With the influx of US-TM HD2 owners coming up soon, one of the things I think they might ask for is a Yelp application. I'm guessing this because I wish I had one! It seems every other mobile OS besides Symbian has a native app, but we're stuck with using the mobile site! We don't want to be associated with those Nokia people do we?
If you aren't familiar with Yelp, it's a review site for pretty much any business you can think of - very popular for restaurants, bars, etc. I know people in the US use it a lot. Yelp has a UK/Canada presence as well, not sure how popular it is.
As mentioned, we can currently go to m.yelp.com and search, but it's not ideal since you have to type in your location, type in what you're looking for, and almost makes you not want to use it.
If you get the Yelp app for iPhone, webOS, Android, BB, etc., it'll use your phone's 'network triangulation' or GPS to automatically show you what's around you. Of course, once you have that, you can filter by category (restaurant, shopping, etc.), and sort by rating (and other various features.)
If you click on an item of interest, you can read the reviews, get details on the store (location, hours, etc.), and if the app is developed enough - write reviews, post pictures, and be a contributing member of the site.
Yelp has an API that seems pretty easy and robust, where requests are passed along like so
Code:
Sample Request:
[url]http://api.yelp.com/business_review_search?term=yelp&lat=37.788022&long=-122.399797&radius=10&limit=5&ywsid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[/url]
And you get a crapload of data back, all nicely formatted and easy to handle.
More info here: http://www.yelp.com/developers
TBH, I would try and code it myself, but I'd only be able to create a backend, maybe (never coded for WM before.) The GUI is the most important part since a lot of the heavy lifting is done with the API (otherwise, we'd have to scrape and... ugh.)
I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in such an app, and I'm willing to pay for it. I'll start a bounty of $20 for anyone interested in developing it! All I ask for release is a touch-friendly Yelp reader that transmits current location. Further yelp-contributing features can be developed later @devs discretion.
Maybe Aloqa could help?
Hi Mazzarin,
I am using Aloqa, by default it shows Cafes, Restaurants, "what's hot", Sights, Bars and Cubs, Movies, Wikipedia, Fashion and last.fm.
You can add other channels or create your own.
All the best,
Peter
Aloqa and Yelp
Aloqa has a Yelp channel as well... but...
I would LOVE to have Yelp... +1
I will also put in $10 bounty for this.
p_fr1968: Thanks for the heads up. I'm downloading it now veeerrry slowly. I looked up the app on Marketplace and it seems to have people that either love it or absolutely hate it so lets see!
taimoorhusain: I think I convinced a dev to do it, hopefully we'll see a release soon!
Only had a very quick look at this, shouldn't be too muh hassle writing an app for this, I'd have to dev it for windows then port it WM (as I'm new to the 3.5 cf so don't know what it can and more importantly can't do)
Tried aloqa... it works okay. Seems buggy, doesn't have kinetic scrolling, and only does GPS OR GSM location, not both. I'll write the devs with my thoughts and maybe they'll fix it up! But it DOES have Yelp!
djingonthenet - That would be cool if you could do it, but like I mentioned in the above post, a dev who already has a running app has stated he'll do it. More competition or something I guess?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619329
^Next2Me is the app.
mazzarin said:
Tried aloqa... it works okay. Seems buggy, doesn't have kinetic scrolling, and only does GPS OR GSM location, not both. I'll write the devs with my thoughts and maybe they'll fix it up! But it DOES have Yelp!
djingonthenet - That would be cool if you could do it, but like I mentioned in the above post, a dev who already has a running app has stated he'll do it. More competition or something I guess?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619329
^Next2Me is the app.
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well I'll have a look anyway, maybe knock up a basic version then see how it goes from there. is the next2me app just for USA locs or does it work in the UK as well?
At the moment, next2me uses google local so... pretty much everywhere.
