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What About Yelp? In today's internet-dominated world, online reviews have become an integral part of our decision-making process, whether it's choosing a restaurant, booking a hotel, or buying a product. Among the many platforms available, Yelp has emerged as a popular and influential website when it comes to sharing customer experiences and opinions. With millions of reviews covering various businesses, Yelp has amassed a considerable user base, making it a valuable resource for consumers and businesses alike. However, like any other platform, Yelp is not without its controversies and challenges. Over the years, several concerns have been raised regarding the legitimacy and reliability of Yelp reviews. This raises the question: What about Yelp? One significant concern is the authenticity of reviews on the platform. As Yelp's popularity grew, so did the temptation for businesses to manipulate their ratings by posting fake reviews or soliciting positive reviews from friends, family, or even paying for them. This unethical practice not only misleads consumers but also undermines the credibility and usefulness of Yelp as a reliable source of information. To address this issue, Yelp has implemented various measures to combat fake reviews. They use sophisticated algorithms and automated systems to filter out suspicious content, including reviews that may be biased, suspicious, or posted by the same IP address. Additionally, they encourage users to report fraudulent reviews and have a team of human moderators who manually review flagged content. Despite these efforts, it remains challenging to completely eliminate fake reviews, as some may still slip through the cracks. Another concern related to Yelp is the impact that negative reviews can have on businesses. While negative reviews can alert consumers to potential issues or problems, they can also harm a business's online reputation and ultimately affect their success. Some businesses have accused Yelp of ext

The world's leading online scheduling tool, Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basic service is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.

A good tool to schedule your meetings

Schedule an event ... ... such as a board meeting, business lunch, conference call, family reunion, movie night, or any other group event.

iCoordinator is a web-based collaboration tool that can act as the central nervous system of your business, assisting you to collaborate easily, manage efficiently and achieve higher productivity.

The project management and collaboration tool for freelancers and small businesses.

"The new Azure Preview portal: Bringing it all together at DevOps speed This Preview portal is a big step forward in the journey toward integrated DevOps tools, technologies, and cloud services. See how you can deliver and scale business-ready apps for every platform more easily and rapidly-using what you already know and whatever toolset you like most."

Beename is your personal online business card. It is a new way of sharing your personal info among friends and business partners with easy to remember domain name address like YourName.com. This becomes customized certificate of your online identity.

Socialtext accelerates business performance by making it easier for employees to find the colleagues and information they need to solve challenges new and old. By simplifying people's ability to share expertise, ideas and corporate data, Socialtext removes knowledge silos that have traditionally hampered companies' ability to respond to change and serve customers efficiently. With Socialtext, people collaborate openly around key business processes in a secure, internal environment, and work together to drive new business opportunities.

The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making.

Connect your site to all major platforms like Facebook for Websites and Twitter. Get single sign-in, easy form fill, account linking, our Invite Plugin Share - Drive referral traffic with dynamic sharing plugins.Engage - Add features with social context to increase time spent with your site.Analyze - Apply insight and automation tools to socially optimize your online business.

Sharing presentation slides over internet increases your reach many times, but it dilutes your message. You loose the effectiveness of your presentation by taking Yourself out of the presentation and just sharing slides. 9Slides is a powerful communication tool, which allows users to create unique online experience using existing presentation videos and slides.

Search your cloud apps in style. sign upRefinder is a tool to find the data and activities of your team. It integrates cloud apps like Dropbox, Twitter, and Google Docs.

Our vision for Streak is clear: give you the right tools directly in your Inbox. With today's launch of Heads Up we're making a big jump in bringing that vision to reality. Similar to Gmail's multiple inboxes, Heads Up lets you see snapshots of your pipelines directly in your inbox.

The cross-platform collaboration solution that works the way you do. PC or Mac. iPad or iPhone. Android or BlackBerry. If you have a web browser, you have access to your content. Inside or outside your firewall, you can find the the tools, files and people you need to get work done.

Localley is a tool that broadens the functionality of Facebook Places feature by letting you check in various places using a date and time in the future. Of course it is disappointing when you realize that you and a friend were at the same place (a live show or a movie theatre maybe) but missed a chance of meeting there because you had no idea of each other's presence in this very place. This is the problem solved by Facebook Places: it lets you show your friends where you currently are and also see who is nearby at this very moment. Localley goes one step further: we eliminate the disappointment that is inevitable when you find out you missed an event you really wanted to attend only because you had no one to go with - and later found out that some friends were at this very event and you could easily join them. Localley lets you share your plans to go somewhere with your friends and even invite them to join you - which will quickly solve a problem of a company.

Are you ready to finally get out of credit card debt? ReadyForZero is a site that lets you track your credit card debt, and make and follow a plan to eliminate it. It's not a "debt negotiation" or "debt settlement" service. It's a tool that helps you get control of your debt.

Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support.

The Buddy Media Platform empowers brands to manage Facebook Pages and engage fans! The world's best brands use our tools to manage and grow their social media.

Introducing Podio, the work platform. Podio is a work platform with the ambition to change how we all work. We are developing a new and radical take on work tools: you build it yourself.