Ryan Sholin » yelp http://ryansholin.com The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:54:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Ryan Sholin Ryan Sholin ryansholin@gmail.com no no GarageSeek Rates Mechanics, But Yelp Will Kill This Category Too – TechCrunch http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/25/garageseek-rates-mechanics-but-yelp-will-kill-this-category-too-techcrunch/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/25/garageseek-rates-mechanics-but-yelp-will-kill-this-category-too-techcrunch/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:14:04 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/25/garageseek-rates-mechanics-but-yelp-will-kill-this-category-too-techcrunch/ Some thoughts on Yelp and how many niches it can serve, how it goes about its business.

GarageSeek Rates Mechanics, But Yelp Will Kill This Category Too – TechCrunch

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/25/garageseek-rates-mechanics-but-yelp-will-kill-this-category-too-techcrunch/feed/ 0 If you can’t beat ‘em, or buy ‘em, use the API http://ryansholin.com/2007/08/05/if-you-cant-beat-em-or-buy-em-use-the-api/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/08/05/if-you-cant-beat-em-or-buy-em-use-the-api/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:21:10 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/08/05/if-you-cant-beat-em-or-buy-em-use-the-api/ Newspapers should produce amazing local databases with great maps, ratings and reviews.

A newspaper company should buy Yelp.

Yelp now has an open API. Newspapers should stop trying to develop something better, and use the API to provide users with Yelp’s functionality on their own sites, applied to their local businesses.

Apply that logic everywhere it makes sense. No need to re-invent the wheel if you can tap into a massive database for free using an API, a la Google Maps mashups.

Do it this week.

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