Advantages: its popular with certain ages groups, easy to use
Disadvantages: popularity means abusers+facebook strong competition

...---history and intro to hi5------ Hi5 is the 11th most popular website in the world, myspace and orkut.com being the only 2 social networking sites to be more popular. hi5 was founded by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO hi5 basically allows you to create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. hi5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users According to hi5 they receive over 18 million unique users per month!!! and have over 50 million members, From Miami to Mumbai, Lima to Lisbon, Sydney to San Francisco, 'hi5 is the place where young people come to stay in touch with friends, meet new people, create & explore... Read review

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Advantages: Good site
Disadvantages: no drawing board

...HI5 is another social networking website which has all the features like all the social networking sites. I used this site as my friend told me to use it i noticed how many random messages and requests i was getting i joined in 2005 and i noticed the sites popurality. I even got people from my home town messaging me it was freaky at first but then it got ok i decided to delete my HI5 with all the weird people adding and i had seen profiles with the same pictures. Features Add Video to your profile Groups for all towns nearly Add more than 20 Pictures to your profile Add many friends as you want You can add a music player to your profile HI5 is a popular website used by a lot of people now a days with all the comment features like all the social website. The only thing HI5 does not offer is drawing on others profiles like Facebook does... Read review

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Advantages: Good Children Entertainment With Lots Of Movement
Disadvantages: Don't get To Watch Any Adult TV Until Bedtime!

...It's a Hi 5 Christmas About Hi 5 -------------- Hi 5 was originally dreamed up by Helena Harris & Posie Graeme-Evans, they had the idea that children needed to be re introduced to the fun in excercise and music. They held auditions and decided on 3 girls and 2 boys to make up Hi 5, these are: Kathleen De Leon Nathan Foley Tim Harding Kellie Hoggart Charli Robinson Now each member encorages children in different ways, kathleen has her own corner where she makes things and a small furry animal that she never sees called "jup jup" keeps pinching the items she's using so she has to use her imagination and think up new ways to make her creation. Tim is big on musical instruments and writes his own songs, Charli does exercise, etc. But each member of the team sings, either on their own, in groups or altogether. The DVD... Read review

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Advantages: Great money saver
Disadvantages: Restaurants not in all areas

...'t even have to do it that regularly to get the benefit, I would definately recommend a Hi Life card. The main office is based at 5 Hardhorn Road, Poulton, telephone number 01253 884477 if you would like more information, they don't seem to have a website. So don't waste any more time - or money - if you eat out get a Hi LIfe card.... Read review

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Advantages: Keeps the Kids Entertained and Active
Disadvantages: Can't get kids away from TV

...My son went through a stage where Hi 5 were the best thing since sliced bread, if we were going on a long journey and Mum just couldn't bear anymore The Santa Clause (1 or 2) then Hi 5 would be put in the portable DVD player and off we would go. About Hi 5 -------------- Hi 5 was originally dreamed up by Helena Harris & Posie Graeme-Evans, they had the idea that children needed to be re introduced to the fun in excercise and music. They held auditions and decided on 3 girls and 2 boys to make up Hi 5, these are: Kathleen De Leon Nathan Foley Tim Harding Kellie Hoggart Charli Robinson Now each member encorages children in different ways, kathleen has her own corner where she makes things and a small furry animal that she never sees called "jup jup" keeps pinching the items she's using so she has to use her imagination and think up... Read review

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Advantages: great fun up beat film
Disadvantages: quite short, less then an hour long.

...My kids are aged 4 and 6 and they love Hi 5. I have to admit I don't mind it either. you know how some of the kids TV shows drive you insane (I banned them form watching telly tubbies when they were younger because I found it so irritating!) well Hi 5 isn't like that, its really up beat they are always singing and dancing and you find yourself singing along with out realising. (Probably shouldn't admit that!) There are 5 members of Hi 5 Kelly, Kathleen, Charlie, Nathan and Tim. They sing, dance dress up and tell stories which my girls love. There are also two puppets on the show but here names escape me right now. The presenters speak to the children as if they are their friends, in a non patronising way making the kids feel comfortable, they dress in bright colours and the girls have bright ribbons and decorations in their hair... Read review

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Advantages: Find Old Friends, Make New Ones, Easily Accesible and Useable
Disadvantages: Needs More People Taking An Interest

...Hi5.com is a lot like 'Friends Reunited' and other sites like that as its sole purpose it to reunite but to do this it needs a lot of members and sadly, i dont think it has enough, yet. It has the potential to be one of the best sites of it's kind as it is simple to navigate around it and everything is very easy to achieve on it. This is profitable for the site because i assume the main people who use it will be middle-aged and in my experience (family etc) many people's main use of the internet is to find old friends on sites such as this one. For example my Nan has never used a computer in her life and so she is, basically, clueless, but she was introduced to hi5.com by a friend and now they have found 2 of their old school friends on it. She can use the site effectively but any other site, she's useless. Not for my Nan but a good... Read review

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Advantages: cheap at first glance
Disadvantages: not really cheap, overall insufficient product & service quality

...Some writers have commended the Holiday Inn for its excellent service at very reasonable prices. A look behind the scenes of the brand policy, products and pricing shows however a very different picture. Holiday Inn is in fact often more expensive than the competition and provides a low degree of service for the price. The problem with the perception of HI is that most people only know their lowprice HI Express chain and have little to say about HI's other brands and products. All five opinions posted on HI before mine only discuss the merits of HI Express, but that's just one of four HI brands. That's also Ciao's mistake, they should have created a category for each brand/chain separately. The Holiday Inn Group consists of four brands of Hotels: ~ the classic Holiday Inn Hotels, 4-5 Stars ~ the upmarket Holiday Inn Crown Plaza Hotels... Read review

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Advantages: GREAT SOUND QUALITY AND A HUGE SOUND THAT 'ILL MAKE THE FLOOR ROCK
Disadvantages: A FAIR OLD PRICE BUT DEFINATELY WORTH IT

...THE DENON PMA - 350 INTEREGRATED AMPLIFIER IS A GREAT CHOICE FOR BOTH IT'S SOUND QUALITY AND ITS HUGE POWER THAT WILL MAKE THE FLOOR SHAKE.DENON ARE A VERY RELIABLE WELL KNOWN BRAND OF AMPS AND ARE GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY.THIS AMP WILL WOFK WELL WITH MOST C.D AND TAPE PLAYERS AND ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPEAKERS.THIS PARTICULAR AMP IS VERY REGULAR AND CAN BE PURCHASED IN ALMOST ANY MUSIC HI-FI SHOP.NOT ONLY DO I RATE THIS AMP VERY HIGHLY BUT SO DO THE MAGASINE 'WHAT HI-FI' AND THEY GIVE IT A WOPPING 5 OUT OF 5.SO IF YOU ARE LOKKING FOR A GOOD AMP BUT NOT LOOKING TO SPEND TOO MUCH THEN THIS ONE IS A GREAT CHOICE.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: None for the price

...This is just budget cable I use for connecting my mp3 player to my home hi-fi setup, I also use this cable for connecting my laptop to my hi fi. It is basically a mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm - male on the one end - plugs into your headphone socket in your laptop for instance, and on the other end has 2 x RCA - male connectors, which plug into a normal Hi-fi around the back, left and right channel. This is a standard connection on both ends, nothing special, but works well everytime. The cable is 5m long, made from the usual black plastic, with rubberised ends to stop the cable from snapping and degrading on the pressure points, the cable I have takes a lot of abuse on the ends and has been reliable for a long time. Sound quality is pretty good, plenty good enough for most audio poeple, but not going to be good enough for when you have... Read review

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