Comments on: Where Yelp! needs help http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2006/09/21/where-yelp-needs-help/ A Developer with too little time. Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:38:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: evbart http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2006/09/21/where-yelp-needs-help/comment-page-1/#comment-487 evbart Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:33:50 +0000 http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2006/09/21/where-yelp-needs-help/#comment-487 Great post again! I agree on almost all points. Yelp on the whole is a great concept, as I am always looking for a new way to discover new places. The problem is execution. I feel the mapping component is not all that up to par, and I don't know how much I value information from people I don't trust! <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/between_popular.html" rel="nofollow">Heres</a> a post about how rss feeds really need a system that places more weight on recommendations by people that the user already trusts. In the end its the same concept here for Yelp. I need to be able to give preferences to the people that a trust, and the group at large needs to be able to pick out the reviewers that are trustyworthy considering your existing tastes. The other issue that's inherant with Yelp, or any other service that requires "rantings", is that each person uses the rating system a different way. In a great article <a href="http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/08/using_5star_rat.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> Christopher Allen discusses the ins and outs of 5 star rating systems. Other sites like netflix suffer from the same problems. Anyway, hope discussions like this help come up with better ways to solve these problems. The web2.0 push behind social technologies is great, but not if it just helps push a wider variety of junk information in your direction. Great post again! I agree on almost all points. Yelp on the whole is a great concept, as I am always looking for a new way to discover new places. The problem is execution. I feel the mapping component is not all that up to par, and I don’t know how much I value information from people I don’t trust!

Heres a post about how rss feeds really need a system that places more weight on recommendations by people that the user already trusts. In the end its the same concept here for Yelp. I need to be able to give preferences to the people that a trust, and the group at large needs to be able to pick out the reviewers that are trustyworthy considering your existing tastes.

The other issue that’s inherant with Yelp, or any other service that requires “rantings”, is that each person uses the rating system a different way. In a great article here Christopher Allen discusses the ins and outs of 5 star rating systems. Other sites like netflix suffer from the same problems.

Anyway, hope discussions like this help come up with better ways to solve these problems. The web2.0 push behind social technologies is great, but not if it just helps push a wider variety of junk information in your direction.

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