In this podcast Lon Safko speaks with Stephanie Ichinose, Yelp’s Director of Communications about how Yelp helps!  Stephanie explains how “Yelpers” are rating restaurants, auto mechanics, dentists or any company right in your home town.

In this 34 minute interview Stephanie describes how Yelp has received more than 3.5 million reviews of services all over the United states, and how Yelp.com has more than 14 million unique visitors every 30 days.  Stephanie further describes how the mobile phone has changed the way people access Yelp information.  Imagine you’re out to dinner, wanting a good pasta restaurant; turn on your mobile phone, type in pasta, and Yelp returns all of the rated pasta restaurants that’s closest your GPS cell phone and shows their five star ratings!

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