Posts Tagged with ‘powerreviews’

A month ago, I took a look at PowerReviews, which at the time was still in private beta. Since then, they've made a lot of changes to the site, changed the name to Buzzillions , and done a soft beta launch, with the big push coming next Tuesday.
In an email to private beta users, Jim Morris, VP of Customer Experience explained many of the changes:

"too busy, too many links" - We streamlined the home page, reorganized the categories, [...]

As a long-time Epinions member and contributor, I was skeptical of any new review sites. After all, with the affiliation with eBay and Shopping.com, Epinions seems to have cornered the market on consumer reviews, utilizing a community for content creation and peer ratings when Web 2.0 was a mere twinkle in Tim O'Reilly's eye. In addition, since the inception of Epinions, most online retailers have implemented consumer reviews on their own sites, so why would another really be necessary?
A quick pass [...]