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...Online user reviews have been around over a decade. In 1995, Amazon.com began offering its visitors the ability to post reviews on available books, setting in motion a new phenomenon where everyone can easily become a critic. Other sites quickly followed, expanding reviews into music, products and services. Some of those sites, like TripAdvisor, which is dedicated to user hotel reviews, are demonstrating that this new wave of consumer empowerment is now mainstream...
...Online review activity has become so popular that several new sites have appeared that center around the consumer-empowered voice. Yelp.com, a new social network, joins user reviews with the ability to network, rate and share critiques. Still in its growth phase, Yelp reviews are becoming popular in major metropolitan areas. Visits to the site have grown over 340% in the last year. Based on the search terms sending visitors to Yelp, reviews are sought on topics ranging from restaurants and bars to furniture stores, doctors, dentists and even reviews on "piercing parlors" and "bay area pot clubs...
...quest for perfect information, the most important and most often asked question is how trustworthy are user reviews? A quick scan of reviews on various sites reveals that the majority of entries appear to be honest and insightful critiques, while others seem misguided and, in the worst case, appear to be textual vendettas or shill assessments posted by biased reviewers. But as is the case with any information posted with anonymity, veracity and the risk of misinformation are always in question. Caveat emptor rules apply...
...lovelorn college students with the newly-formed acquaintances that they may want to turn into something more.ON YOUR RADARCheck My Radar’s say that their social networking site provides a different service than similar sites such as Facebook and MySpace by focusing the networking activities of its users on romance—a synergistic approach Tanjeloff and Galkowski say will set it apart from conventional dating Web sites.“Dating sites are trying to find love where you have not looked,” says Tanjeloff, but Check My Radar will only facilitate relationships between people...
Even worse, a left at a red light is not only grossly illegal and potentially lethal to pedestrians, but it may also metallically entangle you with a fellow road user. Even if you have no sense of self-preservation, the ensuing gaskets blown would doubtless be annoyingly disruptive to us students in the library...