Yelp’s review filter is biased against first-time reviewers. This is no secret. It’s why some previous studies have shown that only nine percent of Yelp users have published just one review. People like that — hit-and-run reviewers — aren’t welcome at Yelp, no matter what they have to say. That’s all fine and good when...Read More

The apps versus mobile websites debate isn’t going away any time soon. It’s not an either-or proposition, and companies that get too focused on picking a winner may lose sight of more interesting and important subjects that apps and the mobile web have created. For instance, instead of worrying about whether mobile websites will one...Read More

AdSense Actual Earnings 50% Lower Than Estimated Earnings There was a flood of reports over the weekend by Google AdSense publishers complaining their AdSense earnings was as much as 50% lower than the estimated earnings they were projected to earn for the month of October. We have threads at WebmasterWorld … Read more on Search...Read More

Pierre Omidyar launched eBay before many of us were online, and before online shopping was a multi-billion dollar a year market. But blazing the trail of ecommerce may prove to be a much easier task for Omidyar than building paid online news properties. Yesterday, the Omidyar launched the Honolulu Civil Beat, an online news publication...Read More

Twitter sparked quite the controversy last week when news leaked that the microblogging service would possibly eliminate the need for many the third party features that have sprung up to support the service. The company has been historically open to developers building on its platform, letting third parties take care of everything from analytics to...Read More