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I stumbled upon this today while researching stuff for work.
Anyone actually use it?? What's the deal?
Anyone actually use it?? What's the deal?
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Re: Yelp
Sat, December 24, 2005 - 7:27 AMAt first glance it looks like a REVIEW-based Social Network Site, which is firmly based in the USA. But I live in Europe so......... NEXT! -
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Re: Yelp
Sat, December 24, 2005 - 7:55 AMYeah, for you it wouldn't work.
I was sorta impressed that it had a lot of reviews from my neighborhood. It was nice that it wasn't so strictly SF centric.
It looks like the "social" part of it is pretty awkward though so I was curious if anyone had actually tested it. -
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Re: Yelp
Tue, December 27, 2005 - 6:37 PMI'm on it now and like what they've done w/the reviews. Since that's what they're really focused on they've succeeded in doing a nice job there and are trying to drive the social aspects around that. Not so sure that the social aspects work as well as the pure review part of their service. I also like that they make sure that addresses are properly entered in so the place can actually be found. If an uncertain address and name is entered they have it go through a manual process to authenticate. Too often on Tribe, people don't bother putting an address, phone # or web site URL so they end recommending something that now takes more research to find. -
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Tue, December 27, 2005 - 6:41 PMIt looks to me like the addresses are put in there by Yelp, not the users. I know what you mean. I thought the same thing initially that if someone uses a slightly different name or misspells then you would end up with duplicates.
Doesn't look like they do it that way.
The social stuff seems completely under emphasized. -
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Re: Yelp
Tue, December 27, 2005 - 6:43 PMhaven't used it much yet, but they reminded me of Vic's Chaat house. Yummm.
And the reviews seem right on. If a place has more than one or two reviews, it seems like you can get a pretty accurate sense of the place.
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Re: Yelp
Tue, December 27, 2005 - 9:23 PMI've been talking to them about the possibility of enabling Yelp reviews/recommendations on Tribe and allow Tribe members who want to use Yelp to leverage their connections there. There are some practical matters that make this challenging but it seems that if this could be worked out it might bring the best of both worlds. I really don't want to have to convince all my Tribe friends to now also join Yelp. -
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Re: Yelp
Tue, December 27, 2005 - 9:30 PMThat would be a really nice symbiotic relationship.
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Re: Yelp
Tue, December 27, 2005 - 12:27 PM
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Re: Yelp
Thu, December 29, 2005 - 7:38 PMI tried to smash something like this together using joomla and google maps for a specific audience. Users write a review, put in an address, and we're off to the races. If only I was a coder or had $ or altruistic coder friends or whatever... In any case, Yelp might be more handy if people can input addresses, etc., and also if people could form groups around certain topics and thus create community-specific mash up/reviews.
Fyi, it looks like some kids up in NY, or that area, created maptastic for a school project and then jumped on it. It's an easy concept that could easily take advantage of community concepts, but the only drawback is they went hard-coded with it before developing these things. I'm sure they're aware of them, but they can't re-tool so easily now, it seems. We'll see.
Does anyone know of an open source platform similar to maptastic? The community-based CMS people (drupal, phpnuke, joomla, etc) are slowly getting there, but I haven't been able to find something quite like maptastic.
Peace
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Re: Yelp
Thu, March 12, 2009 - 12:45 PM1115 reviews in 4 years and I like it... but hate it.
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