entirely stagnant I totally agree. As an API user, their version 2 API had been in beta mode for as long as I could remember. I guess in anticipation of this

entirely stagnant I totally agree. As an API user, their version 2 API had been in beta mode for as long as I could remember. I guess in anticipation of this IPO, they finally removed the beta labels. The API is not very powerful either. ( Reference: http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/api_overview http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/api_overview ) As an aside, the thing that always puzzled me about their API TOS is that you are not allowed to cache the review data. It seems like that requirement was decided on many years ago before we all started using things like Varnish Cache. Why would a data supplier demand that you hit their API for every request, including duplicate ones within a short time frame? What a waste.