SocialGuides.com - Use The Social Web To Rate Services

A resource that has just moved out of private beta, SocialGuides.com enables people to share where they have been and what they have done using the power of the social web. The basic premise is that of mixing local search data with real-time social input, and letting those who network together keep each other posted on events and prices that could appeal to them.

For instance, people can give their take on a specific business while they are on the premises by using the relevant hashgtags, and any other person who stumbles upon the discussion can add his or her own insight and enhance the conversation (and the search results) even more.

Registration to the site is inexpensive, and you will also have the opportunity to link both your Facebook and Twitter accounts to Social Guides. This has the main advantage of letting you sync up your posts, and avoid having to say the same thing over and over again and end up repeating yourself more than M. Night Shyamalan.

"A location centric conversation platform that makes it easy to find and share the places you've been, where you are, and where you want to go next. Call it a people powered GPS, call it a realtime Wikipedia, whatever you call it, it's cool."

Anything that unleashes the power the social web for interexchanging information is bound to do fine.

How many people have already signed up for this service and are actively using it? How many would it take for Social Guides to become truly useful?