NEW PEOPLES GUIDE TO CIAO CAFE

Advantages: A good place to share with fellow members.
Disadvantages: Sometimes, you can share too much.

...When I first joined up as a member of Ciao, I really did not know where to write opinions which are called "cafe opinions". It was all a mystery to me, until one day I followed someone elses review to see where it lead, and came across quite by chance, the cafe section of Ciao. WHERE IS THE CAFE LOCATED The cafe section of Ciao is located on the Members Centre Page. When you are logged in you will find links to the Member Centre at the top of your screen. Press this and you will be taken into the Member page and at the bottom on the left hand side, there is a heading "cafe". Press this to open up a whole new experience on Ciao. This site is primarily a site for consumer products of course, and that is the principle aim of the site, to produce good quality reviews for the public. However, the cafe section is a little luxury...

thingywhatsit 26.04.2004 (04.05.2004) · Read review
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Review of A Newbie's Guide to the Ciao Café

The Ciao Café Primer: "A West Side Story"

Advantages: Provides Ciao a convenient "skeleton-closet" in which to hide its unruly, "creative" people, and bury their aberrantly original ops.
Disadvantages: The Ciao Café works! Congrats to you, Ciao; Operation "Forced-Seclusion" is an unqualified success!

.... INTRO: ARE YOU "PRO-CREATIVE" OR "RE-PRODUCT-IVE?" Hello Newbies. The following op is (theoretically) directed at you vanilla-dots; note the topic: "A Newbie's Guide to the Ciao Café." If I don't refer to you Ciao-peops; both the "new-bies" and the "yesterday's news-bies," as "newbies," I'm courting a whole slew of "OT" ratings, so bear with me. One of the many things that makes Ciao such a fun place is its community "esprit de corps;" the harmless rivalries, the lighthearted flamebaiting and the playful feuding between member factions over conflicting ideologies. IF YOU CONTINUE TO READ THIS, YOU NEED A BRAIN-EXAMINATION (NO, REALLY...) An example of a Ciao ideology conflict that sparks a bit of sparring, fans a bit of flaming, motivates a modicum of mutual-antagonism between members is the "CIAO CAFE versus CIAO...

29th_Candidate 01.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of A Newbie's Guide to the Ciao Café

** The Chameleon Café **

Advantages: Excellent atmosphere, Comfortable seating, great low price food, friendly staff.
Disadvantages: Slow service, expensive drinks.

...** Introduction ** I am lucky enough to work in what is claimed to be one of the ?trendy? parts of London. The place they call Clapham. Whether it is actually ?trendy? is another story all together. However, luckily for me I am surrounded by bars, cafés, restaurants and of course the good old McDonalds or two! But this also means we are spoilt for choice. When we plan lunch we have to start planning from the morning. Indecisiveness is our middle name! But after a while we always break the list down to one or two favourite locations. And Perfect Blend is one of them. ** Perfect Blend ** Opening in 2008 Perfect Blend is a chameleon, it changes it atmosphere throughout the day very cleverly, from café to restaurant and then to a social bar. The second to be opened of its kind in London it really does stand out from...

izzoh 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Perfect Blend Café, London

Cafe Nero

Advantages: Authentic Coffee, Clean, tidy premises, 1st class ambience and atmosphere
Disadvantages: Food range is not so great value.

...Caffe Nero is a leading Coffee store Retail Outlet located in many high street, town center, and Airport Lounge venues across England, wales and Scotland. The company sells, Coffee as its main product. Also they stock Tea, cold refreshments, panini sandwiches, cookies, crisps, Chocolates, cakes, and sweets. What I find that makes cafe nero different to other coffee Retail Outlet's is almost a combination of excellent Coffee, and a high standard of Customer Service. The Music in the background of the store is subtle and light. This allows people to read a newspaper, to socialise with friends, family, or to enjoy a relaxing cup of Coffee in relative peace and quiet. The atmosphere is what makes caffe nero a pleasant and welcoming place to visit. The staff seem to be team organised. I have seen Table's been cleared...

costas1234 04.01.2008 (29.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Café Nero (London)

My Ciao'ing and intro to Ciao cafe

Advantages: quite fun and easy to write
Disadvantages: you tell me!

