Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by jorgeortiz85 on Monday November 05, 2012 @04:47PM (#4745962)

We use many dozens of signals to determine venue quality, not just raw number of check-ins.

And there's definitely manual rules for offices, homes, airports, and other categories that receive disproportionate numbers of check-ins.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by rdl on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:01PM (#4746041)

Awesome (the product works pretty well for me, at least in the Bay Area; not so great in Hawaii yet).

Please don't be tempted to go down the "extort small businesses" path that Yelp seems to, though.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by ianstallings on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:24PM (#4746141)

Any chance those rules will be revealed? Or is this your secret sauce?

I heard you guys had to move offices during the hurricane to further up in midtown. Were you rolling this out during that move?

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by jorgeortiz85 on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:35PM (#4746189)

I expect we may reveal what kinds of things we take as good signals, but the exact recipe will probably remain a secret sauce. Even if we don't, most of the components are really quite obvious: what kinds things would people do if they really liked or hated your business? Those are the kinds of things we're measuring.

Yeah, our SoHo office had no power for almost all of last week. We managed to find temporary office space in Midtown to work out of.

Most of the work for venue ratings was done before the storm though. We've been testing the product internally for a few weeks now. That said, a lot of people were getting work done even from our displaced office space.

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