Wow, great feedback. Thanks! Let me try and address some of your points. "I think if you place social suggestions at the heart of the service it just becomes a

Wow, great feedback. Thanks! Let me try and address some of your points. "I think if you place social suggestions at the heart of the service it just becomes another social news site." I agree. We focused on this first because having user input is important to us. We strongly want to avoid becoming a digg or reddit clone, but at the same time we want to avoid being based only on science and mining the data from other sources. “When you're talking about trend identification and forecasting, most customers want some degree of editorial analysis (Springwise, Teentracking focus groups, etc.) and/or some type of meta-analysis based on aggregate data, such as search data (Yahoo Buzz, Google Trends)” I totally agree. Our system balances our users opinions with data from outside sources (we call this the X-factor.) By combining the two data streams we are able to get (imho) the best of both worlds. As I said, the front end for the users took up a lot of time; however, we are working hard on refining our algorithm and adding more sources. We want to combine the data driven resources of a Nielsen with the forward thinking early adopters of a “look-look’ (http://www.look-look.com/ http://www.look-look.com/) “How do you plan to make money?” We want to connect our users with businesses. Users can trade points for products and opportunities from the right sponsors. Someone who is into sports could have an opportunity to try out the newest snowboard. We are working on this part of the site, but expect it to be up with in a month. Sneak peak: http://edopter.com/showcase/ http://edopter.com/showcase/ Thanks for the feedback. These are some great ideas, and will work on making things more clear on the site.