The Show is ON!

June 17th, 2008 admin Posted in Global, Press Release, Singapore 3 Comments »

Media Release

Lunch with Yebber

The wait is finally over! We’re pleased to announce the launch of Yebber’s first online show - “Lunch with Yebber“!

“Lunch with Yebber” is a 14-episode video production by Yebber that features interesting places to go for lunch. The first episode of this 8 minute variety show opens with the 2 lovely hosts meeting up for lunch and later tries to outdo each other on anything under the sun! This season which will be released weekly over a period of 3 months covers a wide range of restaurants and cafés to suit almost any taste and budget. The show will be available on Yebber.com channel for FREE!

You can watch the show over at http://yebber.com/lunchwithyebber NOW!!!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our two lovely hosts, Diana and Vanessa, for helping us complete this project. They’ve been contributing their bests and volunteering their time despite their busy schedule. We look forward to more opportunities to work together with them in the future. Once again, Thank You Very Much Ladies!

To find out more about them, visit their blogs at Diana (molemole.sg) and Vanessa (vanessatay.com).

More thanks going out to our guests who’ll be guest appearing in some of the episodes of Lunch With Yebber. Hope you’ve enjoyed the process with us!

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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 admin 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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