| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.09.2015 | 5 Fantastic Foodie Apps for the Life is Beautiful Festival | Fascinating speakers and great bands are two reasons to check out the Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival this weekend in Las Vegas. But for some of us, it's all about the food. Foodies at Life is Beautiful will have the opportunity ... |
| 11.03.2015 | SXSW Accelerator continues to discover amazing new startups [Q&A] | The annual SXSW Accelerator competition presented by Oracle is set to take place on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15 at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
I spoke to Chris Valentine, event producer for SXSW Accelerator and ... |
| 31.10.2013 | Top 5 apps for finding good eats on the road | This post is brought to you by Sheraton. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
Chicago this week. Los Angeles the next. Road warriors face the continual challenge of finding good meals in shifting landsc... |
| 18.09.2013 | Meet Fork, an Instagram for food porn lovers to share their own meals | If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, you likely have those friends who just love posting pictures of food they eat. In fact, even I am occasionally guilty of this practice, once making it onto the “Picture of Asians Taking Pictures of Food” ... |
| 27.08.2013 | For The Conscious Consumer, An Online Retailer Called Zady | A new ecommerce site called Zady is bringing the conscious consumerism movement to the online retail space by showing shoppers exactly where the goods the carry come from. To that end, the site aims to blend commerce with storytelling in th... |
| 09.02.2013 | ‘Fastest rising startup’ closes $13.5M for fastest fading photos | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Comedian John Oliver may joke that SnapChat is designed for sending penis pictures, but the company is destined for a lot more.
SnapCha... |
| 31.01.2013 | Was Foodspotting’s $10 million exit really that attractive? | It’s all over the news now. San Franscisco-based food photo sharing app Foodspotting has been acquired by OpenTable to the tune of US$10-million.
But is a US$10-million exit attractive?
Prior to the acquisition, Foodspotting raised a US$7... |
| 31.01.2013 | Was Foodspotting’s $10 million exit really that attractive? | It’s all over the news now. San Franscisco-based food photo sharing app Foodspotting has been acquired by OpenTable to the tune of US$10-million.
But is a US$10-million exit attractive?
Prior to the acquisition, Foodspotting raised a US$750... |
| 29.01.2013 | OpenTable acquires Foodspotting for $10 million cash | Foodspotting will remain as a standalone company, while bringing its services to OpenTable
(Updated to reflect comment from Foodspotting)
Online restaurant booking service OpenTable has purchased Foodspotting, a photo-sharing application fo... |
| 29.01.2013 | Foodspotting Acquired By OpenTable On It’s Third Birthday | Foodspotting, the app that caught so many people's attention for creating a new place to share all those photos of food that we are consuming, announced today on its blog that it has been acquired by OpenTable for $10 million. Since the lau... |
| 29.01.2013 | Opentable Eats Up Foodspotting For $10M To Get More Social Around Its Booking Service | Opentable, the online restaurant booking service, has just announced that it is acquiring Foodspotting, the mobile app that lets users record and link to what they’re eating in restaurants and at home. The terms of the deal were not disclos... |
| 29.01.2013 | Foodspotting CEO Alexa Andrzejewski On The $10 Million Sale To OpenTable, And The Importance Of Telling Your Startup’s Story | The startup world woke up to some exciting news this morning, with the $10 million cash sale of restaurant dish photo sharing and recommendation app Foodspotting to online restaurant reservation giant OpenTable.
So were very pleased to have... |
| 30.11.2012 | Foodspotting Launches A Pilot Rewards-For-Photos Program In San Francisco | Foodspotting is launching a new feature today that allows restaurants to promote themselves to hungry locals and also provides one of the first big opportunities for the startup to make money.
