Comments on: YellowBot.com http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:25:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tomvonl http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-84 tomvonl Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:12:46 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-84 A followup on my earlier comment. The people at Yellowbot did eventually contact me and have my personal information removed from their site, as well apparently from the business listing they use to populate the site. Although it was a frustrating few days wait, they we're apologetic and accommodating in the end and it seems may make an effort to improve communications with users in the future about any errant listings. A followup on my earlier comment. The people at Yellowbot did eventually contact me and have my personal information removed from their site, as well apparently from the business listing they use to populate the site. Although it was a frustrating few days wait, they we’re apologetic and accommodating in the end and it seems may make an effort to improve communications with users in the future about any errant listings.

]]> By: tomvonl http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-83 tomvonl Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:59:11 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-83 Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people's personal information as "businesses". They just scrape other site's listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don't respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website. Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people’s personal information as “businesses”. They just scrape other site’s listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don’t respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website.

]]> By: Passage Productions http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-78 Passage Productions Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:00:53 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-78 San Diego Video Production - Check these guys out, they have really nice project on their site. http://www.passageproductions.com San Diego Video Production – Check these guys out, they have really nice project on their site. http://www.passageproductions.com

]]> By: yellowbot http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-6 yellowbot Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:26:32 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-6 We don't plan on adding any additional info at the moment. Here is another example and a description of how the info is used: http://www.yellowbot.com/ezo-dinning-sushi-bar-west-hollywood-ca.html The location above has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars The distribution summary (red/green/yellow/etc bar at the bottom of that section) shows the ratings all over the place so it is not 3 stars because people voted at either extreme or because there was a consensus that it was 3 stars). Take a look at the line graph demonstrating the ratings over time and you see that people rated it highly but the restaurant, according to users, has gone downhill. It's rated a 3 because it was rated highly but, as time went on, people liked it less and less for one reason or another (you can read the reviews to find out specifics). We don’t plan on adding any additional info at the moment. Here is another example and a description of how the info is used:
http://www.yellowbot.com/ezo-dinning-sushi-bar-west-hollywood-ca.html
The location above has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars
The distribution summary (red/green/yellow/etc bar at the bottom of that section) shows the ratings all over the place so it is not 3 stars because people voted at either extreme or because there was a consensus that it was 3 stars).
Take a look at the line graph demonstrating the ratings over time and you see that people rated it highly but the restaurant, according to users, has gone downhill. It’s rated a 3 because it was rated highly but, as time went on, people liked it less and less for one reason or another (you can read the reviews to find out specifics).

]]> By: fitzthegreat http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-4 fitzthegreat Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:03:42 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-4 Hey, that's a nice touch, including reviews from other sources -- I hadn't noticed that. I see that you guys have a couple of charts related to the ratings -- does YellowBot plan on including any other types of data visualization? Hey, that’s a nice touch, including reviews from other sources — I hadn’t noticed that. I see that you guys have a couple of charts related to the ratings — does YellowBot plan on including any other types of data visualization?

]]> By: yellowbot http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-3 yellowbot Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:10:25 +0000 http://fitzwriter.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/yellowbotcom/#comment-3 Hi Fitz, Glad you like YellowBot! We're hoping to continue what we're doing and finding users like you. Please make sure to give us feedback and let us know of any feature requests you may have in our forum: http://www.yellowbot.com/forum/ We were a bunch of coders an open source fans fed up with all the other options out there so we built YellowBot to not only be trustworthy, but provide you with an overview of what other sites think of these businesses. You can find reviews and information from other sites aggregated on the site as well. Take a look at this example: http://www.yellowbot.com/driskill-hotel-austin-tx.html Hi Fitz,

Glad you like YellowBot! We’re hoping to continue what we’re doing and finding users like you. Please make sure to give us feedback and let us know of any feature requests you may have in our forum:

http://www.yellowbot.com/forum/

We were a bunch of coders an open source fans fed up with all the other options out there so we built YellowBot to not only be trustworthy, but provide you with an overview of what other sites think of these businesses. You can find reviews and information from other sites aggregated on the site as well. Take a look at this example:
http://www.yellowbot.com/driskill-hotel-austin-tx.html

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