Site Improvement and New Icons

August 7th, 2008 Claudia Posted in Features, News, Singapore No Comments »

We’re trying to speed things up…

It has come to our notice that things have been moving pretty slowly at Yebber.com. This is mainly due to the increase in visitors traffic and users over the past months. We are trying our best to improve the situation and speed things up for everyone. Yebber’s line speeds will also be increased by 4x to cater to the increasing traffic and content that will be available on Yebber.com in mid August 2008.

Thanks to all the emails and messages sent to us, informing us on the error and problems that you have encountered while using Yebber. We really appreciate this and they are all very good feedback for us as we may not be able to detect all the errors or problems ourselves. Do continue to send us the feedback and we will try our best to get them solved. You can send the email to info @ yebber . com.

New Icons on Yebber

We’ve also added some new icons to the site to help identify the following…

Ambassadors -

This is the group of members who have been selected as our ambassadors. More details can be found here.

Not Counted Review -

The review is either too short, uninformative, contains inaccurate information, deemed as an advertorial or user has exceeded the daily 7 reviews limit. No Yebber$ is awarded.

Reviewer may edit the review and resubmit the review for consideration if they want to. Yebber$ will be awarded upon approval and removal of ‘Not counted review’ icon.

Bad Review -

The review is badly written or not relevant at all. No Yebber$ is awarded.

Only authorized personnel and the person who posted the bad review can see this icon. Reviewer may edit the review and resubmit the review for consideration if they want to. Yebber$ will be awarded upon approval and removal of ‘Bad Review’ icon.

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Celebrate National Day by Joining the Qoo Roo Talk Show!

July 2nd, 2008 Claudia Posted in Contests, News, Singapore No Comments »

Comiqs.com will be launching the world’s first Comic Talk Show online application on 7th July 2008 to celebrate Singapore’s 43rd National Day. The host of the Comic Talk Show is a Comiqs cartoon character by the name of Qoo Roo. He is cute, crazy and funny! Qoo Roo will start the show by asking Singaporeans questions related to this year’s NDP theme, “Celebrating the Singapore Spirit”. Users will upload images of themselves and answer questions in comic strip format.

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Yebber$ Top-up

July 2nd, 2008 Claudia Posted in News, Singapore No Comments »

Remember in June, we announced the amendments to our Y$ exchange policy? We are glad to inform you that Y$200 has been credited to all members who’ve met the requirements and are eligible for the top-up.

Please check your Y$ statement for the updated total. If you have any enquiries or questions, please forward them to info[at]yebber[dot]com. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

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Yebber Wins Hitwise Singapore Top 10 Award

June 6th, 2008 Yebber Posted in Awards & Accreditation, News, Press Release, Singapore No Comments »

Yebber.com has ranked No. 3 in the Shopping and Classifieds - Rewards and Directories online industry based on the market share of Singapore visits it has received for January to March 2008. (Details here)

The Hitwise Singapore Top 10 Awards Programme celebrates the most successful Singapore websites in 160+ online industries. As Hitwise reports on the anonymous online usage and search behaviour of more than 1.5 million Singapore Internet users—the largest online sample of its kind—this unique awards programme recognises excellence in online performance through public popularity.

Yebber.com is the Singapore Lifestyle Guide for everyone. You get to find information and read reviews on shopping, services, food, restaurants, places and anything that is lifestyle oriented in Singapore. Best of all, the reviews are written by you! And that’s what the Yebber community is about: Real people visiting real places and sharing their genuine and honest experiences with the community. So whether you have something good or not so good to say about a place or service, Yebber.com is your outlet to share!

The team at Yebber.com is delighted to be awarded Hitwise Singapore Top 10 Awards. We would like to thank everyone for your continuous support and we hope you will grow together with us! :)

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Amendment to Yebber$ Exchange Policy

June 5th, 2008 Claudia Posted in Indonesia, Malaysia, News, Press Release, Singapore 4 Comments »

First introduced in 1 September 2007, members at Yebber.com are able to accumulate Yebber$ (Y$) when they participate in Yebber.com. These activities include writing reviews, adding new businesses, posting photos in their reviews and others. And since 1 January 2008, members who had accumulated the minimum required Y$500 were allowed to exchange their Y$ for cash.

After 5 months of implementation and monitoring, the Yebber team saw a need to make the following adjustments:

With effect from 1 June 2008, the exchange of Y$ will be disabled from the 1st to the 7th of each month.

As the computation of the Y$ exchange rate involves a series of data at the end and the beginning of each month, the team needs time to compile these data and calculate the most accurate exchange rate for the month. To facilitate in the computation process, we need to have the most accurate amount of Y$ accumulated by our members in the previous month. To prevent any miscalculation, the team has decided to disable the withdrawal of Y$ during this computation period. This temporary disabling will not affect members’ earnings during this period. All deserving new businesses and reviews added will continue to earn the respectives Y$.

With effect from 1 July 2008, members will need to maintain a minimum of Y$200 in their Y$ account.

The Y$ was originally meant to award Yebbers who contribute reviews and its associated business address and pictures. In May 2008, we were alerted by a massive entry of business addresses without reviews. Recently we saw many business addresses entered but are either incomplete or without the postal code. We do not encourage postings of repeated businesses which have little relevance to the possibility of reviews. Examples of such businesses are 7-11, Cheers, Petrol stations, Banks, etc. Unless there are genuine reviews in these places, we appreciate that members post instead businesses that are unique and would ultimately benefit the Yebber community.

Since Y$ is awarded on a real-time basis, we are not able to prevent members from exchanging their Y$ before we can verify the accuracy of the business addresses and the quality of the reviews, especially if the reviews are written at the end of the month. As such, the balance Y$ may end up negative when the moderators start to disqualify the reviews and business addresses entered after the accumulated Y$ is exchanged. In view of this, Yebber team was planning to award Y$ on a delayed mode, that is, award Y$ after Yebber team has verified the entry. However, it is impossible for the team to monitor the entry on a real-time basis and therefore, the team has decided to implement a Y$200 residual value.

We also see some Yebbers reaching the claimable amount of Y$500 and the implementation of the residual value might possibly delay their claims. As such, the team has decided to top up Y$200 to all Yebbers who have, in their account, at least Y$500 claimable amount as at 30 June 2008. This is provided you do not redeem any Y$ in the month of June. So, if you are just a few reviews away from Y$500, act fast to enjoy this bonus.

On top of the above bonus top-up for members who meet the criteria, we will be rewarding all our Ambassadors an additional Y$100 top-up, that is Y$300 instead of Y$200.

Reminder:
Daily limit of 7 new reviews per member per day still applies. And with immediate effect, there will also be a daily limit of 10 new repeated business posting per member per day. When the limit exceeds, Y$ will not be rewarded.

Yebber reserves the right to amend the Terms and Conditions for Yebber$ and change the Yebber$ associated to each activity as and when is required without notice given to the member. The Yebber$ is computed and awarded to members at the sole discretion of Yebber.com’s team and there should be no dispute over the computation method at any time.

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