Foodspotting: There’s an app for that, Really?!
So I started this post well over two months ago, after learning about a new app called Foodspotting that presented here in New York at a meet-up group that’s quite popular, and regularly pulls in 700-800 people. I didn’t RSVP in time and the event was sold out and I didn’t have a chance to attend and see the demo in person so I tried to load it up and give it a trial run after the fact. Well that didn’t work out so well, something to do with the iPhone OS changeover or something, but alas a few months and a new release later its up and working for me.
When I first read the description of Foodspotting, my reaction was ‘really?! There is an app for that?’ I have occasionally seen folks sitting at a restaurant taking pictures of their food, but frankly I think it’s kinda weird… I like food and eat out regularly, and even consider myself a very minor league foodie… but I am sorry taking pictures of what I am eating just seems strange. Read more
Flook: A Browser for the Real World
You may have wondered what the founders of Symbian were up to these days, well it seems that they’re developing iPhone applications. Roger Nolan and Jane Sales formed development shop Ambient Industries and the first product to be released is named flook… as they describe it “the worlds first serendipitous discovery engine”.
While not easy to categorize at first glance, Flook is part browser, part twitter, part FourSquare all rolled into one from people who “hate maps and pins on small phones”. Read more
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