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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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Windows Live Pulls a Teenage Werewolf, Turns Into Social Network Overnight

November 13, 2008

Home.Live.com
As of last night, Microsoft’s Live.com is now a full blown social network in addition to a search engine.
In conjunction, Windows Live Photos and Windows Live People have both been launched.
Users are automatically ‘friends’ with all of their contacts on Windows Live Messenger (#1 messaging service worldwide with 268 million users vs Yahoo’s 116m).
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Yahoo Deserves A Second Chance At Search…Launches Sympathy Ads | tinyCrunch

October 14, 2008

It has been hard not to notice efforts from Yahoo Search in the news involving upgrades, developer testing sites and contests.
For the past year, they have launched Search Assist, a tool for helping users refine and expand their search queries; SearchScan, which helps users steer clear of dangerous sites; and SearchMonkey, which allows developers and [...]

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LightPole Brings Mobile Location Services Together

September 23, 2008

LightPole is a location-based services hub for mobile that provides a distribution portal for content publishers.
Users can download LightPole’s mobile app (BlackBerry, Motorola and Nokia supported + others) and access location-based services from a variety of publishers all in one place.
Current publishing partners include Trulia, Six Apart, Yahoo Fire Eagle and Yelp.
Free to use.

Made tiny [...]

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Yelp + CrunchBase = Praized Media

September 8, 2008

Praized Media lets blogs, social networks, etc. add their own version of Yelp to their site.
They have created a database of thousands of locations, restaurants and more that can be accessed via their open API.
With a few simple lines of code, publishers can ask questions to their viewers such as “What’s the best coffee in [...]

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