Behind the 8 ball

A while ago mom was brain storming with Frank about her ability to think and write truthful reviews of restaurants. Mom wanted to get the truth out there and uncover the oddities of places and pay homage to certain people who worked there, or at least get their opinion. She wanted to tell the truth about things like using the bathroom there, or if she got bad vibes from the staff, or if it was totally awesome and fun.
So she started this blog with the idea for it to become a website if she could get the funding or the people to come in and design the site for her.
It was going to be called Laura's Real Reviews. You can check out her first stab at it.
She thought that there was nothing out there that allowed people to really write what they feel. Mom was also going to add fun twists and interviews from staff and all the bike routes along with the subway routes to get there.

Anyway, long story short, she never really followed through and got her act together, and found that drive to make it happen.
Just the other day while mom was taking a sec to browse through the blogoshpere she came upon a post on Kris's Ex-Boyfriends site about this new site called Yelp.com.


Once again mom is behind the game. How did she not know that this site was out there and doing what she was trying to do on a much larger scale. Not that she wanted profiles or anything, but she wanted a way for people to read the honest truth about places to eat. She did not want readers to feel as if they were not getting the truth because the reviewers had to get their review approved, before it could be published.

Yelp.com not only allows people to be honest but you get a variety of takes on the same place. It also gives you credit if you are the first one to review something. That is fantastic to me.


Yelp.com is a great way to "social network" while actually doing something. As "Vinnie" says "A social network for the sake of a social network doesn't offer much value."
Not that their bad (mom's a member of most, and is one google search away from being fired or discovered at her job), but it is nice to be a member of a site that gives you real information and lets you write your real opinion.

So farewell to Laura's real reviews and soon you will be able to read them on Yelp.com

Unless she can convince herself to start her site again . . .