations conducting research in the field of medicine and some non-profit funds. The site is supported by organizations representing honey. services and receive in return the opportunity to use the information from the site for the purpose of conducting research in the field of improving medical services.
Skiing
Liftopia (www.liftopia.com) is a website where you can buy tickets for ski resorts online and at a discount. Visitors choose the dates and places where they would like to ski, and then browse the offer lists with cheap tickets. The administration of the ski resort can charge lower prices for tickets purchased in advance without the right to refund, as well as higher prices for tickets purchased on the spot. On the site you can find updated detailed weather information and route maps, which also attracts service buyers.
Hotels
Following SeatGuru (www.seatguru.com), TripKick (www.tripkick.com) began to provide detailed information on hotels, including the size of rooms, the quality of sanitary ware, etc ... Tripkick spent a year on collecting useful information and can now give advice as to which floors are better to choose and which ones to avoid. Guests are asked to leave their own reviews about hotels and post photos of the rooms in which they stayed. In October 2008, the site could find information about 400 hotels in the 18 largest cities in the United States.
Finance
Despite the fact that more than 25% of Americans own shares, only about 20% of investors are interested in participating in the management of companies through a trustee. ProxyDemocracy (www.proxydemocracy.org) is a non-profit, independent project whose goal is to change this situation. With it, an individual investor can get information about the company he owns in order to make the right decision in the future. Shareholders can subscribe to the ProxyDemocracy newsletter and receive notifications about company shareholder meetings and even data on how they plan to vote on a particular issue on the agenda. Also on the site you can find data on the results of polls and voting on 77 investment funds: investors see how their funds are ranked on the scale of activity and can make the right decision in the future when choosing directors regarding policies and management in the company.
beauty
MakeupAlley.com is a network of sites about beauty and cosmetics, whose members are divided into a given topic (everything from make-up and skin care to perfume and toilet water). Dissatisfied with the product purchased, site users can exchange it with other users who want to try this product. MakeupAlley also contains information about the type and color of the skin, hair color and eyes of each user. All this for a more successful application of the advice received on how to become even more beautiful.
Recruitment
Glassdoor (www.glassdoor.com) is a new site, which aims to provide complete information on how to work in individual companies from a financial and other "points of view". The site contains reviews, ratings and salary details for individual positions in certain companies. To register for the site, you must provide (anonymously) a review and / or salary review regarding your present employer or any other for the past 3 years. All users must provide a valid email address, and all reviews are carefully checked by the Glassdoor administration. In turn, the site provides its users with free access to nearly 32,000 reviews and salary data for more than 7,000 companies, representing more than 800 countries around the world. Users are asked to post both negative and positive reviews, along with suggestions to senior management and evaluation of the company regarding such criteria as work-rest balance, respect, and employee morale. See also Australian LiveSalary (www.livesalary.com.au).
Restaurants
Dishola (www.dishola.com) disclaims general reviews about restaurants and offers its users information about individual dishes. Passionate lovers of food can send a request under the heading Dish wanted “I want this dish” and get information about where it can be done in the place where they are (live). The site provides reviews of the dishes written by the editors themselves, professional critics and ordinary people. Visitors can also leave their reviews and even post photos of their favorite dishes.
Travels
Existing due to advertising Delaycast (www.delaycast.com) informs all travelers about the likelihood of a delay in the way. In the Delay Profiles section, visitors will find information on the best time and date of the planned trip, as well as the services of which airlines to use. In another section, Delay Predictions, you can find out which flights are delayed and which are canceled at the airport of interest to you at a given time. To date, the site has information on 60 US priority airports and 11 key airlines. Information is available 4-5 months before the planned trip.
Tracking devices
BrichHouseSecurity offers the first GPS Mail Tracker (www.brickhousesecurity.com/smallest-gps-tracker-letter-logger.html) (a device that helps track sent mail) at a price of $ 699.95. USA. The device is inch thick, flexible and fits in a standard envelope that stores information on a removable microSD card, which allows you to record information about the location of the envelope, its transmission speed, and height above sea level in any corner of the planet. The sender of the envelope thus tracks the path traversed by his mail, and the time of its delivery. This allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of the delivery service, tracking your correspondence using Google Earth, and obtain data on delays through time stamps on the stamp.
DNA test
The DNA Paternity Test DNA Paternity Test (www.dnatesting.com), by Identigene, is sold in US pharmacies for the price of $ 30. US plus 120 dollars. For further laboratory research. Reliability of the result up to 99% in terms from 3 to 5 days from the moment of receiving the prototype (smear from the cheek)
Products
In order to prevent prices from “winding up” with the departments of nutrition, agriculture and local economy of Italy, it proposes that all interested parties have access to the necessary information by SMS messages. This service is called SMS Consumatori (www.smsconsumatori.it) and is designed to help track prices for more than 80 types of fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products, fish, etc. The service allows consumers to use this information when purchasing these products. The buyer sends an SMS with the product name to the number 47947 and then receives an answer, which indicates both the wholesale purchase price and the average selling price of the goods in the North, Center, South of the country. If the goods are sold in a wide range, the buyer receives several SMS with information about the most purchased types of goods. To ensure the availability of prices, SMS Consumatori uses price data from 2,200 different points of sale.
Health
On the site 23andMe (www.23andme.com) for 399 dollars. The United States can purchase a special kit that gives its customers the opportunity to learn (through the use of DNA technology) about the possible susceptibility to more than 90 acquired and hereditary diseases at the genetic level. Those who bought this product can also track their ancestry down to the primitive representatives of their own kind and compare their genomes with members of other people around the world. Research results are sent over the Internet. In addition, anyone who bought such a kit can contribute to further research in this area by completing an online questionnaire as part of the 23andMe research program, conducted in collaboration with Parkinson's Institute.
Barcodes
Using Google’s Android operating system, T-Mobile G1 (www.t-mobileg1.com) offers its users to use an advanced price comparison system - Shopsavvy. The buyer scans almost any barcode using a video camera in the phone, and then through an online search finds the most favorable prices for themselves on the desired product. Once the optimal price has been found, the user can purchase the product either via the Internet or using the Google Maps phone built in to find the right store.
The property
Gentrifire (www.gentrifire.com) is a rather ironic website (for a four-and-a-half), which gives its users the opportunity to calculate the percentage that they can contribute to improving the status of a particular area, moving there to live, as well as how much time and effort they cost it. The site uses data from Craigslist, Yelp, as well as Google maps. Wealthy property hunters enter data about their chosen area, house price and amenities, and then choose the location of the intended purchase on Google map. Depending on how well the area chosen by them is already “ennobled”, Gentrifire gives a percentage of possible further “ennoblement”, if the applicants do decide to settle there.
Sport
Another service in the comments added. Sport website - www.gyminee.com
Statistics
Google provides a very interesting service together with several other companies - gapminder.org . These are statistics collected from around the world and presented in the form of graphs. Service shows difficult to analyze data in a convenient way. A huge number of opportunities to present and visualize different data.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/55824/
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