Yelp, the community driven website helping people find and review local businesses, as of version 3.0, now includes an interesting easteregg: Augmented reality (AR). Augmented reality wasn’t expected for iPhone at all until at least iPhone OS 3.1 came out sometime in September. In fact, Apple was apparently actively stopping developers from releasing apps which included AR features.
Even more proof that the app store isn’t perfect, Yelp was able to bypass apple’s review panel and sneek add this feature to their app by including it via hidden easteregg which is only activated by running Yelp and shaking your iPhone (3GS only) three times. You know you’ve done it right when a message pops up informing you “The Monocle is activated. Yelp thought reality was boring so we augmented it.” At that point a button appears in the upper right hand corner that says “Monocle”, clicking this activates AR.
The following article is an opinion piece and should be read as such. This post is in no way a personal attack against the subject of this article or his/her company. This post’s purpose is to serve as a consumer alert for those who may be in the position of considering SEO work. All details herein are based on a single experience which occurred long enough in the past that the quotes and the order that the events took place may not be completely accurate.
Based on my experiences (accounted in full later on in this post) I would not do business with the company 1seoExperts for the following reasons. (The “SEO Expert” that I refer to herein is the same one listed at 1seoExperts)
- Their lead SEO Expert does not seem to have a strong enough programming foundation to be effective at his job.
- Their company outsources their web-development to countries such as (but not restricted to) China and India. This means less work for Americans, and that the quality of their work may be questionable.
- Because they outsource web-development and the lead SEO Expert does not do much programming, the security of the sites that they work on may not be up to par with current standards.
- Their lead SEO Expert has a very short temper and does not seem to act in a businesslike manor.
At no point in my visit was I asked to sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement, and the privacy of our conversation was never discussed. As such I feel it is my duty as a concerned consumer to report the following full re-accounting of my experiences meeting with the lead SEO Expert from 1seoExperts.
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