Today I checked out a new social networking site called Acobay. Why in the world would anyone need another networking site, you may ask? Well, what makes Acobay different is that it is a social network for your STUFF. Acobay bills itself as a consumer network. It helps you keep track of things you own, things you wish you own, places you have been, restaurants, and more. You then can use the networking part of the equation to chat and discuss with people who have the same things as you do!
Its a sister site to Acobox, which is a really wonderful database of free images based on Drupal. I reviewed Acobox previously and I find that use it all the time to put great looking public domain images on my blogs with about three mouse clicks.
Acobay has a similar clean look and feel to it - very refreshing. I did wish for more pop-up help though as I was testing it out. I set up a profile, and added my Sony DSC-T9, Wii Fit, and a few other items. I added Rayman Raving Rabbids to my wish list. I could see other people who had these items, and their comments, which adds a nice networking element to the application. The also have a Stuff Map feature that serves as the main categorization for the site.
Here is a link to My Stuff on Acobay.
I used some of my famous Google-Fu and discovered that the brains behind Acobay are at a company called Acosys. The have offices in Honk Kong and Beijing. They are a self-funded startup with arious projects in the works. From the wording of their website I can tell that these guys are involved in some real cutting edge Web 2.0 projects. I think the way they want bloggers to review their sites is also really great because they have you use the site and see what it is like so you can give a real review.