Co-founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski said that... |
| 17.11.2012 | How Mobile Can You Go? A Mobile Take On Q3 Tech Earnings | Editor’s note: Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures and is based in Menlo Park. He focuses on early stage mobile, consumer and enterprise opportunities, and he serves on the boards of AppCentral (acquired by Good Technology), AppRed... |
| 15.11.2012 | Foodily launches “Food with Friends” to make online culinary conversations drool-worthy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
You already spends hours talking about food with your friends, and Foodily has come up with a better way to do it online. This food-lov... |
| 27.07.2012 | Foodivide takes the hassle out of settling restaurant tabs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dining out with friends is usually a pleasant experience — until the check comes. A startup called Foodivide just released a mobile app... |
| 19.07.2012 | Thanks To GrubHub Integration, Foodspotting Gets Food Ordering | Foodspotting users may find that their stomachs rumble when they use the photo-heavy app to discover new dishes and restaurants. Starting today, they’ll be able to act on that rumbling with just a few taps (and without having to leave their... |
| 27.06.2012 | Exclusive: Foodspotting Teams With The Melting Pot To Allow People To Take Pictures Of Cheese | At TechCrunch we like to get the rest of the story. That’s why we go in-depth, hard-hitting, and close to the ground. Nowhere is that clearer than in this hardcore, hardball, and soft cheese interview with the folks from the Melting Pot, a ... |
| 21.05.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Internet Week 2012 Highlights (Nerd Proms, Rooftop Parties, Will Arnett DJ’ing, Michael Stipe Sightings ‘n more!) | Aol’s Andrea Hong, GroupMe/Skype’s Steve Cheney, TechStars’ Justin Overdorff, Shelby.tv’s Chris Kurdziel and Lauren Appelwick, American Express’ Meghan Paul, Acquaintable’s Joel Rodriguez and Greycroft Partners’ Alisa Richter posing at the ... |
| 17.05.2012 | Check out Foodspotting’s new personalized picture menus for every restaurant | Foodspotting, once a repository for food porn, is branching out today with a new launch. The mobile app is now serving up personalized menus just for you, everywhere you go.
“We’re trying to be a picture menu for every restaurant, so we’ve ... |
| 17.04.2012 | VenueSeen: Social Media Monitoring Via Photography | VenueSeen launched their new platform today that lets businesses aggregate location specific sentiment, via social photography. What does that mean in layman’s terms?
It means this startup company will monitor and identify any shared photos... |
| 03.04.2012 | Ustream Integrates With Facebook Timeline For Sharing Live Videos With Friends | Live video streaming website Ustream today is launching an integration with Facebook’s new Timeline user interface. This means that users will be able to share the live videos they’re watching on Ustream with their Facebook friends in real-... |
| 06.03.2012 | Foodspotting CEO: It’s About Discovery, Not Food Porn | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As Foodspotting founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski prepared for the launch of the company’s third-generation app last month, she had an interesting challenge: making potential... |
| 29.02.2012 | Tasted Menu Takes On Foodspotting With New iPhone App | The team behind startup Tasted Menu thinks it has the technology to help you find the exact dish you’re looking for. The company is launching its iPhone app today (its website was already live), and it’s also expanding from its hometown of ... |
| 27.02.2012 | The 15 SXSW Parties You Really, Really Don’t Want to Miss | They are thinking about parties.
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You... |
| 20.02.2012 | Forkly 2.0 Puts Your Taste Graph To Use With New, Personalized Recommendations | Forkly, the food rating app from Brightkite founders Brady Becker and Martin May, just launched a major update dubbed “Forkly 2.0.” Along with a user interface overhaul which features a faster feed, bigger photos and an upgraded user profil... |
| 18.02.2012 | Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Jay Jamison, a Partner at BlueRun Ventures, who focuses on early stage mobile, consumer and enterprise investments. He also serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting, and Thumb.... |
| 01.02.2012 | It’s not just for food porn anymore: Meet the new Foodspotting | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The other night, over a heated (ha ha) conversation about soup, a new acquaintance asked me, “So, what’s the best soup in San Francisco... |
| 01.02.2012 | With Redesign, Foodspotting Aims To Be The Pandora For Food | CEO Alexa Andrzejewski would like you to know some things about Foodspotting: It’s not just for sharing food photos. And it’s not just for foodies.
Andrzejewski has been saying this for a while now, but with the redesigned Foodspotting app ... |
| 18.01.2012 | Facebook’s New Timeline Apps Introduce New Actions Like “Bought,” “Want” And “Love” | Facebook has partnered up with sixty different startups to add their “stories” to Facebook Timeline, through apps that span different verticals from Food, Fashion to Travel.
