Comments on: Yelp Now Lets Customers ‘Check In’, Spread WOM

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:07:19 +0000

Does it work on iphone 4? anyone know?

By: Foursquare According To Four Friends | Critical Mass PR

Foursquare According To Four Friends | Critical Mass PR — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:01:22 +0000

[...] course we already have apps like Urban Spoon and Yelp (which now also lets users “check in“) for much of this, so how can tools like foursquare and Gowalla build upon the utility of [...]

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:28:17 +0000

Lisa: Jinx!

I wrote the following comment:

“Interesting stuff going around in the “location” services. You are talking about Yelp. I heard that they now have a service similar to geolocation tool like Gowalla and Foursquare.”

http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/01/place-pages-features.html#comment-698722

I think that Yelp has increased its credibility with this new feature. The reviews could now be “verified”. You could check if the reviewer really has checked-in at the location he / she is reviewing.

If you want to listen to podcasts about Gowalla and Foursquare, go to Leo Laporte’s site Twit.tv (net@night).

By: Robert Brady

Robert Brady — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:55 +0000

At saw a headline about this yesterday and figured it was just Yelp putting a warning shot across the bow of Foursquare. However, with the number of Yelp users this looks a lot more like Foursquare was hit pretty hard and may start taking on water. Ouch!

PS Not to mention that Yelp actually has an app for my BB Storm while Foursquare just makes me use the site.