Who are the people in your eBay Neighborhood

If you're the sort of person who defines yourself by the stuff you buy, has eBay got a new social network for you. The auction site has launched eBay Neighborhoods, which are basically little communities organized around specific items or classes of items. For example, the most popular neighborhood right now is Coffee Lovers, but there are about 600 neighborhoods covering everything from Stephen King to Mountain Biking.

Each neighborhood features an interactive display of content related to that community. Scroll your mouse over the pictures of iPods, bikes, or what have you and prices and other information will pop up. There's also a section where users can post comments about items or the community at large.

Previously eBay users who were craving a greater sense of interaction than "A+++ would buy again!" had to resort to eBay's old fashioned message boards. While eBay Neighborhoods serve a similar function, they're a lot prettier to look at. And more importantly, there are more product pictures on every page, which eBay is hoping will convince you to buy more stuff.

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