The listing for Lori Drew’s marketing business on Yelp has been ravaged by negative reviews posted by Yelpers, including yours truly.  The number of reviews numbered six or seven dozen.  Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, I received the following email from Yelp HQ: Hi, I’m writing to let you know about our decision to remove your review [...]

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Reader “Haywood” dug up these pictures of Lori Drew. Curt’s was easier to find. Lori’s just took longer. The most popular person in the blogosphere couldn’t hide her image forever. The picture portfolio of the June 15th, 2006 meeting of St Peters Chamber of Commerce is the source 1, 2. No Tags

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Someone in a Facebook Group dedicated to the memory of Megan Meier found this picture of Curt Drew on his Coldwell Banker real estate agent profile: Also, Yelpers have dug up information on Curt Drew’s local business, Drew Advantage, including a list of businesses that advertise through it. No Tags

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Brandon Antron Rolle, the man accused of killing Ronald Gentile in Miami last year finally goes to trial today.  The killing was the subject of a crime investigation show “48 Hours” that I saw on cable (probably in reruns) a few weeks ago.  Ronald Gentile was in Miami to see his son and was returning [...]

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Rails stopped routing http requests the morning after everything was working fine.  I was running demo exercises from the Agile Rails book and didn’t seem to do anything that could have messed up the installation.  Downloading and symlinking to the books own app code didn’t fix the problem.  ”no route found to match “/store” with {:method=>:get}” attempting [...]

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MySpace’s effort to emulate the distinguishing status updates feature of Facebook went down quickly after introduction and remains down: The function that you are currently trying to use is disabled and will be back shortly.We are making some minor changes to this section so please bear with us until we can get it back online.Please do NOT email [...]

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There’s plenty of unofficial APIs for MySpace floating around but despite acknowledgement from MySpace management of Facebook’s powerful interface and its popularity with developers and meek promises to counter with a similar move, we haven’t seen anything yet… until now.   http://media.myspace.com/services/media/albums.asmx gives a glimpse of an interface for MySpace photo albums. The following operations are supported: GetAlbums GetAlbumsSlideShow GetImagesCount InsertAlbum To give you a [...]

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In another example of cooptition, the niche social network / food & entertainment review site has established a presence on Yelp with its Hangout application. The app is not much to write home about but it is a good example of outside companies finding value in joining the Facebook ecosystem. Yelp is well-focused [...]

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