{"id":271,"date":"2009-01-04T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-01-05T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:43:00","slug":"good-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/write-ups\/good-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how does one be good? And, apparently now I need a guide to tell me?<\/p>\n

The Good Guide<\/a> is an application for web and mobile devices, that gives ratings on how “good” a product is. We are not talking about “good”, as in how\u00c2\u00a0satisfied\u00c2\u00a0the customers are or the quality of the product. We’re talking about how good the product is moralistically.<\/p>\n

The Good Guide website and mobile app measure a product’s moral good on “Health Performance”, “Environmental Performance”, and “Social Performance”. By my account these are all valid rating systems for a product.<\/p>\n

\"Good<\/p>\n

The site provides links to Amazon for the products that they list, and gives users the ability to create a personal shopping list.<\/p>\n

In theory, the site is a win. In practice it leaves a lot to be desired.\u00c2\u00a0The usability of the site, quality of content, and amount of content are all lacking; and could use some major attention. Things like this take time to develop though, and so I’m hoping in the coming months it will mature into something more useful.<\/p>\n

My first request from the Good Guide, would be to have it integrate data from a more user friendly and content heavy site.\u00c2\u00a0How I search, sort, and see data should follow a more organized format.\u00c2\u00a0For example, I would like to be able to search the Amazon site through a “Good Guide” search bar, and have it bring up Amazon results with Good Guide ratings.<\/p>\n

The site should also take more advantage of crowd sourcing. If I find a product that doesn’t have a Good Guide rating, it should allow me to rate it. The Good Guide should also provide guidelines on how to rate a product. The process of rating should be easy from a user perspective. Overall, I shouldn’t feel frustrated at the fact that a product I’m interested in isn’t rated, and there is nothing I can do about it.<\/p>\n

I would even go so far as to suggest, that the company change their business model so that they are not reinventing the wheel and providing a product listing site. \u00c2\u00a0But rather add value to other sites, by providing a database and api for serving “Good Guide” ratings.<\/p>\n

Who am I to judge though. The Good Guide has a very impressive staff of educational professionals from very\u00c2\u00a0prestigious\u00c2\u00a0universities. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe I am someone though, because the Good Guide welcomes the community responses on their Idea Board.<\/a><\/p>\n

All that being said, I still do appreciate the effort and find value in the ratings. Their iPhone app is useful when I need to search for something on the fly. I think their site and app is only something I would hit once in a blue moon when I remembered about it. The “Good Guide” isn’t quite “Good” enough yet to be integrated into my day-to-day lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how does one be good? And, apparently now I need a guide to tell me? The Good Guide is an application for web and mobile devices, that gives ratings on how “good” a product is. We are not talking about “good”, as in how\u00c2\u00a0satisfied\u00c2\u00a0the customers are or the quality of the product. We’re talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,30],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-write-ups","tag-green","tag-iphone-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}