Wiffiti- Tweek your Tweets and Trends

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Locate Food trend Buzz via Wiffiti including real time search and display. Tag your Wiffiti screen with "Food Trend" or other food search term and Wiffiti immediately feeds results via Flickr and Twitter.

Used with your mobile you can text directly to fellow food enthusiasts. Wiffiti is designed to be used for signage and LCD displays. It is effective for spicing up your presentations and blogs too.

Twizza Hut

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Tweeting Becomes a Summer Job Option - NYTimes.com

Today I found this link via @NLearning on Twitter. Pizza Hut is advertising a job for a Summer Twittern (a summer intern who uses Twitter).

This looks to be both a preemptive and defensive publicity move by Pizza Hut, following on from recent bad publicity wreaked by former employees of Dominos Pizza chain on Youtube.

Monitoring Twitter for feedback and simultaneously marketing in 140 characters job applicants must "demonstrate social-media skills through some kind of creative response". Pizza Hut anticipate plenty of YouTube video uploads from savvy students vying for this unique opportunity.

Some Questions

• How does this reflect on your social media practices? Do you think using social media will assist your prospective employment opportunities? Why/why not?
  

• How else might Twitter/micro blogging be used for food marketing? Give 3 examples.

• How should Dominos Pizza have best responded?

• Can you envision applying for work by uploading a Youtube video? Why/why not?

Lesson Idea

• Create a 3 minute video application for your dream (hospitality) job. Who are you directing it to? What do you know about them? How can you further find out about this person? Who else might know? Who can you ask? How? What qualities do you think are needed for the job? How do you best meet these yourself? What qualities do you still need to develop?
  

Realtime Goodtime Food

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Recently I've found a run of realtime searches integrating Twitter that incorporate local search and food search but of course with the added dimension of community. Food and community, that's a tasty combo!

• I've introduced the Locavore iphone/ipod app already so instead here are;
• @Locavore who Twitter resources/ideas for sustainance and sustainability.
• Aperitweat a Realtime Twitter search community for lovers of Italian food living in London.
• Realtime search results on Google? A Firefox add-on uses the Greasemonkey script to include Twitter results. This is highly relevant for local and specialised search. To install follow link above and download Greasemonkey first as a Firefox add-on. This sits under your Tools tab in 'Add-ons'. Secondly use this link to install the Twitter/Google search script. The two synchronise automatically by installing the combined search results after you restart your Firefox Browser. Works well on Flock browser too.
  

Some questions

• What does community add to Realtime Food Search?
• What Twitter app can you envision related to food? How would you go about designing it/having it designed? By whom?
• Why is local connected to Realtime Search? Whats useful about it? What's not?
• How are you using Realtime search?
  

Locavore Locates Local Fresh Food

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Enjoymentland » Locavore 1.0 is now available!

Buster McLeod recently released Locavore a "powerful but simple application for iPhone and iPod" that uses built in GPS to find the freshest in season produce nearest to you. This app merges health consciousness, local, and mobile trends with the trend for Real Time Search ensuring access to the freshest information. See also previous post about BakerTweet. It also links in with the Frugality trend.

Locavore partners with LocalHarvest.org, the Natural Resources Defense Council and "will continue to improve and be updated over time."

"Connects users to recipes from Epicurious and links to Wikipedia through a simple to use and intuitive interface... features fruits and vegetables with beautiful full-color images of each."

Some Questions

• How might this app be of use to you? Who else is it assisting? Why?How?
  
• When would you likely use it?
• What other devices could it be integrated with?
• What difference does it make to eat seasonal fruit and vegetables?
  
• Why is 'local' important at this time?
• What is Real Time Search? Why is it significant and why is it trending now?
• What other iPhone app could be useful for Realtime food search?
  

BakerTweet Piped Hot!

BakerTweet broadcasts a local baker's freshly baked produce to their nearby hungry followers using a (bakery proof) box that transmits wirelessly to Twitter. Some like it hot!

clipped from www.bakertweet.com Baker Tweet Lovely, layered bloomers, french baguettes, sourdough, traditional bridge, and many more breads, still steaming 17 minutes ago from Albion's oven It was made by Poke. We're a digital creative agency based across the road from the Albion and, perhaps selfishly, we wanted a way to get the freshest baked stuff first. Then we realised it could be a great tool for bakers everywhere.

Find Food Trend Conversations across Social Networks

This is a brand new search service developed by Steve Hargadon Steve is currently convening Ning in Education.

You can search across Ning, Blogger,Google Groups, Yahoo Groups,Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku and Twine. Or you can type in your preferred food trend below! I've used a service called Clipmarks to directly embed these search boxes into this blog.

Conversations.net - Home

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clipped from www.conversations.net

Just Search Ning

Or you can also try:

• Ning's Own Search

Just Search Blogger

Or you can also try:

• Google Blog Search
• Technorati Blog Search

Just Search Twitter

Or you can also try:

• Twitter's Own Search
  

Just Search Plurk

Just Search Jaiku

Just Search Twine

Just Search Google Groups

Or you can also try:

• Google Groups Search Page

Or you can also try:

• Yahoo Groups Search Page

Just Search Yahoo Groups