Looks interesting... a little like Siri for poor people (like me). As I continue to contemplate Google for Business, things like this look more and more appealing.

Just a quick rant -- I frequently get letters from Domain Registry of America (I have a lot of domain names) and quickly recognize that their "courtesy" letter is basically trying to confuse me into signing up with their expensive domain name hosting service. ($35 a year? Really?)

But every time I see the letter, what angers me more is how many folks are probably falling for this -- I know good, smart, honest businesspeople who don't "get" hosting and registration and domain names and who would be very likely to think that this coming from their own ISP and write the check.

So, here's a blog post to add my voice to the din of complaints about this scheme. DROA... drop the social engineering from your marketing mix, please. How about competing on service and price?

Interesting look at what Yelp has done to itself by pushing the advertising and losing some credibility. My problem -- too many reviews that look like disgruntled busboys giving 1 star followed by the owner's brother-in-law giving it 5 stars.

Are there limits to this sort of crowd-sourcing? And, yes, I'm a newspaper guy -- but doesn't this at least suggest that there's still room for the professional critic? (Or even content like http://www.bestofjackson.com?)