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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Alternatively, I could go look up your restaurant on Yelp and not get fooled at all.
Yelp is a website with social aspects that allows people to rate and write reviews for stores, restaurants, bars, hair salons, barbers, dentists, doctors and pretty much any business I’ve missed. You can look a place up to find reviews and leave a review after you’ve been to a place. That’s the whole premise.
A war is raging with new lines, territories and allegiances being created every day. It is the Browser War, the fight for “usage share,” or what particular browser people are using the most. The browser war traces its roots back to the start of the Internet with Mosaic, Netscape, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – once the overwhelming choice, finds itself under attack from all sides.
Internet historians consider the battle today the second ‘browser war.’ The first is generally accepted to be the rivalry that exploded in the mid to late 1990s between Netscape and Microsoft. Microsoft’s development of Internet Explorer (IE) versions one through five (and its subsequent addition to all Windows platforms upon installation) nearly eliminated the competition. By 2002, IE had 95% of the user share. The war had ended.
Trolls can be scary. Not necessarily in the “What are you doing under my bridge, and why did you eat my goat?” sense of the word, but trolls can make deciding how you and your company are going to interact online a scarier thing.
If you’re still not sure what a troll is, allow a little help from Wikipedia:
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.
