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Polyculture+Tech Part I: The Permaculture Information Web- Growing Guilds
What would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like? A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds.
iTools: Building A System; Part 1 – The Dilemma
In this five part series, Bob Wall breaks down how created the interactive mapping system for the food sovereignty, urban agriculture zoning, and food policy council maps. In part 1, he discusses the dilemma that all those working with data face when they look to share it.
Farmonic Launches Field Management Platform for Sustainable Farms
Interview with Kareem Shaya, Founder of Farmonic, a field management platform for sustainable farms. Shaya is a developer with no agricultural background, but recognizes the immense opportunity to use information technology to address the challenges farmers face managing their fields.
Grubster Aims To Be The “Pandora of Social Restaurant Recommendations”
Meet Jonathan Shapiro, Founder of the recently launched Grubster, a new iPhone application and website that allows you to search for recommendations on specific dishes at a restaurant, currently available in New York and Austin. Like Eastdrink.it and Dinevore, Grubster wants to help you socialize, simplify, and optimize your dish choices at a restaurant. Shapiro
Human Cheese Questions Answered
My interview with Miriam Simun about her project making cheese from human breast milk, posted on both Food+Tech Connect and Grist, provoked a substantial amount of conversation. We are both fascinated by the range and quality of reactions, which ranged from disgust to interest in understanding the technical aspects and implications of production. Rather than letting
AnyLeaf Wants to Disrupt Grocery Industry Status Quo
“We knew that the data contained in the stack of weekly circulars on our dining room table was valuable, but could be much more valuable if it were presented in a more useful way. So we set about collecting the data and building a large database of pricing information.” Buying food is an act that
SXSWi Food+Tech Event- IdeaCOMM: Instant Data Evolves A Community
Join us in creating SXSW’s first-ever virtual farm-to-table community and feast on a new future of food. Sign up here to receive an invite. Want to have your startup featured at the event? We would love to invite yout to demo and pair your product with a chef who will use it to design the menu,
Dinevore: Helping You Curate & Personalize Restaurant Recommendations
The Internet has allowed for a democratization of ‘the expert.’ Restaurants and consumers must contend with the newly empowered voices of authority, whose feedback gets shared through channels such as Yelp, Menu Pages, Urbanspoon, Foursquare, Twitter, Blog posts, and more. But how do you vet the expert? Dinevore attempts to solve this problem by helping you
The Contest Challenge
powered by Fotopedia Two weeks ago Danielle asked me what I thought of entering the WE Media Pitch IT! Challenge. I took a quick look at the site and quipped “I don’t see a downside”. I knew that Danielle had most of the information needed for the application ready to go and a strong network
Grubwithus- Startup Brings People Offline To Make Connections Over Food
We go online for restaurant recommendations, recipes, dating, networking, and finding activity or interest groups, among other things. As our world becomes increasingly social, a growing number of startups are attempting to bridge the divide between digital and real life interactions. Sites such as Meetup.com have been extremely successful in leveraging technology as a tool
Real Time Farms Launches More Robust Food Information Platform
“We also think that if people feel they can use the data for other purposes besides viewing it on Real Time Farms, they’ll be more likely to want to participate. It’s a win-win.” – Real Time Farms Real Time Farms is a web platform that uses crowdsourcing to help you “connect the dots of your food
EATS+APPS: Feast on Food Apps During Social Media Week 2011
Food+Tech Connect is dedicated to building community for the growing food and tech sector- both online and off. I am thrilled to be working with Emily Cavalier of Mouth of The Border and Brian Quinn and Jonny Cigar of Noble Rot to bring the community together on next Tuesday, February 8, for an evening of great apps,
Video: January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare & Meatshare
January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare and Meatshare from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Food+Tech Meetup featured a conversation about developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities, moderated by Elizabeth Mcvay Greene. Matt Hatoun of Wholeshare and Melissa Mcewen of the Meatshare Meetup discussed how they are using
Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic Recipe Search
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine technology to create a more intelligent recipe search engine, similar to Amazon
Where’s The Beef? Defining Food+Tech Connect’s Value Proposition
Hamburgers Tonight!, originally uploaded by jamieanne. To develop revenues for a business plan you have to have a clear idea of the value proposition. Or, to put it simply: Who will pay for what? This is the meat of the plan – the beef in the bun. To develop sponsorship revenue estimates for Food+Tech Connect
