Foodspotting: Twitter and Foursquare Hook Up for Dinner (& Week in Review)

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Want a head start on the Next Big Thing? Sure you do, that’s (yet another) reason why you read Website In A Weekend!

Anyway, imagine Twitter and Foursquare go on a dinner date.

That’s Foodspotting!

Cool kids on the power curve

Here’s how it works. When you’re craving, say, balut, in Houston, do a search on Foodspotting for “balut.” Foodspotting searches it’s database, then returns you a list of all the places you can eat balut in Houston.

The cool part is that the whole Foodspotting database is user generated. When you’re out and about, you can take a quick snapshot of your favorite dishes and upload them to Foodspotting. You get points for this of course. Probably other stuff too, I forget now. But check it out, get on the Alpha list if you can.

Here’s a screenshot of the user interface:

Alexa (Foodspotting founder) just found some Paking Duck

I wonder if Alexa can get a tax write off for all her meals. This is a business expense for her right? Read more about Foodspotting, you saw it here first.

Blatant pitch for Bluehost

About a month ago, I swooped in and snatched dool.in for 10 years. After I purchased it, I needed to set up the Domain Name Servers to point at Bluehost’s servers, which required some customer service on Bluehost’s end.

It was fast and straightforward.

Here’s the last email exchange:

Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Blog post and testimonial coming,
I’m an affiliate for a reason.

-d

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Bluehost Support Team
wrote:
> Dave Doolin,
>
> The dool.in domain is setup on the tinobox.com account, that is pointing to the public_html/doolin folder. The new records may take 1-4 hours to resolve in our system.
>
> Thank you,
> Russel
> Level II Tech Support Engineer
> BlueHost.com

Bluehost is an excellent shared hosting provider. They are inexpensive and have very good customer service. Any issues I’ve had with Bluehost are common to all shared hosting providers. (TANSTAAFL.)

If you’re looking for a shared hosting, consider Bluehost.com.

[Disclosure: I am definitely an affiliate of Bluehost, and proud to recommend their shared web hosting service.]

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