Items tagged with Yelp
Some of the worst ideas are those that purport to solve a problem that doesn't exist. A potential app called "Peeple" might be even worse. Described as "Yelp for humans," the unreleased Peeple app initially aimed to give users to the ability to rate fellow human beings on a scale of 1 to 5 and post reviews, good or bad. It's a horrible idea, and if signers of a Care2 petition have their way, Peeple will never be released. The Care2 petition (rightfully) argues that "people aren't numbers" and demands an end to the release of the Peeple app. It currently has over 10,200 virtual signatures, though whether it can gain enough support by the app's proposed November 2015 launch to sway Peeple's creators...
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Back in April, the EU hit Google with antitrust charges for alleged favoritism it gives its own services in search results. Being that Google is so dominant in the search game, this is a big deal to companies that feel that it's placing its inferior services above their own. Yelp is one of those companies, and one that's a complainant in this antitrust charge. It decided to go a bit further than the others though, and commission well-respected Professor of Law Tim Wu to investigate things further. With the help of a Yelp-produced browser plugin, Wu discovered that if search results were skewed to favor Yelp rather than Google+, users would be more apt to click on the...
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Californians who want to complain on Yelp about a bad experience dealing with a business are free to do so without fear of being fined. That wasn't always the case -- businesses have gotten into the dubious habit of inserting non-disparagement clauses into contracts to prevent peeved customers from leaving a negative online review, but such practice is now outlawed thanks to what's known as the "Yelp Bill." The official name is Assembly Bill 2365, but that's a bit boring, don't you think? Whatever -- Shakespeare taught us that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and in this case, the thorny bill prohibits businesses from pricking customers with sometimes hefty fines for writing negative...
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Slowly but surely, Amazon is inserting itself into every part of our daily lives. The site is already a terrific place to buy products of every kind, and Amazon has also made forays into grocery home deliveries, delivery by robot helicopter, and local deals, but now a report indicates that Amazon is planning to roll out a local services marketplace, too. According to Reuters’ unnamed sources, Amazon wants to become a middleman between consumers and those providing services--”anything from babysitters to handymen to birthday clowns”--not completely unlike what Yelp and Angie’s List offer. The service would start in a single market and expand from there, assuming demand...
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It's always a pain in the rear when a friend sends you a link to a photo or video when you're in the middle of doing something and you don't want to take the time out to open the link in a new tab.Google decided the pain was too great to force those using Gmail to have to do that one moment longer, and users now can get previews for YouTube videos, Picasa or Flickr pictures or Yelp ratings right there in your e-mail.In Google Labs, you can enable the previews for any or all of the services in your e-mail. For YouTube, you'll be able to watch entire videos without leaving your Gmail. Just click play, and it'll run right through without opening a new tab or going to YouTube.E-mails with Picasa...
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