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AlternativeTo interface is simple and easy to use. Just select the application and you will be presented with a list and rating of Alternative applications for it. Beside that it’s pretty interesting to see the twitter stream about the selected application.
SilkFair is claimed to be the true rival of EBay alternative for buyers and sellers online. It comes with a Web 2.0 looks and feels which made it more trendy and sleek. Sometimes E-Bay can be confusing and troublesome for the End users and not to mention there were a lot of E-Bay Boycott campaigns going on, even though I really doubt how to boycott e-bay since it’s been around for quite a while so they manage to have a large user base. But why SilkFair counts on my opinion cause It’s simpler and more easier to navigate, so for day to day general end-users will have more flexibility for what they are looking for and at the same time similar experience will cover for the buyers. More impressive part came when I’ve seen the actions to promote your profile on social networking sites like Digg and Reddit. SilkFair is going to be the leading Web 2.0 Socialized Shoppers and Sellers place. Each shop offers permanent urls, blogs for the shops and Individual Shop forums. I found it quite interesting that they have RSS feeds assigned with product categories. Quite Unique features are search by Color and Visual Search, you can see below such examples.
Maxthon became very quickly popular in Asia (awarded last year in Red Herring Asia ) and all over the world. The big difference with other browsers is that Maxthon is based on IE code which makes the software very familiar from the beginning but with a few twists. Unlike IE, it is very fast, safe [...]