Already apps like Fab.com, Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pi... |
| 13.01.2012 | Grubwithus debuts iPhone app to book meals on-the-go | Grubwithus, the social-dining startup that helps people meet over meals in real-life, has launched an official iPhone app. The free mobile app is a promising step toward a future service that allows people to spontaneously book meals amongs... |
| 13.01.2012 | Grubwithus debuts iPhone app to book meals on-the-go | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Grubwithus, the social-dining startup that helps ... |
| 10.11.2011 | Recipe Search & Sharing Service Foodily Arrives On iPhone | Recipe search engine Foodily is arriving on mobile today, with an all-new iPhone application that will allow users to search recipes while on the go, see what recipes their friends have liked and share their own recommendations via photos s... |
| 02.11.2011 | iPhone app, The Eatery, broadcasts your food to friends | New app bets that you'll eat better if you know everyone is watching
Are you a mindless eater who is better at updating your Flickr page than tracking your calories? Then the new iPhone app, The Eatery, might be the app de jour for you. The... |
| 22.09.2011 | Facebook debuts ‘Lifestyle Apps’ for cooking, exercising and way more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook today showed off its new Lifestyle Apps, a set of applications for the social network that allow users to share information ab... |
| 22.09.2011 | Facebook debuts ‘Lifestyle Apps’ for cooking, exercising and way more | Facebook today showed off its new Lifestyle Apps, a set of applications for the social network that allow users to share information about their lifestyle activities, such as exercising, cooking, watching TV shows, picking out clothes and m... |
| 14.09.2011 | California Dreamin’: TalkTo, Tasted Menu, Bluefin Robotics, and Burst Media Make Bicoastal Noise | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/20/11. See below] The Silicon Valley vs. Boston tech scene discussion is a tired one, I know. But today we’ve seen a number of Boston-area companies make a splash w... |
| 30.08.2011 | Foursquare Moves In On Foodspotting with ‘Foodie Walk’ | foursquare.com
Food porn social network Foodspotting has arguably been threatened by Foursquare ever since the latter added photos to its check-ins. Dennis Crowley and Foodspotting co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski, “The king and queen of locat... |
| 26.08.2011 | URGENT: The Top 10 Hurricane Apps You Must Download Now – NYC Edition | iOS for iRene
As Missy Elliot would say, time to get your freak (out) on. Betabeat’s cabbie earlier today explained that he was from the Dominican Republic and would be battenting down the hatches at his house in Queens with techniques pass... |
| 23.08.2011 | Forkly Launches to Discover Food You’ll Like the Taste Of | Forkly is a beautiful new iPhone app that helps you discover new restaurants you might like and recommends dishes once you’re at restaurants, based on your individual taste. Built by former leaders of location based social network Brightkit... |
| 23.08.2011 | Brightkite founders launch Forkly, a fun app for foodies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new food-focused app called Forkly brings the discovery of delicious dishes to center stage — and it’s a beautiful stage, indeed. The... |
| 23.08.2011 | Forkly Enters The Soon-To-Be-Stuffed Mobile App Taste Space | Remember last year when it seemed like everyone was doing a location-based mobile app? One of the original players in that space, Brightkite, eventually got overshadowed by newer rivals. Now two of its founders are back with a new mobile st... |
| 10.08.2011 | FoodSpotting Spikes to 1 Million Downloads in 18 Months | Food photo social network FoodSpotting announced this morning that it has passed 1 million app downloads, just over 18 months after the service launched. The announcement came with newly designed, more social and brand-friendly iPhone and A... |
| 10.08.2011 | Foodspotting hits 1M downloads, adds new features | Don't read this story if you want to be successful in your new low-carb diet
Wow. Foodspotting waited until I made my quarterly resolution to cut down on the carbs to release a new video showing all of their favorite eats from around the wo... |
| 10.08.2011 | Foodspotting Hits A Million Downloads, Celebrates By Upping The Gluttony | I remember when I first wrote about Foodspotting a year and a half ago. At the time, nearly everyone I knew was using various social networks to share pictures of their food. Foodspotting was a service built around that very idea. That alon... |
| 14.07.2011 | Firespotter Labs Launches Nosh: A Food-Centric Instagram That’ll Tell You What To Order | The cofounder of Google Voice is back for more. And he’s hungry.
