Yesterday Yelp released an update to their iPhone application. I probably wouldn't have even noticed, except that I visited the app store to download the new Facebook application that everyone was in an uproar about, and it told me there was a new version. So, I downloaded it, checked the notes to see if they had added the ability to post reviews direct from the app (still no? Come on Yelp!) then closed the app. I had pretty much forgotten about it until I saw a tweet a few hours later on twitter from another local Portland chap, Marshall Kirkpatrick, of ReadWriteWeb titled "Yelp brings first US augmented reality to iPhone". That caught my attention right quick! I clicked on the link, and couldn't believe what I was reading. Apparently there's a hidden feature in the new Yelp app that allows people to unlock an Augmented Reality function. What, what, what? more...
The lives of its residents and the landscape of the real estate market forever changed when Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast four years ago this month. Read an Inman News report: "
These Inman News columnists will meet with attendees during a "Meet the Inman Writers" session at the Inman News Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco this week. The session will run from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, in the Palace Hotel's Ralston Room.