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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

What's All the Hype about Qype?

Qype 3.0 is live, and you're scratching your little head, wondering what it is... Wikipedia tells us that Qype (founded 2006; a Hamburg-based web 2.0 company centered around social networking and local reviews) hosts an online database of user-generated reviews of local businesses in Europe. Users can add new places to the database, upload photos, review places in German, French and English and engage in community activities. Qype maintains a wide-ranging category system listing everything from cosmetic surgery to gay bars. Within this category structure all places are listed in rank-order, with the ranking being based on user rankings. Selected reviews are also presented in the weekly Qype newsletter, and on city and country pages.

There is a de-facto reputation system, where users can see which members are the most popular, respected, and prolific contributors. Users can also check out who shares their interests or indeed their opinions of specific places. Qype fosters the community with events for members at local bars and restaurants, as well as with special events for Qype members that have reached the "insider" status.

Qype's features include:

Private messaging
Tagging other members' reviews as "helpful" or "well written"
User-created lists
User-created groups
Lists of "friends"
Google Maps display of other venues in the vicinity

Das neue Qype ist jetzt live.

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Tags: Qype, Qype

Labels: Social Networking, Technology, web 2.0

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