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Reviews site Yelp is coming to the UK - and bringing the partiesToday

It won't be good news for Trusted Places, Brownbook or YourLocalLondon, but the well-established US listings and reviews site Yelp.com is launching in the UK tomorrow, kicking off with a dedicated London site.

Sprinkled with a few suitably colloquialisms and run by the soon-to-be-recruited community manager (get those applications in now!), Yelp London will have the usual mix of diverse reviews across everything from restaurants, shops, events and churches to parks, manicurists and local schools. If it exists in the real world, you can review it on Yelp.

Yelp will also bring its community events from the US; the most recent event in San Francisco saw 2,500 Yelpers meet up to share their enthusiasm for reviewing. It might seem odd, but as ever on

Global Radio's Hit40UK chart goes digital onlyToday

Global Radio's Hit40UK chart, which is broadcast on 130 commercial stations across the UK every Sunday, is to be based solely on digital downloads from this weekend.

From this Sunday, Hit40UK will drop CD sales and airplay statistics and be based exclusively on digital downloads, which already account for 96% of data from which the chart is compiled. Global Radio's weekly chart show pulls in 1.9 million weekly listeners.

Paul Jackson, the group programme director for Global Radio brands 95.8 Capital FM, the Xfm and Hit Music Network stations and Hit40UK, said: "Downloads have now become the driving force for record sales, as the statistics clearly show.

"It makes complete sense that the UK's most listened-to chart show reflects the changes in how people are listening to music."

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Twitter set for its mainstream telly moment on Jonathan Ross's comeback showToday

Twitter could be facing a mainstream telly milestone on 23 January when dedicated Twitterer and geek pin-up Stephen Fry joins newbie Twitterer Jonathan Ross in his first post-Sachsgate scandal Friday night chat show back on BBC1.

We're not sure Lee Evans and Franz Ferdinand will want to join in, but we face the very real prospect of Twitter get some prime-time Friday night mainstream telly action is Wossy carries out his threat: "Will see if Stephen wants to Twitter on the show..."

Elevator Pitch: YourLocalLondon makes business info pretty for LondonersToday

Facing a sea of competition in the local business listings space, YourLocalLondon has taken a very focused approach by sticking just to London boroughs and using a more friendly, personal interface than rivals that focus on business search.

Co-founder Annie Allison started work on the site in April last year with private funding from her base in west London. She explains how the site works and their plans for the future.

Annie Allison and Nicola Hoare, co-founders of YourLocalLondon.com

• Explain your business to my Mum
"We are a city-wide community website broken down by area where people can chat online, contribute, share, learn and find out about all things local. A place that Londoners can feel connected with their local community."

• How does that work?
"Each local area has its own local editor who is passionate about where they