Back in May we reported on Firespotter Labs, a new incubator started by GrandCentral cofounder and CEO Craig Walker (GrandCentral was acquired by Google in 2007 and relaunched... |
| 24.06.2011 | Foodspotting Comes Out On Windows Phone 7 | Foodspotting, the food photo sharing app that has built a community around the sharing of specific dishes, is launching on Windows Phone 7 today. The Foodspotting Windows Phone app will retain all the functionality of the iPhone and Android... |
| 31.05.2011 | VinPass: Wine Lovers Can Now Check In | Today a new social game called VinPass launched. It’s an application for wine lovers to “share wine reviews, win badges and earn real rewards.” VinPass uses the ‘check-in’ paradigm popularized by location-based social network Foursquare and... |
| 11.04.2011 | Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer | Part of i/o Ventures first cohort, Pieceable is launching its first product today, the Pieceable Viewer. As you can see above with the Yelp app or here with apps like Hipmunk or Foodspotting, the viewer allows you to run and test out embedd... |
| 19.03.2011 | (Founder Stories) Foodspotting's Soraya Darabi On Women In Tech | Let’s face it, the tech industry is dominated by male geeks and alpha dog VCs. It’s not easy being a female founder in that environment. But as Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi tells Chris Dixon in Part II of her Founder Stories interv... |
| 18.03.2011 | (Founder Stories) Foodspotting's Soraya Darabi: "Most Social Networks Were Inspired By East Asian Tech Trends" | People love to take pictures of their food, especially with their mobile phones. And like all things mobile, apparently this activity started in Japan. “Most social networks have been inspired by East Asian tech trends,” declares Foodspotti... |
| 06.03.2011 | The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition | Editor’s note: the following is a guest post by Robert Scoble, who studies tech startups and innovators for Rackspace Hosting. His videos usually go up on Rackspace’s Building43. In the post he shares a tour he recently got of SRI Internati... |
| 05.03.2011 | A Look at Food and Drink APIs, Faceted Search and Google’s Dominance | Beer and WordPress go together very well. Beer tastes good and, when enjoyed in a pint glass, it gives a new sense of ways to think about all the fun things to do when exploring a WordPress blog.
The WordPress Brewery DB plugin allows you t... |
| 01.03.2011 | Android Users Get An Official Taste Of Foodspotting Just In Time For SXSW | Back in December of last year, I noted the existence of the first Foodspotting build for Android just in time for the holidays. Turns out, the app was a little undercooked — still in beta — and the team didn’t really want me giving out the ... |
| 24.02.2011 | Instagram Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its API | Today Instagram is adding real-time notifications to its API. What this means in practice is that developers will now be able to get instant notifications when new photos are added by specific users or with specific tags, geo-tags or a more... |
| 24.02.2011 | Instagram Unveils Realtime API With Foodspotting, Fancy, Momento, Flipboard, About.me And Others | It really is kind of amazing that Instagram has shot past two million users in just a few months with only an iPhone app. No Android app, no website, no real third-party support. But starting today, that changes as they’re finally ready to ... |
| 20.02.2011 | Women and Tech: Focus On Female Consumers And The Founders Will Follow | Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by TheIceBreak CEO Christina Brodbeck. Brodbeck is a UI designer, angel investor and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA.
Women in tech. I hate to say it, but I am tired of hearing about women... |
| 16.01.2011 | The Thin Wedge Of Quora | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. This is the second in a series of essays on Quora that he will post on TechCrunch. Shah is based in Palo Alto and... |
| 14.01.2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 01/14/11 | 14 startups raised a combined $300 million; Groupon triples that with its own $950 million
Seed
Milewise, a super stealth service that will help users redeem their frequent flyer rewards, raised $1.5 million in debt financing. The company w... |
| 10.01.2011 | Foodspotting Scoops Up $3 Million From BlueRun Ventures | Location-based food discovery tool, Foodspotting has just picked up 3 million in series A funding from BlueRun Ventures, days shy of its one year anniversary on January 15th. Angels from the previous $750k seed round will also be following ... |
| 10.01.2011 | Foodspotting secures $3 million Series A | The next year will be huge for mobile and mobile-based startups; Foodspotting will be a part of that
Food discovery service Foodspotting announced Monday that it has secured $3 million in Series A funding led by BlueRun Ventures with follow... |
| 10.01.2011 | Foodspotting Thinks It’s Ready to Blow Up | If you haven’t tried the food photo social network app Foodspotting, you’re missing out. The company announced today that it has raised $3 million in venture capital to fund further international expansion and to build what it calls “Pandor... |
| 05.01.2011 | Hitpost Aims To Score With Couch-Loving, Smartphone-Wielding Sports Fanatics | Many startups arise when someone notices a lot of people doing the same thing in a disorganized or sort of convoluted way. One example is how Foodspotting came about because so many people were using services like Twitter to share pictures ... |
| 24.12.2010 | Just In Time To Pig Out For The Holidays, Foodspotting Beta Hits On Android | It was exactly one year ago today that Foodspotting sent out the first test build of their app to a few iPhone users. Today they’re finally doing the same for Android — and they’re opening the beta up to everyone.
