Tekarma brings professionalism to user generated reviews
By Azam on March 16, 2009 
Tekarma is a user review site that is designed manage reviews in a more credible and professional manner. The service could be better described as comparative user review and wiki format allowing for users to edit and update info. Hopefully Tekarma will develop into a valuable service with users contributing valuable information to the service. The benefit will be having multiple users available to contribute accurate info on: description, specs, resources, and reviews.
The wiki format is very valuable and user friendly with more complete and useful detailed information. The advantage of having edits and attribution of resources provides interested users with a greater wealth of information than most sites that have reviews that are rather limited or more biased one way or another. I would related the offering to benefits of Consumer Report meets web 2.0 were crowd sourcing enhances the experience.
Tekarma has all the ingredients to be a powerful review site for comparative shopping and alternative customer service or help site with items. The wiki format lends itself to the easy navigation between categories and items of interest. The site has a search capability that will powerful tool to quickly identify items and categories on the site. Users will be able to create new entries for items and able to edit and comment on items listed. The site is design to build a community of users through profiles and their entries on the site to build credibility and reputation. The Tekarma well designed look and feel make the experience more impressive than
Alex Kazin is the founder and a former ebay executive engineering. The concept developed from his experience at the auction site that lack detailed descriptions and info on items being sold on the ebay site.
Tekarma is a subsidiary of social media company Tokoni which is a privately-held company backed by eBay and its founder Pierre Omidyar.
Tekarma Review of the Apple iPhone
Tags : Alex Kazin, Apple iPhone, Consumer Reports, eBay, engadget, Pierre Omidyar, Tekarma, Tokani