In case you missed it, Facebook opened up new Timeline apps Wednesday so you can share even more with your friends. Among the additions: Foodspotting Ticketmaster Pinterest Rotten Tomatoes TripAdvisor and more What does this mean, besides even better targeted Facebook ads? (Check “How Apps Work” to see what apps can and can’t do with…
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Editor’s Note: This is article is a revised version of an article written by Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber that appears in the January 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like this article you might want to download the The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe to get the scoop in 2012….
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Angel-funded New York City startup Appetude has a plan – and part of that plan involves giving data to their competitors. More specifically, Appetude is contributing to OpenMenu, an open database of menus updated by restaurants. “We’re all innovating in food tech. Even if some person is going to compete with us, I still think…
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Tourists dining in Hong Kong can stumble upon some strange foods, like snake, chicken feet, tripe, or earthworms. Hong Kong startup Campusfork makes sure these dishes disgust you – or entice you – before they arrive on a plate. “Campusfork is a hassle-free way to find restaurant food photos,” says founder Rayfil Wong, a former…
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Apps based on reviews, and especially today’s smorgasbord of food apps, have a problem: some guy goes to restaurant X, turns his nose up at dinner, and crafts a one-star review dripping with disdain—“It would get zero stars if that were an option.” Reviews like this drag down overall ratings to an ambiguous three stars,…
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We all have our favorite ways to find places to eat, shop or play. But whether you are a religious Yelp user, or you strictly look for places your friends have checked-in to already on Foursquare, we all end up doing what Tapl.io co-founder Dave Riess calls the ‘Google Search Dance’. We search for…
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As part of Internet Week New York, which is June 6-13, Time Inc. announced their 10 NYC Startups to Watch based on input from editors at People, Time, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, InStyle and Real Simple. We were stoked to see a few familiar names on the list: Foodspotting was a showcased startup at…
Read MoreThere are plenty of web services that allow you to search and find restaurants and, more important, reviews about those establishments. The largest ones are probably Yelp and Open Table. There are also tons of other mobile apps like FourSquare that offer brief reviews as you “check in” at these locations. But what if you’re not necessarily looking for…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More