Yes, the application which... |
| 20.12.2010 | Foursquare’s Holiday Gift to You | Mobile geolocation service Foursquare has announced new functionality – the ability to post both photos and comment via the application.
Foursquare members, which the company says now top 5 million, can now post comments on their friends' “... |
| 20.12.2010 | Yelp Comes to the iPad, Featuring Photos, Better Browsing | Long a popular iPhone app for those looking for local recommendations, Yelp has finally released an app for the iPad. The app isn’t simply a port of the iPhone features to the iPad, as it’s designed to take full advantage of the larger scre... |
| 20.12.2010 | Foursquare Checks In Comments And Pictures; Instagram, PicPlz, Foodspotting On Board | Earlier this month, location-based service Gowalla went on the offensive against rival Foursquare — by linking up with them. Yes, they created a way for you to use Gowalla to check-in on Foursquare (and Facebook). Why would they do that? Be... |
| 17.12.2010 | What you need to know - Friday 12/17/10 | Citrix Online buys Netviewer; Foodspotting buys Eat.ly; Tribune buys CastTV; Yahoo stops services
Citrix Online is going to acquire Netviewer, a SaaS vendor based in Germany. Netviewer is going to be integrated into the online services divi... |
| 16.12.2010 | Foodspotting Swallows Food Sharing Community Eat.ly | Foodspotting, the service that allows you to take pictures of your food to share with others, is acquiring a competitor in the space: Eat.ly. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Eat.ly’s team writes: With a best-in-class iPhone ... |
| 29.11.2010 | Foursquare Testing Version 2 Of Their API. "It's 1000x Faster" | The geolocation wars are well underway. If you need any proof of that, simply look at this thread in Quora. A startup posted a question wondering which place database they should use for their new check-in app. The responses? Foursquare: Us... |
| 19.11.2010 | Forkly Unstealths Itself: A Mobile Recommendation Network For Your Tastebuds | Back in September, we broke the news that not only had two of location startup Brightkite’s founders left the company, but that they were working on a new project together. While we weren’t able to dig up much about the new startup at the t... |
| 17.11.2010 | Instakarma: Instagram Expands Team And Moves Into Twitter's Original Office | A few weeks ago I wrote about some office space that was available in the South Park area of San Francisco’s SoMa district. Why was it interesting? Because it was Twitter’s original office. And that’s exactly how the startup that currently ... |
| 11.11.2010 | Sandbox's international network of young entrepreneurs is looking for the French Mark Zuckerberg | Sandbox, a London-based international network of entrepreneurs under the age of 30, announced this week that it would be launching in France. Funny coincidence, this announcement comes just 1 week before the first edition of TechCrunch Fran... |
| 10.11.2010 | Dear Tech Press: Let's Cut Through The Nonsense And Focus On Active Users | The technology press can be a strange beast sometimes. We’ll quibble over facts and quotes that were mentioned in jest or passing (oftentimes in less than 140 characters). But, inexplicably, we’re willing to regurgitate statistics that are ... |
| 15.10.2010 | The Evolution of Foodspotting & its Plans to Expand Beyond Food | This year check-in apps have moved beyond location, to encompass every thing from checking into movies, books, songs and (yes) even food. Foodspotting launched last November and has quickly built up a passionate following of foodies. It ena... |
| 13.10.2010 | AOL relaunches City's Best | Web users can go online and vote for their favorite businesses until Nov. 30
AOL announced Wednesday that it is re-launching its City’s Best guide, a Yelp-like directory of reviews and tidbits on local bars, restaurants, and other stops. Or... |
| 27.09.2010 | Hungry? The State of Food Recommendation Engines | Where should we eat lunch? What should we have for dinner tonight? Recommendation engines try to match our tastes to music, movies and books – why not help us answer these other eternal questions? Here are a few sites that try to do just th... |
