You need to consult a Lawyer before you go live. The thinking you are using did not work for Napster, Napster argued that they were not in control of how the users shared the content, they were just a vehicle to share it on. They lost in court, so that might be one precedent someone uses to su...
You need to build trust in your vetting process, which means you actually need a good vetting process. Some ideas would be to have reviews of the potential guest from their facebook friends. Each review would have links to the reviewer's facebook profiles. Have links to the potential guest's own ...
You could probably use any Wordpress theme that had a design and feel you like. I would use a good events plugin such as Calendarize It. That plugin makes it easy to set up a nice calendar of events. You can make specific calendars for each country, category and city. They could view them all on ...
You're describing the problem, it's setting, and your platform very vaguely. But from general principles, it's best to charge in the least noticeable way possible, so a % of the seller's commission would be the best method. That way it's invisible until a sale comes through, and even then, it o...
If you have not tried buddypress have a look at it and see if it can do for you what you are looking for.
This has been done many times over. You can create an RSS feed from these sources, yes.
Yes, that can definitely be a problem if you are not redirecting all of your traffic to one or the other. The easiest way to solve this is to add a simple redirect to your site's .htaccess file. Here's an example of how to redirect all non-www traffic to www: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.c...
This is more of a subscription rather than a membership. In you mind, what are the benefits of "membership" that differentiate it from a simple subscription?
Go the National Housewares Association, they publish industry information by industry sector within housewares.