is anyone else tired of seeing all the techcrunch submissions pasted in hn?
this discussion has been had probably a year ago, but it seems like it's getting worse again.. seriously, why?
Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
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Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
#32Are they crazy? They could have made an awful movie with that money!
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#33So the story here is ... Techcrunch published a story about an acquisition that turned out to have no basis in fact. TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip.
TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip.
TMZ isn't a good example. When it comes to breaking celebrity news, they actually exercise a great deal of journalistic integrity and restraint. They're very reliable and very well-sourced.
Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
#34So the story here is ... Techcrunch published a story about an acquisition that turned out to have no basis in fact. TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip.
TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip. TMZ isn't a good example. When it comes to breaking celebrity news, they actually exercise a great deal of journalistic integrity and restraint. They're very reliable and very well-sourced.
I understand what you're saying, but you seem to have supported my argument. TMZ _is_ a better source.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I see that you retracted your original statement, but I'll comment on it nonetheless. Before trying to counter someone's views with "troubling links to Marxist ideology," I think that you should try Googling "McCarthyism" instead of "Capitalism."
Ah yes, some actual communists were threatened and some innocents got caught up in the whole thing.
Meanwhile, communists were killing real people by the thousands.
Yup, McCarthyism was the big problem.
Which reminds me, if "the list" was wrong then, is its complement wrong today?
Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
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Sure, but it's also important to realize that Google Maps was a rare success in a string of mostly failed projects/acquisitions (Orkut, Knol, Picasa, Google Video, etc).. I'd argue that Google's biggest successes were in areas in which the previous leaders failed to innovate for years (Mapquest, Hotmail), whereas Yelp is a very active company in a constant state of improvement/innovation. If I were Yelp, I'd be more…
Yelp is, from my observations, anything but active. They haven't innovated in terms of UI or features in probably two years. Even geographies have been slow to develop - UK took a long time to appear. In fact, they're oddly static - the number of reviewed restaurants and stores has increased quite slowly for most cities, they haven't done a good job pushing into smaller markets. Admittedly this is my anecdotal observ…
What about the IPhone virtual reality app? I've found that very useful and quite innovative.
Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Word of mouth really only works if you live there, not so much if you're just passing through. And the time you really need a site like yelp is for all those times you're just passing through place and want to know who will do you a good pizza.
OK, I guess I misunderstood the use case. Seems like a niche to me.
That's my use case for yelp like sites anyway. When I'm at home I go out for dinner on avg. once or twice a week or so and go to a new restaurant probably less than 1 time in 10, so my need for restaurant reviews is quite low. I also have plenty of other local sources for good reviews when I need them
When I'm traveling I eat out basically every night and visit a new restaurant pretty close 100% of the time. On the whole I have much greater need for a site with reviews of restaurants in not my home town than in my home town, and that hardly seems niche to me.
Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip. TMZ isn't a good example. When it comes to breaking celebrity news, they actually exercise a great deal of journalistic integrity and restraint. They're very reliable and very well-sourced.
I understand what you're saying, but you seem to have supported my argument. TMZ _is_ a better source.
My comment was meant to be agnostic to the merits of your argument. While we're talking about it, though, I think that this particular situation (reporting the Google-Yelp acquisition talks) is actually a bad example as well.
TechCrunch reported that Google and Yelp were in talks for an acquisition. As far as I know, that is true and TechCrunch broke the story with original reporting.
Then TechCrunch reported that Yelp walked away and talks broke down. As far as I know, that is also true and again they broke the story with original reporting.
Remaining agnostic to your claim about TechCrunch, how does this situation support the argument that they are not reliable?
Re: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
#39So the story here is ... Techcrunch published a story about an acquisition that turned out to have no basis in fact. TMZ seems like a more reliable source for gossip.
You need to understand that things change in deals. On Friday you could have reported GM was closing down Saab and it would have been accurate, but on Sunday it was GM had received more inquiries on Saab and a deal may still be made. Just because the news has changed does not mean that there was not a basis in fact for the initial story.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand what you're saying, but you seem to have supported my argument. TMZ _is_ a better source.
My comment was meant to be agnostic to the merits of your argument. While we're talking about it, though, I think that this particular situation (reporting the Google-Yelp acquisition talks) is actually a bad example as well. TechCrunch reported that Google and Yelp were in talks for an acquisition. As far as I know, that is true and TechCrunch broke the story with original reporting. Then TechCrunch reported that Ye…
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