January 2010
7 posts
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“I’m a very big fan of Foursquare and both you gentlemen, but Yelp gets social,...”
– YelpSquare | Jon Steinberg
Rafer sez:
Specifically, Yelp won’t spend the goodwill with their users to make them act in a way that is unnatural on Yelp. When you force users to act in a new, inorganic way, you lose some of them. The more unnatural the act, the greater the leakage. For Foursquare,...
Help Haiti: the social web as a force for good.
(from Get Satisfaction)
As a community-minded organization, we’re thinking about all the ways that the social web, from mobile phones to Facebook can and are making a difference to people suffering from teh calamitous earthquake in Haiti. The fastest, most direct way to help is to text “HAITI” to “90999” to give $10 directly to the Red Cross via your mobile. Read...