Re: Aloqa, got a response back really quick:
Aloqa Feedback said:
We are working on a full featured version of Aloqa for WinMo that should have all the features you mention and more, including those available today exclusively on Aloqa for Android. We hope to launch it in 6 - 8 weeks, so please stay tuned!
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With the influx of US-TM HD2 owners coming up soon, one of the things I think they might ask for is a Yelp application. I'm guessing this because I wish I had one!
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Did you ever find a Yelp one? I know you mentioned the developer of Next2Me incorporating it into that (nice) app; but it doesn't seem to have happened.
I find Aloqa's interface a bit scruffy. I noticed there's an app for Qype in the uk app store (Qype's like Yelp but better for Uk/Europe; bit sketchy for U.S.) but I still can't find anything for Yelp in the U.S. or otherwise
Does the Yelp iphone app let you leave your own reviews (like Qype does)? I had a quick look at the Yelp API but it looks like it's 'read-only'. I think that's half the fun being able to tell people when your restaurant food arrived cold!
James.
Never found one unfortunately. Not sure about the capabilities of the iPhone app, but I'd be happy to get read-only access still!
Yeah me too. Thanks for letting me know. Fingers crossed the big organisations start writing their apps for at least WP7.
I'll email the author of the winmo Qype app (Magic Guidebook) and see if he's willing to add in Yelp.
Awesome, let me know how it goes.
Thei Title pretty much sums it up.
What I am looking for (with no result so far) is a site that has reviews of Market Apps, but with a twist.
Instead of looking at a few apps and rating them, I think it would be helpful if the reviewers went out and started to evaluate apps by genre. TO make my point clearer: when you are a newbie and you start looking around for common, everyday use tools like a Tasks Manager, Battery Widgets, RSS Feed Readers, etc the Market confronts you with a a sh*tload of Apps.
It sometimes looks as if every second active developer wrote one, and not they all clutter the Market. Of course you can go by the ratings, either the Market ones or ones supplied by like AppBrain, or you can go by download numbers. Still it comes down to painstakingly installing loads of different kinds to see which one suits you the most.
If anyone here knows about some blog or even threads on some forum where useful side-by-side comparisions can be found, reviews that list pros and cons of each App, maybe even show a feature matrix it sure would be a one hell of a simplifications for newbies as it would not require wading throuhg dozens of apps to find the one that does what you want it to do.
So does anyone know something? Or would maybe xda-developers offer a subforum dedicated to this, so a collaboration of this indeed time-consuming testing can be started? I would sure as hell be happy to help with it.
What do you guys think? Is trying out dozens of apps just a rite of passage? Or do you feel checking a matrix of features and a few screenshots in ONE place would make selectionf of your favorite RSS App easier as well?
Hi Guys,
I'm looking at marketing my app, but can only really find 2 main non-native app stores - Freeware Lovers and GetJar.
Does anyone have a list of all the biggest, most popular app stores?
Supporting stats would also be really helpful!
Thanks,
Z
I honestly wouldn't know where to start other than offering you Google Search.
Hoing mods won't ban me/delete this post but I did a review of the Any.DO to do list app and just thought I should let you know if you want to check it out
Comments also welcome here and will take reviews if people have been looking at an app but are not sure about it, or want comparisons between certain apps. Hoping to give unbiased views but I cannot promise anything! Much love.
LINK: http://siloworks.tumblr.com/post/18799908602/anydoappreview
I've tried it and personally think that it's lacking a lot of options that I need. Options like reminders, lists etc... All in all, app is visually very appealing however it's too basic, so I've decided to stick with Astrid.
It has reminders on there, I even had one pop us this morning And how do you mean lists?
I have the app developed for a simple purpose that lets the world to share reviews about products, restaurants, places, movies etc. all in one place. I have seen no apps for this purpose and thought why shouldn't I do something that fills the gap.
Please have a look at the android app RevBeans and kindly provide any feedback, even if you think its just a piece of [email protected]
Thank you for your help,