Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by danso on Monday November 05, 2012 @04:41PM (#4745947)

I wonder if that really adds much information value in the grand scheme of things. Yelp is built for ratings and reviews and I can't see myself making the extra trip to Foursquare to see how its users rate something when Yelp will be far more useful.

But what 4sq has that Yelp doesn't is number of visits (per user) and time-relation of visits between places. Instead of ratings, a metric unique to 4sq would be repeat visits (cleaned in such a way to eliminate superficial checkins) and where people go immediately before and after visiting a given place. I would rather see that kind of behavioral data leveraged more than have one more place where people rate things

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by jorgeortiz85 on Monday November 05, 2012 @04:48PM (#4745971)

Foursquare ratings are indeed based on these kinds of implicit signals that we can infer from the data.

There is currently no way to explicitly rate a venue on Foursquare.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by iciclesandwich on Monday November 05, 2012 @04:43PM (#4745952)

> I would rather see that kind of behavioral data leveraged more than have one more place where people rate things

FTFA:

> The data is based on a bunch of data that Foursquare collects, which it says result in more accurate and varied results than the typical ‘other site’, where ratings can all meet in the middle.

You basically just asked for exactly what the article infers that they're doing already.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by danso on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:04PM (#4746055)

Yep, I deserve a "RTFA award"

So I'll rephrase and say that the rating, as it seems to be presented in the app, doesn't give enough context to show how it is different from how 1 to 10 ratings are done elsewhere.

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