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The content throughout the site is created by members who share real experience in the form of articles. The articles are tagged, rated and commented on by the community to encourage the integrity and relevancy of the information created.

Refurber is like an "advice toolbox", once you have experienced the "right way" to progress your home-making you can share your thoughts and read the feedback of others in a pleasant and dedicated renovation and DIY focused environment.

Refurber has been built using Vibe Capital's proprietary "vibEngine" software, an API that supports ranked-advice communities. The super smart folks at Market United coded the vibEngine to Vibe Capital's specifications and are responsible for the cool designs you can see on Refurber and Minti.

"We are excited to launch Refurber, our second wholly-owned advice-opedia website." said Clay Cook, Co-founder and CEO of Minti. "Drawing from more than a year of user feedback and experience on the Minti site we believe our offering will satisfy the needs of home-makers around the world."

Refurber presents an impressive "mash-up" of Web 2.0 technologies (similar offerings in brackets) including:

user generated content (Wikipedia)
social ranking of content (del.icio.us ; TripAdvisor)
photo storage ranking and tagging (Flickr)
content browsing tag clouds
free project blogs (Blogger)
user created interest groups
friends features and private lounge discussion areas (MySpace)
extensive RSS feeds (from articles to search results)
external "edge content" blog mirroring (Technorati)
detailed Question & Answer features (Yahoo! Answers), and
comprehensive search functionality across all content sources.

Unique additional features only available on vibEngine sites include:

Member ranking on participation and contributions (quality and quantity)
Member controlled reporting and administration by senior ranked members
In-build search features linked to voted quality of articles and relevance of text
Customised user watch-lists with tailored updates available on demand

All this comes in a free-to-use site open to renovators, builders and home-makers worldwide.

Vibe Capital's vibEngine platform is being licensed to other vertical sites worldwide. The first licensed partner is the niche city focused site http://www.buildinginlondon.com . Other licensed implementations of the vibEngine will be launched in the coming months.

About Vibe Capital Pty Ltd - the Advice-opedia company
Founded by internet entrepreneurs Clay Cook, Rachel Cook and Matthew Macfarlane, Vibe Capital Pty Ltd, is a privately held company with a presence in both Perth, Australia and Palo Alto, California. Vibe Capital has raised AUD$2.7MM in funding to date and holds equity stakes in strategic businesses related to its core "vibEngine" advice-opedia software. For more information visit /www.vibecapital.com

Minti®, Powered by Parents®, advice-opedia™, and Refurber™ are trade marks registered by Vibe Capital Pty Ltd. Other product names and brands appearing in this press release, such as MySpace.com, Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, blogger, del.icio.us, technorati, Yahoo! Answers and Flickr, are, or may be claimed as, trade marks of other entities.