I joined this
Around Me website so I could write some reviews and get paid (through Mechanical Turk). I like that it uses facebook connect so I didn't have to create an account, but other than that, it's stupid. For each category, it seems to have only 10 businesses in the Boston area, and there seems to be no way to add more. I went with the three businesses on the whole thing that I had any experience with. It doesn't even seem to be the 10 biggest businesses in the category; it's pulling up a lot of nondescript businesses in Everett and Wakefield and stuff, but not much actually in Boston, and not many particularly interesting businesses.
Plus the whole thing is pretty useless, because we already have Yelp, which does the same thing, only it actually is functional.
EDIT: They now have a few more businesses, but there still doesn't appear to be a way for a user to add one or even suggest one. Makes me wonder what sort of thing is behind this. Oh, and it deleted my (totally noncontroversial) review of Citizens Bank. Whaaat?
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