With the announcement of the Facebook Platform, we went ahead and ported our Daily Dining Picks Google Gadget over to work as an application on Facebook. As we get some more time and experience working with the Facebook Platform, we’ll definitely be creating some more interesting applications.
If you have a Facebook account (or want to […]

We just rolled out another new feature: RSS feeds for recent reviews of a city’s restaurants. If you use a feed reader to keep up on blogs, you can use your reader to keep track of new restaurant reviews for your favorite city. For example, you can go to our Seattle restaurants page, and you’ll […]

In case you haven’t heard of it, Twitter is an online service that allows you essentially to send small messages to groups of your friends, perhaps to keep them informed about what you’re currently doing. Someone described it to me once as being able to send out instant messages (IMs) to a bunch of friends […]

I’m sure you’ve been in a situation where you want to go out to eat, but no one has an idea of where to go. We’ve put together a Google gadget for your Google Homepage that should be able to help you out next time that happens to you. If you tell it your city […]

I just went through and did some housekeeping, removing a good number of duplicate restaurants that decided to appear while I was importing data. I’m not sure why they reared their evil heads, but the dopplegangers are gone now, and the good citizens of Idaho will no longer see two of each restaurant in Coeur […]

I’ve added a few little things to improve the usability and to make it a bit more interesting in general.
First, I’ve added a Top Reviewers list to the home page. Looks like Aaron has taken a huge lead with 31 reviews.
I’ve also improved the city pages a bit. Where they were just a search results […]

Thanks to ChefMoz, I’ve been able to add a considerable number of restaurants from around the country. There are still many that aren’t in the database, but the coverage is immensely better now. I look forward to filling in the holes in my data and helping out the ChefMoz project by providing some of the […]

After deciding to start uploading large batches of restaurants, it seemed like it would be a good thing to take the focus from submitting restaurants to reviewing restaurants. That’s, after all, what the point is, no?
The “Submit a Restaurant” link in the header has been replaced with “Review a Restaurant” that will first do a […]

I’ve started adding batches of new restaurants for entire metropolitan areas. I’ve started small, with two places dear to my heart: Jamestown, NY and Toledo, OH. Those were chosen mainly because the data would be manageable for my first attempts at this, and things seemed to have worked out with them. I’ll be adding more […]

I hear all the kids these days are crazy about blogs and putting widgets on their blogs and stuff like that. To make the kids happen, then, I created a widget that can be used in blogs or any other web page that will allow you to post a small javascript snippet. I’ve got one […]