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I see your point about people coming to one place for everything, but I have a passion for chocolate and use seventypercent.com. I get more info about fine chocolate their, it’s in a more quality controlled environment and it is easy to understand without a lot of text and links to 1000 other things. And because chocolate is my passion, and books maybe someone else, it’ll be hard to convince them to change sites…. we that are passionate do not mind having our own login at our review sites, it’s what we think about daily, because most people only have 1-3 things they are REALLY passionate about.

I am not saying your idea is bad, I just believe the internet will become more social and niched in the future.

I admire your perseverance Lawrence, follow your dreams and believe!

We have some cool things in store for the UI.

And the vertical vs. horizontal point is a fair one, and it’s something we hear quite a bit. But there are some compelling examples of sites that didn’t go vertical – Wikipedia, Craigslist, and eBay come to mind.

Additionally, from a reviewer perspective, it’s less than ideal to have to go to different sites depending on what you want to review – Yelp for bars, Flixster for movies, Amazon for books and products, etc. It’s multiple logins to remember, and you can’t bring your reputation / friends from one site to another. I think if we can provide a superior service for reviewers by freeing up their content to go anywhere, giving them ownership and control of their reviews, and sharing revenue, that we’ll have a bright future.

@22 – nice UI, the big advertisements are too big, they make me notice advertising and I hate that on websites. – I like the video that tells people about you and love the Pixies. – Overall the idea is nice, but I wonder about the traction and long term loyalty of your customer.

Ours is still in a fledgling state; nevertheless, I’d love to hear what all of you think about it. We’re really working to make the site increasingly functional and getting good feedback really helps.

It’s here: http://www.makefive.com

This in SF.
http://sf.curbe...ate_reviews.php

And this in the NY Times:
http://www.nyti...f=smallbusiness

I could of posted a dozen more, but didn’t.

The one review on my business is 5 stars out of five, but it was written by my wife’s best friend who has never shopped there. Yelp means very little to anyone who thinks about how credible a source like this REALLY is.

So Lawrence, good luck, I hope you can solve the sell out and credibilty issues Yelp has.