For those having trouble picking out holiday gifts, the new application Giftly offers the possibility of gift cards from any one of the more than two million businesses currently listed on Yelp.

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It’s 5 o’clock somewhere: Who’s ready for a drink? Want some company but don’t know which bar or restaurant you want to go to yet? Then check out Happy Hour Finder. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone can post a review of a restaurant or product online, and the anonymity of the web makes for ample opportunity for those reviews to be less than truthful, whether to surreptitiously promote the subject of the review, or to maliciously attack it.

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Facebook’s brand effectiveness outranks all other social media’s branding efforts, according Brand Keys’ Customer Loyalty Index.
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Today Yelp launched their implementation of Facebook Connect to enable users to share reviews with their friends on Facebook. After you post your review on Yelp, you are prompted to post it to your feed. That’s about the extent of the service but it’s definitely another large site to integrate with Connect. Aardvark, Etsy, oDesk, The Washington Post, and many more have also implemented Connect in recent weeks.
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