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RetailFans.com might not be designed for the guys in mind but it will seriously catch the attention of a smart guy. Why? Because a smart guy can find out about the latest fashion trends about the urban women are craving about. Basically RetailFans is a website where people come together to share the latest in fashion, cosmetics, jewelry and anything else that takes their fancy. So you might find all the geeky glitter girls roam around this place and make their voice about the fashion products they like. Finally a place for the girls to have their own Digg about the latest fashion-ware. RetailFans.com is pretty straight forward and easy to use website. Simple but effective ajax integration for smoother operations experiences.

Anyone can submit an item they’ve found on another website and vote on items that others have submitted. Items with the most votes rise to the top of the list. This way, users of the site collectively determine the most interesting items. This site is build on a web 2.0 style architecture so you might find similarity to the concept of delicious and digg itself. Previously I’ve seen a slightly similar site called HerFabLife, you might wanna check that out too.

Every item has a discussion attached to it, so you can join in the conversation and share your thoughts with other fans.

And now lets take a look the features:

• Digg a-like voting system along with list integration. Vote and become a fan of a product or Item and additionally add it to your list (which can be any list) for further consideration, these lists acts like categorized favorites
• Share your comments on any product
• Search and add products from around the web
• Use a browser bookmarklet to easily add a product location while you browse any shopping site
• Add multiple store locations for a product
• Rate store locations, which locations are better and which are not, rank them
• Web 2.0 style tag cloud of products

Screen Gallery:

This is the listing of the products, it can be by categories or by trends

The product details page displays information about the product, links to the store location, ratings and comments about the product itself

Look up a product from around the web using the search or simply put the web url of the product store location

This is a very simple example of your custom lists where you collect your favorite products

The tag cloud view might remind you about many social boomarking sites

From my own point of view this site can be a serious trend settler and a unique place to find products from different geological location. I would like to see a rating system for the products besides the number of fans option. Why not take a look at it by yourself and test it out. Registration and using the site is free and fast. Do you have your own opinion? Feel free to share.