YELP!

Is now in Canada!

I first heard of Yelp! in NYC when I visited my boyfriend and we were looking for a place to eat. But the problem was we had no knowledge of the city or his new neighborhood.

So, we went online entered our address and searched for restaurants near by: there were tons of results. We narrowed it down by reading the reviews of the restaurants and the type of food we were interested in. What is also really cool about Yelp! is that there are default searches, such as drugstores, restaurants and Cafes, to name a few.

You can also install it on your phone where it then uses your GPS location (if your mobile device is equipted with one) tells you what is close.

It's really easy to get sucked into reading the reviews, especially when you find a resto you really like or really don't.

My conclusion: Yelp! FTW!

Song of the day!

It's International Woman's Day!

No bigger compliment than a Tweet

Last night I went to an opening party in Liberty Village for WIDEawake Entertainment, a new Toronto-based record label, also the parent company of Death Row Records, founded by Suge Knight and Dr Dre. There is actually major controversy and lawsuits surrounding them and the woman, Lara Ann Lavi who apparently started WIDEawake. (BTW, If you go to their under construction website, all that is posted on the site is three copies of the Court's rulings - STRANGE.)

Aaaaaanyways, the event was really fun and well organized and the office space is beautiful! But two interesting I reconnected with a few PR ladies I met over the years, but I was really excited to run into one in particular, Chrissy, Founder and Principal of VOCAB Communications. We rehashed old memories from when we used to work together as Beer Girls for Molson. Then I commended her on her career and told her I've been following her progress and that her client list is impressive! Chrissy blushed and said she was really flattered and said we should stay in touch. I thought to myself, ten years ago, telling someone that you are following their internet presence wouldn't have been a from of flattery.

Then there were these wonderful jewelery makers SOOS Rocks, they were promoting themselves by giving a piece of jewelery to everyone at the party. We even got to choose out of hundreds of pieces. Later on in the evening, I browsed passed the jewelery table and saw another sexy necklace, and the lovely girls just gave it to me - SWEET! So I Tweeted about them and told them. Again, they were SO grateful and asked my name and told me to email them.

The point I am getting at is social media has become a language in itself AND I would even dare to say it is one of the highest forms of flattery. Crazy!

New music Tuesday

Off the Hook Mixtape - Telephoned

My wonderful boyfriend Dropbox'd me this mixtape last week, and I finally got around to syncing my iPod on the weekend. It is off the hook!

Telephoned is made up of my fave DJ, Sammy Bananas and the magnificent voice of Maggie Horn, and together they just tear up this 18-track mixtape.

Get on it.