Smell The Future of Search

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The DaVinci Institute - The Future of Libraries

Search Technology is to become more complicated...

Beyond image, text, video and audio search, future thinker Thomas Frey writes that taste, smell, texture, reflectivity, opacity, mass, density, tone, speed, and volume will all become search able attributes.

Some Questions

• How might this impact on Food bloggers?

• Food markets?

• Food Products?

• Who else?
  

A Customised Food Bar? C/o the Niche Web!

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Customized Nutrition Bars - You Bar - Build-a-Bar

The current trend for bespoke and DIY customisation is the direct result of the web's long tail. The Long Tail is ecommerce jargon for how unique and individual products are served to the masses via websites. There are enough people searching for unique niche products that somewhere someone can cater for them and still make money. As well consumers and producers can collaborate because costs on the web are lower and both access and exchange is so immediate.

Amazon has this business model-they provide books that may only get a few searches a day but the totality of all those rare book sales make up the majority of Amazon's overall revenue.

In the You Bar DIY mass customisation business model, customers build their own energy bars. First choose the base from a range of nut butters. Next add up to 3 protein powders, 2 seeds/nuts, add dried fruit/berries, sweeteners, tasty extra options (chocolate), grains, fibre or vitamin infusions, special requests and many further customised options available.

Name your bar and receive a box full to give to your friends!

Some Questions

• How might this business model be applied to your own food product ideas?

• If this is a model that appeals to you then locate 3 more examples.

• How might you take this business model Offline?
  

• Does it lend itself to bespoke packaging design? How? Why/not?

• What other questions does this idea raise in your mind? Note them down in your blog and go ask an expert foodie/blogger.

The Value Added Blog Post

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Adding Value

When posting to your food blog quality is important. The point is not whether you are a success to your readers/peers. What is far more important than your personal blogging style is the quest for quality. How can I make the information better?

The habit of quality is the habit of finding a better way, a better possibility, a better view, a better choice, a better alternative, a better outcome, a better attitude, a better opinion, a better life.

The net is not the place for the 'whatever-I-can-get-away-with' attitude. When you add your video, audio, poll, image, graphic, widget, opinion, review, product ask yourself how am I contributing and improving upon what is already available? Your contribution is indelibly inscribed into the data-stream. Professional Bloggers always return to posts tweaking to improve upon them. By your adding value to the whole we are closer to solving both global and local problems.

Thinking Coach/author/speaker Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson emphasised the 'Habit of Quality'
"Quality is better. Quality is improvement. Quality is general excellence."

Some questions

• What is your blog's 'vision'?
• How can you create a better vision for your blog?
• What is better about your favourite Blogger?
  
• How can you improve the overall quality of your blog?
• How can you raise the quality of your posts? Be specific, make a list. Do one item straight away.
  
• How can you raise the quality of your comments?
• How can you raise the quality of your information?

From Flickr to your Blog via Net or a Mobile Phone

Friday Night Tribute to Flickr! (a.k.a. Things To Do With A Mobile Phone) :), originally uploaded by dsevilla.

Flickr's "Blog This" feature enables any food blogger to use exquisite images easily. Ensure that you use this feature with Flickr Advanced Search so that your images are creative commons only. Its a very good idea to comment on the photostream where you found the photo, so that the photographer knows you appreciate their work and let them know your use/url.

I've summarised from Flickr below.

• Sign up for Flickr, sign in, look for the little "Blog This" button on top of the photo or video, press to send-the main thing is to have your post already written and cut paste it into your new blog this window.

• Moblog! Send photos from your phone to your blog via Flickr. Get your special Flickr email address to send your photos to. Photos uploaded to the new address will be blogged automatically and posted into your Flickr photostream.When you upload photos via email, use the subject line to give your photo a title, and the body of the email to give it a description.

• If you have a cameraphone AND a blog, you can post directly to your blog from your phone in one easy step. There is a really simple mobile version of Flickr available too, though you can only log in to it if you have a Yahoo! ID.

Search Wikipedia Articles

Powerset Wikipedia Article Search.

Powerset says- In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset's technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.

I have found completely different information by using this search tool compared with the Wikipedia search function. I found the 2008 Best Food Blog recipient Tartelette here as well as Dana Mc Cauley's blog, both of which I have subscribed in my blog links. Dana is a Food Trend Spotter, author, presenter, recipe crafter, blogger and food and beverage marketer.
Discover her Trend radar...

You may use the search box below but clear it first! Or use link in title above.

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Oh no, here come the Food Bloggers

Oh no, here come the Bloggers, originally uploaded by Brett L..
Why use Blogger?

Blogger Video Privacy Settings

You can use the Google Blogger platform to create class blogs. There are several boxes under settings that can be adjusted so that no one but your fellow classmates/teachers can view your blog. I highly recommend Blogger for Food Trend Spotting because of the interactive feeds, plugins, comments, free hosting etc but also ease of use.

How to Blogger Videos

Set up Blogger within minutes.

Blogger Features

Blogger is constantly being added to by a team of Google developers. Here are the current reasons to use Blogger for your project. Including customizable drag and drop templates, spell check, group blogging, post from mobile phone and third party apps.

How to Foodie Blogging

Inspiration to get you started.

Lesson Ideas

• using Blogger and various search tools and resources identify and aggregate the new trends and distill how they affect children/youth. Include marketing and advertising, childrens health, school lunches, product descriptions, packaging design, ingedient analysis etc.

Food Blog S'cool

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Food Blog S'cool

This is a Food Blogging Community that help each other to digest the blogging technicalities and other delicacies. It may be useful if you decide to start your own food blog. Go for it! Ill add a few links to assist your start.

• You can sign up for free hosted blogs at www.wordpress.com, www.blogger.com.

• If you choose to create a commercial/farther reaching blog you will want to pay for hosting and choose www.wordpress.org or another like www.moveable type.com.

• Note that Wordpress.org does not provide free hosting like Wordpress.com, but has an incredible Opensource community that enables high performance for your blog. This means people will find you and interact with you through multiple plugins. And that you need to buy hosting see Wikipedia link above. I have chosen 'blogger' for ease of use, but I will use Wordpress next blog. Moveabletype is recommended for Design/Art blogs.
  

What is a Blog and Why Blog?

A succinct visual instruction on the use of blogs.

Food Buzz Search Of the Day Widget

Food Buzz is a Social Foodie Community, where you can tap into the recent buzz generated by a host of food Bloggers/photographers and others.

Ive embedded the Search of the Day Widget into my blog page on the right. Search this to find the most popular ingredients/recipes/restaurants/products/Bloggers today. Watch the foodie Blogosphere from the comfort of your own blog.

Search FoodBuzz itself below to locate Bloggers and their ingredients! Just type in your ingredient, recipe, restaurant, product or foodie blogger below. Press Enter to gain access to results.

You can submit your own entries and write product and restaurant reviews.

clipped from www.foodbuzz.com home my profile foodies restaurants recipes products clipped from www.foodbuzz.com Widgets and Badges "Share some buzz! To display a Foodbuzz badge or widget, copy the html code directly into your site template where you would like it to appear. The image and content will update automatically from our website when the information changes."