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...proved himself over a long period. You know what he likes or dislikes. You get him. Maybe you don't always agree; but when you're looking at getting a babysitter and maybe dropping three bills on dinner, you need to minimize risk. For that, the user reviews on Citysearch or Yelp are beyond useless - they're faceless and contradictory - and the same goes for blogs. (Blogs at least sometimes take pictures.) So there, in that whirlwind of trends and fad ingredients and hype and backlash, are a few immense ancient trees, with sturdy roots and massive trunks...
...share information about local businesses in 25 major cities. Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, read and write about restaurants, stores and services. Yelp's founders say they were inspired by their frustration in trying to find good doctor recommendations online. Their idea was to improve on existing tools like Citysearch, which Yelp's founders call...
...people know the difference between a great idea and a great business model as intimately as Gross. As the founder of Idealab, the technology incubator, Gross has become a multimillionaire by funding such Internet start-ups as CitySearch, now owned by Ticketmaster, and Overture Services, the Web marketing firm that Yahoo! bought in 2003 for $1.6 billion. Idealab productions that, painfully, seemed great at the time--Petsmart.com and eToys.com- failed in two of the most dramatic flameouts in the dot-bomb collapse...
Nominated by the Boston Citysearch website for Best Sports Bar in Boston, T’s has been open almost 20 years and continues to attract college students with cheap beer, burgers and fries. Marisel C. Garrido, who has worked at the bar for five years, enjoys the pseudo-stardom the setup provides—there’s a big screen TV and the singers are on stage...
...contrast, a relative upstart with $5.4 billion in annual revenue, increasingly is focused on online commerce--and its travel portion generates 31% of revenue and 61% of operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing...