Yellowikis is a wiki-based, open yellow pages. On the main page of a business, you do the Wikipedia-ish thing of all agreeing on the neutral-point-of-view facts. On the discussion page you can do the ranting and raving you crave.

The pickings are pretty slim at the moment, but founder Paul Youlten hopes that college students (and others) will want to earn some extra cash by making YW pages for local businesses, including making videos for them; the students keep all the money. Paul has some other ideas up his sleeve as well.

It would be great if YW gained critical mass in some localities. Alternatively, maybe one of the yellow page services — e.g., local.yahoo.com (disclosure) — would like to integrate YW. In any case, it’s a project that could be tremendously useful not only as a service but as a Web resource. [Tags: yellowikis yellow+pages directories local+business business paul+youlten ]

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