Thursday, April 3, 2008

Wikilens Charlotte Bicycle Shops

I have started a new category on WikiLens.  It is "Charlotte Bicycle Shops."  The goal is to enter all bicycle shops in the area and get users to rate them.  Finding a shop that suites a cyclist's needs is not always easy.  Different shops sell different brands, offer different services, open different hours and attract different styles of riders.  Shops have a overlap in this areas.  As a cyclist I usually am loyal to one shop.  However, I do find the need to shop at multiple shops for various reasons.  Often when I try a new shop I am comparing to pat ones and looking for the same "feel."
To start on a new system on WikiLens you have to create a new category and new items(shops) for that category.  Not the easiest data insertion process... but what is?
Currently I have a reasonable number of the shops in the area entered and am twisting the arms of my friends to rate the shops.  It isn't producing recommendations yet.  But I don't have much user data so far and don't want to create fake data for it.

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