Talk about it

Web 2.0 startup, General Internet, has announced the launch of TalkingThings.com - a wiki project that aims to list in one place, details about every consumer product from around the world.

27 Sep 2007

TalkingThings.com aims to be an information resource for consumer products written by volunteers from around the world. Since this encyclopedia of products is a wiki and runs on Mediawiki - the same application that powers the popular wikipedia online encyclopedia - this means that anyone who visits this website can contribute to its contents.

Apart from over 150,000 products that already listed and editable on the site, users are free to create articles for products that aren't already listed. Thousands of new product stubs (articles with information provided by online merchants) are uploaded regularly so the database is quickly being populated with as many products as possible. Users are encouraged to include as many details about these products as they wish on these pages.

Since the website has only just launched, there are many more features still in the works. Some of these include a product rating and review system, and a full featured social networking system integrated with the wiki.

The TalkingThings product encyclopedia can be accessed at http://www.talkingthings.com and a list of all product articles currently online is available at http://www.talkingthings.com/index.php/Special:Allpages

Source: eMediaWire.com