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Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by James_Duval »

michaelt wrote: post #67
kapilkale wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's high quality content that people want to share. Some of those people will inevitably share it on their blogs, with links pointing at the site. As a result, Yelp's pagerank improves and they stay ahead of their competition for things like "best restaurants in San Francisco". A ton (I'd guess 80%+) of Yelp's traffic comes from Google / Bing search. Maintaining / growing that traffic is probably a substantial drive…

So, is all high quality content people link to "SEO"?

Depends on the intention.

I think in this case, as Yelp have admitted in the past they are dependent on Google/organic search traffic, it is likely that this content is intended to function as SEO as well as (and due to the fact that it is) something cool.

With a company with more of a business-to-business angle, it might have been more ambiguous, but in this case it seems likely that SEO is part or all of the motivation.

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Post by lmm »

kryten wrote: post #63
semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Depends what you are after and what city. Having mistakenly bought a house in a hipster infested area of London a few years ago, I wouldn't recommend your approach unless your idea of a good night out is doing copious amounts of coke in front of children out with their parents, getting pissed and vomiting over the pavement (sidewalk), getting your iPhone nicked and then wading through broken glass until you get to yo…

The hipsters I know wouldn't be seen dead with coke (too mainstream). Where was that, Brixton?

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Post by furyg3 »

dwyer wrote: post #42
semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster. > click hipster and go there Oh wait... But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to see The Colosseum. If I go to Amsterdam, I want to see the Van Gogh Museum. Not being a tourist somewhere means having already seen what the tourists there are just seeing for the first time. Would…

It has nothing to do with being a hipster, just different tastes.

If you come to Amsterdam and go to the Red Light, Museumplein, and Heineken brewery, that's one experience, but most Amsterdammers are never at those places. They're having a picnic in Westerpark, and beers on a terrace at Browerij 't IJ... Same with SF... I grew up there, but I've never been to Alcatraz, and I think I've been to Pier 39 once when I was 10.

Not that those places have no value, but some travelers are more interested in lifestyle than photo checklists. If you only have a few days in Paris, a day at the Louvre just getting in your way of seeing the real city, unless you are a big art history fan and love lines.

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Post by kami8845 »

kryten wrote: post #63
semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Depends what you are after and what city. Having mistakenly bought a house in a hipster infested area of London a few years ago, I wouldn't recommend your approach unless your idea of a good night out is doing copious amounts of coke in front of children out with their parents, getting pissed and vomiting over the pavement (sidewalk), getting your iPhone nicked and then wading through broken glass until you get to yo…

If you go to the London hipster map. I live square dead in the middle of it (the Shoreditch triangle). Granted I've only lived here for 4 months but the only 2 bad things that I've seen were:

1) Someone puked in the alleyway that leads to my door. I walked around it. 2) One day when coming home at 11pm, there were people smoking weed in front of my door and one guy was pissing against the building close to my door. I went inside and everyone minded their own business.

Yeah those are not the nicest of experiences, however I'm rewarded every day by incredible access to art & culture (and amazing music gigs I can walk to by foot) and -- plainly -- I love people who step outside normalcy in terms of how they dress & express themselves. It's fun to see and makes me push my own boundaries :)

EDIT: Shoreditch is by now also an incredibly safe & affluent/expensive area. Never once have I felt threatened here, I feel safe carrying my phone on me at all times of day/night. This might be different in the cheaper-but-also-hipster areas of Hackney like Dalston.

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Post by ctrager »

Here's something similar I recently created. http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html It uses a collection of keywords that you choose and then uses Nokia's HERE.com APIs to create a heatmap. The fun is coming up with the keywords. "Vegetarian" and "yoga" work pretty well for finding hipster places in the US, but for India not so much. Instead I tried "coffee", "pub", "pizza". "Sushi" works internationally except you-know-where.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by ctrager »

ctrager wrote: post #78

Here's something similar I recently created. http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html It uses a collection of keywords that you choose and then uses Nokia's HERE.com APIs to create a heatmap. The fun is coming up with the keywords. "Vegetarian" and "yoga" work pretty well for finding hipster places in the US, but for India not so much. Instead I tried "coffee", "pub", "pizza". "Sushi" works internationally except you-know…

Also, for tourists versus locals, this is fantastic, using geocoded tweets. It confirms what I tell out-of-town visitors to Chicago: Locals don't go to Navy Pier. http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#13/41.9007/-...

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Post by walshemj »

dtf wrote: post #64
basicallydan wrote: post #59

In London, "cheap" and "pricey" tend to stay around the same sort of area. http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/cheap http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/pricey Well, shit. This is awesome though. Nice one, Yelp :)

Soho pretty much is both at once. Expensive cocktail bars next to old men's pubs, fancy restaurants next to fish & chip shops, exclusive members' clubs next to dirty downstairs speakeasies.

And full of people who say its not the same since "Jeff" died - I had a pint in the coach and horses in Soho and the barman actually "apologised" for me having to wait while he changed the barrel - I felt short changed :-)
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