...No messing, as they say in Wales, here goes: i. Full name - I've given enough away already, you can guess the rest. ii. Ciao Username: flickpugh iii. Date you joined the Ciao community: Officially in October 2002 when I was in a brief but blissful period of unemployment. I didn?t write a review for nearly six months though and it was so bad I didn?t try again to a few weeks ago. Am quite hooked now, but then I have quite a short attention span so we?ll see ? iv. Why did you join Ciao? Something to do. v. Are you a member of any other review sites? No, one is enough to be getting on with I think. vi. Reviews written to date Not many yet - 9, plus this one which doesn't really count cos I'm not reviewing anything apart from Ciao in a roundabout way I guess. vii. How many ops/ reviews do you write in...

flickpugh 19.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of My Ciao'ing

The Sublime to the Ridiculous - Café Craziness

Advantages: The World is Your Shellfish
Disadvantages: The Shellfish is Your World

...It is easy to forget, here in the warm atmosphere of the Café, with the virtual comfy chairs and hot coffee, that Ciao is, primarily, a money-making enterprise. Ciao defines itself (in the section of the help pages for community members and potential members) as "a multi-million-strong online community that critically reviews and rates millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers." It is (aside from earning revenue through advertising) a site to aid the consumer when looking to purchase a product or service. However, Ciao has also developed a 'community'. We are a group of people who have, to a greater or lesser degree, got to know each other. We are like a little virtual town - we have adults and young people, northerners and southerners, men and women, and folks from not only Britain, but from Europe...

mattygroves 14.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Are Ciao Exercising Any Editorial Control Over The Café?

CIAO!!!!

Advantages: fun, meeting new people, earning money, improving your writing and reading
Disadvantages: the abuse which takes place, ciao addiction!

.... - The Ciao Cafe - This is one of my favourite parts of the site, members can write reviews about just about anything they want! It is a place where people can share poetry, stories and even share things about themselves and their hobbies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guestbooks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Using Public Guestbooks Each Ciao member has a public guestbook where other members can leave them messages. Guestbooks are a good place to just have a chat. A members public guestbook can be read by any other member and a message is sent simply by typing it in the box and pressing send! - Using Private Guestbooks Private guestbooks are where you can leave a message to a member but only the member will be able to see it and it will remain hidden from other members. This is ideal for sending messages which are...

ilusvm 02.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of ciao.co.uk

Ciao

Advantages: friendly members and some interesting reading
Disadvantages: badly run site with many gremlins on board

...I have been a member of this rather irritating site since Hannibal used elephant to cross the Alps? I say irritating because 70% of the time I go on the site the gremlins are ahead of me and are munching away through the system, like tonight for example, I can not get to publish a rather splendid (IMO) review that I have written because the site won't let anyone publish anything. The site in general is like dooyoo, offering rewards for opinions, the difference is that Ciao ask you to fill in surveys which they send to your registered e-mail address. Sadly, most of these surveys are asking too much for a pittance of pay? for example, a thirty minute survey offering a 'reward' of 10p?.what's all that about?? It is easy to join ciao, as it is for most similar sites, but the rewards are pitiful in relation to ..lets say Dooyoo...

blissman70 21.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of ciao.co.uk

~ CIAO ~

Advantages: Good earnings, Nice layout, Easy to find what you want.
Disadvantages: Product suggestion, Other members not rating back, Ciao gremlins!

...CIAO Just thought i would write a quick review on the site. Ciao is a price comparison site which enables you as you all know to write reviews and see the prices for products. It offers peoples opinions on products to recommend them. The reviews are set out into newest reviews, which show you all the reviews written last. The idea is to read and rates others and to make money giving your opinion. Ciao is a European based site even though many other nationalities try to join. The UK site has been around for many years and talking to other members they have said it has changed several times. I first heard of Ciao from people at school. Many people were talking about it and I didn?t really take much notice to begin with. After finding out that you can gain some money I decided to have a go. I remember when I first...

Stephensj1995 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of ciao.co.uk

The Tram Cafe

Advantages: Unique, cheap, excellent location
Disadvantages: None

...Whilst on holiday in Prague myself and my girlfriend were wondering back to our apartment after a day of sight seeing and we came across the Tram Café in Wenceslas Square. We decided to pop in for a quick drink and warm ourselves up. The Tram Café. The Tram Café is situated in the far end of Wenceslas Square in the City of Prague. Wenceslas Square is one of the major tourist attractions in Prague and is marked on every map so finding this unusual café shouldn't be too hard, although we literally stumbled across it by accident on our walk home. The Trams which make up the Tram Café were are trams that were once in use within the City of Prague. Tram number 11 used to operate at the Vaclavska Square from the beginning of the 20th century up until 1974. The motor tram car number 2077 was made in 1927 in Prague and was first used...

Jamie73 28.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Cafe Tramvaj 11, Prague, Czech Republic