The feature that's most driving this evolution is Explore, a simple, well-designed tool that enables you to find nearby restaurants, bars, and other venues recommended by friends and tastemakers.READ MORE›
Crowd-sourcing review site Yelp went public this morning. Shares are up 66% so far. As we figure out how sustainable that is, let's take a peek back at Yelp's innovation, including how it came to market.READ MORE›
Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good bet.READ MORE›
Using the Internet as a powerful tool to connect consumers with businesses that use local ingredients and--maybe more importantly--showing businesses the best places to source those local ingredients.READ MORE›
You've created your dream company. It's humming along. Then someone offers you $100 million for it. Could you turn it down? What about $1 billion? These entrepreneurs did.READ MORE›
According to a 2010 survey by Pew Research Center, 28% of Americans don’t know any of their neighbors by name, and only 9% communicate with them via email. Those unfriendly statistics are something startup Nextdoor.com hopes to change.READ MORE›
Earlier this year, Digg founder Kevin Rose announced he was launching a new incubator, called Milk, to develop mobile apps. Today, at Web 2.0, he introduced the first of those, Oink, which he described as a tool that lets people ...READ MORE›
Location, location, location is back in vogue, but not just for real estate junkies. The smartphone has ushered in a new economy. I turn on my smartphone and I expect magic to happen and the world around me to come alive with ...READ MORE›
"I don't think of it as mobile location, I think of it as a content problem. How can you get access to all the information that helps you point that consumer in the right direction?" says Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.READ MORE›
WE TRIED changing our email address, but when Internet guru Alex Blagg of BajillionHits.biz heard we were doing a special section on networks, he started friending us across every social network, insisting that we include his list of Hot New Social Media Bizwords 2.0.READ MORE›
Couch-surfing is only the beginning, says ANYA KAMENETZ. The Internet could unlock our natural impulse to share goals--and a global economy built on the kindness of strangers.READ MORE›
This is the next piece in our PATTERNS series, written by IDEO. Read more from the series here.
Sounds counterintuitive, right? In reality, powerful individualism is often what leads to strong communities. Many of the most ...READ MORE›
Tuesday November 23rd is underway folks, and there's already a bunch of tech and innovation news to get into your head before the day really starts:READ MORE›
The interwebs are alight with discussions about Facebook's new location-based checkin service Places. Among the flurry of info and debate about its value, one thing may have been overlooked: The secret ingredient of the system that may end up making Facebook a lot of money.READ MORE›
Another day, another local business finder/recommendation service, though this one's coming from a source you might not have imagined: AT&T. It's launching AT&T Buzz, which has been in private beta for a while to the public. ...READ MORE›
Yelp has found a work-around for those wicked extortion rumors (and that pesky lawsuit). In a blog
post with the no-nonsense headline "We're Increasing Transparency
and Eliminating 'Favorite Review'," Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman ...READ MORE›
Location-based social networking just got itself a tidy little mash-up. Checkin Mania uses Gowalla, Foursquare, Brightkite, and Yelp and displays all the places that the networks' users have been checkin' out. There are diddy little ...READ MORE›
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