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Why Not To Use Yelp

February 19, 2009

Yelp, the massively popular, ‘cult’ driven community built around local business reviews and recommendations has hit another bump in the negative PR road. Yelp was first criticized after their launch after it was discovered their own employees were writing fake reviews to fill the site without ever attending the business. Since then, there has been [...]

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Boomerator Gets The Pink Unicorn Award For Ridiculous Idea

October 29, 2008

Bommerator is a Yahoo Answers type site aimed at the baby boomer crowd (44-62)
@ Boomerator. The chances of this succeeding on its own are slim to nil.
Meet Eons.com, a social network for baby boomers that is slowly starting to fail.
Its possible they may have a home for this service, so move quick and try and [...]

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Update: Jimmy Wales NOT Failing His Attempt At ‘For Profit’ Business

October 21, 2008

Wikia is letting go 30% of its current 43-person workforce that work on the ‘for profit’ Wikia Search and Wiki software projects.
The revenue nor traffic is there yet to support Jimmy Wale’s attempt to make money on a project outside of donations.
The company has raised $14M to date from Marc Andreessen, Joi Ito, and Ron [...]

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WikiInvest Here To Save The Day? Doesn’t Sound Like It

October 9, 2008

Wikinvest Wire takes high traffic financial blogs and syndicates their headlines across a network of related WikiInvest articles, other blog posts, and potentially mainstream media sites writing on similar topics.
WikiInvest is the Wikipedia for financial news, giving readers an in depth look at topics and news not found in everyday mainstream financial sources.
With their ‘blogwire’, [...]

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Should Facebook Buy Yahoo Answers. Here’s Why

September 24, 2008

Yahoo is shopping for a buyer for Yahoo Answers
The site commands 150m monthly uniques and 1.3b page views, a 67% increase over last year.
The problems associated with finding a buyer are all the dead links that would happen if the site we’re to change names as well as the Yahoo email tied into the membership.
If [...]

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