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more about #valleywag Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more » youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more » contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more » sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more » DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more » raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more » resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more » Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more » Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more » BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more » CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more » Magister: Re: Penelope Trunk I'm not even bothering to fake the lie - The computer I'll be buying this Christmas will be for me, so that the kids can have the ... more » GooberSaysHey: Kevin Smith is the ultimate (disgusting) oversharer. Ever seen that filmed speech he gave detailing the first time he nailed his wife? Ick. more » MyNameIsChris: Re: Avatar Is twittering reviews on films you didn't see the new blogging reviews about films you haven't seen? more » econdave: "Gilfriend"? She's a fish? more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: "Nominally married?" Is that like a barely civil union? more » ArleenCabango: had this merely been a message about her son dying, it wouldn't bother me. but there are realms of tweets all the time by this woman. tons of them on ... more » fuzzymuffins: martha, how much for the matching set of housekeepers? will they be available in chartreuse and linen? more » SidAndFinancy: Thank goodness for that Gateway settlement; I need to sell my own personal information to feed my Phonics jones. more » ArdelisDeeson: Wow, is it time to treat women like subhuman shit again? George Carlin must be smiling in his grave. more » -
#foodwars
The Trolling Cook
Christopher Kimball would like you to subscribe to his magazine and website, and has been trolling various media for attention. The Cook's Illustrated publisher's latest ploy: A cookoff between him and Wikipedia. Talk about a ridiculous match up. More » -
#dining
On Yelp, Every Restaurant is Very Special
Reviewers on Yelp aren't very discerning: They award four or five stars 69 percent of the time (see chart). The local ratings website could combat this by grading on the curve, but would rather force you to click around. More » -
#feuds
Anna Wintour 'Just An Employee' to Wolfgang Puck's Wife
New court papers have Wolfgang Puck's wife dissing everyone from Anna Wintour to Shaquille O'Neal and proclaiming herself "the new Bill Gates." It's the inevitable trainwreck ending to a food huckster's partnership with a group of internet speculators.
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#dining
The New Restaurant Bribery
The Web was supposed to disintermediate business, replacing corruptible middlemen with accurate information fed directly to consumers. But judging from the restaurant industry's experience, it may have just made corruption more widespread and louche. Just look at this receipt: More » -
#googleplex
Google Chef in Top Chef Clam Embarrassment
Google must not be big on fresh shellfish in the company cafeteria, judging from executive chief Preeti Mistry's Wednesday performance on Top Chef. The Cordon Bleu graduate figured she'd just shuck the little beasties like oysters. Whoops! More » -
#urbananthropology
How Twitter Is Escalating the Street Food Vendor Wars
Twitter has been a boon to mobile food vendors, allowing fans to find them wherever their carts might be. But their location-hopping threatens upsetting the entire order on which food vendor peace rests. More » -
#foodwars
Prissy Food Bloggers Hate Food Blogger Movie
Julie Powell blogged her way through cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking; a book deal and movie followed. Are food bloggers thrilled for her? Hardly; Powell is a foodie infidel who must be stopped.
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#food
Alice Waters Seeks Organic Bailout
Ah, California, that prodigious producer of fruits, nuts, and flakes. Alice Waters, the famous Chez Panisse chef, has seized on the national craze for bailouts to demand organic, unprocessed school lunches for all. More » -
