http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/yelp-reviews-boost-restaurant-business/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/yelp-reviews-boost-restaurant-business/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:30:22 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32793 A new study, published in the Economic Journal, shows that crowd-sourced online review websites play an important role in consumer decisions. An analysis of 328 restaurant reviews on Yelp found that an increase of a half-star in ratings corresponded to a 19 percent greater likelihood of selling out during peak dining times. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/yelp-reviews-boost-restaurant-business/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/21/lifeinaday/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/21/lifeinaday/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:44:50 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=14163 A new crowd-sourced documentary, a collaboration between a couple of film giants and YouTube that hits U.S. theaters Sunday, was made from the best of 80,000 videos submitted by people around the globe. The very first one came from a UC Berkeley tech expert. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/21/lifeinaday/feed/ 0