<![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics]]> she's right. selling ads is a totally iffy business model. particularly when slighted restaurants are dying to buy them and run them against more popular competitors. wtf? i agree yelp needs to break out in other cities the way it has in sf, but they have a pretty well defined a business model if they do. it's pretty much paid search as applied to the yellow pages. duh.

valleychick

]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics]]> I'm a recent Yelp convert, living in the Bay Area ...

Sure all of this stuff has problems, and until my browser gets anti-shilling extensions I'll have to read the reviews. I will say that if you read the reviews by the helpful scoring method it bears out better fruit, a la Slashdot.

Littlebitsofpaper

]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics]]> ah, that's true. my mistake. I forgot they use virtual dollars in web 2.0.

MrMedia

]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics]]> I think she knows what bandwidth is. Her site is totally web 2.0

Daikana

]]> <![CDATA["San Francisco" trashes Yelp -- and its own ethics]]> This writer really knows her stuff! I love this comment. Does she know what bandwidth is you think?

"YouTube has revolutionized how people share digital media. And each of these sites costs so little to run that they all made serious money quickly. "

MrMedia

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