| 27.08.2010 | 7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech – Please Send Us More | The technology press is full of stories of heroic men. In the startup economy, they often take the form of brave men who quit steady day jobs to join crazy startups. That’s an inspiring kind of story; I wrote about Louis Gray doing that ear... |
| 25.08.2010 | Seed Funding for Foodspotting Brings More Praise for AngelList | Food recommendation service Foodspotting announces today that it has closed a $750,000 round of seed funding led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from 500 Startups, High Line Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures and 2020 Ventures. Toda... |
| 25.08.2010 | Foodspotting Investors Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are With $750K Seed Round | People love taking pictures of food. It’s just a fact of life. Don’t even bother arguing about it. It’s just the way it is. Case in point: Foodspotting, the service which asks you to take pictures of your food to share with others. People l... |
| 25.08.2010 | Foodspotting whips up $750K in seed funding | The food-based check-in looks yummy to Felicis Ventures and several angels
I am your classic fat kid. I love food. Absolutely, LOVE food. I moved into my new house for no other reason than it is behind a pizza place.
Seriously.
But I am not... |
| 13.08.2010 | Zagat First Partner To Integrate Foodspotting Photos And Guides | Foodspotting and Zagat Survey, two major food focused brands we’ve featured here before, have today announced an iPhone app integration move that pretty much sets the pace for mobile social dining in the future (You listening Michelin?).
Za... |
| 05.08.2010 | Founderspotting: Steve Jobs, He's Just Like Us! | As in sometimes it’s hard for him to get a table without a prior reservation … Foodspotting founder Alexa Andrzejewski snapped the above pic of Apple demi-god Steve Jobs outside of San Francisco hotspot Flour + Water over the weekend.
What’... |
| 13.06.2010 | iOS 4 Is Going To Up The Ante For Location-Based Startups | Yesterday, Robert Scoble wrote a post about “Foursquare’s Yelp problem.” It’s an interesting read, with some good thoughts about how Foursquare can withstand feature-copying from a much larger rival. He asked for my thoughts, so I figured I... |
| 04.05.2010 | Fiddme Lets Foodies Share Their Favorite Dishes With The World | (This is a review of one of the 7 startups presenting today at Techonomy 2010 in Tel Aviv. To read about the others, browse all posts tagged ‘techonomy’.)
Fiddme, publicly launching in beta today, is a social network for foodies that love t... |
| 19.03.2010 | Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I'm Rooting For An All-Out Location War. | I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to... |
| 04.03.2010 | Foodspotting Is A Location-Based Game That Will Make Your Mouth Water | The idea was a way to show people the best food in Japan beyond sushi — to literally show them, in picture form. Then the thought morphed into writing to a book, where the best food in the world was shown. But that’s a lot of travel for one... |
| 27.11.2009 | Foodspotting: Foursquare meets Food Porn | After eating the best meal of your life, it’s hard to forget the experience. It’s not unusual for individuals to spend a decade in search of the perfect New York-style pizza in California or the best ramen in London. At this level of obsess... |
| - | Documentário de startups mostra: "ou você está tendo o melhor dia da sua vida, ou está pensando em morrer" | Sam Lessin, em uma entrevista ao documentário ‘The Startup Kids’
O empreendedor Sam Lessin, que vendeu sua startup Drop.io para o Facebook, descreveu assim a vida do empreendedor: “Esse é o jeito mais maníaco-depressivo que você poderia viv... |
| - | Documentário de startups mostra: "ou você está tendo o melhor dia da sua vida, ou está pensando em morrer" | Sam Lessin, em uma entrevista ao documentário ‘The Startup Kids’
O empreendedor Sam Lessin, que vendeu sua startup Drop.io para o Facebook, descreveu assim a vida do empreendedor: “Esse é o jeito mais maníaco-depressivo que você poderia viv... |
