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Web 2.0 and user-generated content are great news for growing companies, offering them the ability to harness the wisdom of crowds and stand out even without the benefit of huge marketing budgets.

If you run a consumer business, chances are pretty good a few of your customers are posting their opinions about it on the dozen or so Web sites that review local businesses across the country.

Everybody loves Yelp! For those seeking burritos in the Mission District of San Francisco, it's easy to feel awash in a sea of taquerias with little to go on for decision-making other than whether the rice has ...

Webapp EveryBlock delivers localized news from five major U.S. cities - New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Charlotte .

As summer reaches its August peak and as families get desperately creative with their staycations , I've been reminiscing about those old car trips of my youth: my mom hopelessly lost somewhere between Denver ...

Last night I finally had a chance to check out the Peacock Lounge & Gold Room , an eclectic private club in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco.

SearchMonkey, Yahoo's platform for allowing developers to improve its search results , is now providing richer results for all Yahoo searchers.

Bay area yelpers made it out to the Yelp Elite event at Cossu last evening for an exotic night of Moroccan cuisine, booty shaking Arabic beats, a daring sword swallower, hypnotic belly dancers, exotic ...

Art from Foobooz sent this over a while ago, but I misplaced the link 'til now. According to the San Francisco Chronicle , restaurant owners in the Bay Area are upset over patrons demanding free food in ...

CityVoter has partnered with SFGate to power the online newspaper's new lifestyle section.

I just LOVE this little phone, and it was particularly useful this past week while on vacation.

Just a few years ago, Yelp was used primarily by San Francisco-area residents to exchange opinions on local restaurants, bars and nightclubs.

I just LOVE this little phone, and it was particularly useful this past week while on vacation.

WHAT'S NEW AGAIN S.F. rec center ready for public perusal: Even before Saturday's reopening of the Moscone Recreation Center on Chestnut Street in San Francisco, the building was drawing five-star reviews from ...

Yelp, Inc. , the community-led local review website, today announced the launch of a native application designed for Apple iPhone that will be available today from the new Apple App Store.

When customers want to trade a good review for comped food, everyone loses. Some users of Yelp, the reader-generated review site, may be demanding comped meals from restaurateurs in exchange for good reviews , ...

Looks like we were right: PaidContent reported Thursday that restaurant and take-out menu listing site MenuPages has been acquired.

Yelp on the iPhone maps and calls destinations and provides user ratings, but leaves off other social-networking elements.

Review site Yelp interviews Google Vice President of Search Products & User Experience Marissa Mayer, who is a renowned cupcake fan, even reportedly creating spreadsheets detailing her favorite cupcakes and ...

What's the best local place for coffee? What about a burrito? Chances are if you don't know, you know where to find out: Citysearch , Yelp , Zagat or any number of other sites.