IzzyMe.com - Classifieds Meet Social Networking

IzzyMe is like the classified section of your newspaper mashed up with a social networking website. On this Seattle-based site, you can run a traditional search for services or items for sale, as well as post your own advertisements. Here you can find job postings, a personals section, housing, autos, and a place to browse for or post your resume, and you can search for a particular item or service by keyword or by category. The twist comes with the social networking aspect; you can create a mini profile (complete with photo) on the site to tell the community about yourself. You’ll also be able to view a list of what a given user is selling. Like other social sites, you can send users private messages across the site as well as add them to your group of friends, and join groups. In terms of the ads themselves, you can upload a photo and attach a brief description of the service or item.

“We created izzyMe because we didn't see any of the other classifieds site giving their users full control over how they sell, buy, local or nationwide, cash credit, and or trade (Why limit the user). We feel if people want to connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups, and on the classified site, they should be able to. This is a site that is very much a work in progress. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had”

IzzyMe is an interesting concept which may help build up trust among a classified community by easily allowing users to interact with and get to know each other before engaging in binding financial transactions.

The site itself lacks some functionality and isn’t formatted to fit most computer screens, it seems. The personal profile section could be expanded to include more information as well. .