Netvibes All-in-One Food Trend Search

Netvibes allows me to view all my feeds and search widgets on one page, saving heaps of time. I accessed this blog effortlessly from within Netvibes itself.

I have email feeds and I'm wondering now if I can embed them rather than opening up my separate yahoo account? Yes there' s an email widget!

I'm imagining a plethora of search feeds tabbed for easy access, just add pages for each search term, refine search by targeting your word for example 'organic food trends', 'pumpkin trends', 'dairy trends'. Alternately clear old keyword and add new search terms each time you visit.

What looks most juicy is their Netvibes Ecosystem claiming to be the largest widget directory, I counted 189,513. You can embed tailored feeds into your Netvibes or iGoogle page from any widget here. Unfortunately the code is not given so I'm unable to embed here for illustration. Also beware that you update any widgets as a few of them are no longer functional.

Update 25th June 2010. The best thing about Netvibes that I have latently discovered is their 'reader view' which allows you to view posts/news items in the chronological order that they come in. This is easily organised from the sidebar.

Realtime Goodtime Food

Image courtesy Ewan M Flickr

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?
  

Smell The Future of Search

Image courtesy of WasabiNoise Flickr
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?
  

Chocolate Pie Chart

Thanks to danzden for 'sunday pie chart' via Flickr CC Search

Chocolate Fudge Pie Chart - information aesthetics

The current enthusiasm for all things visual thinking, visual search engines and visual graphing and mapping, loosely termed information aesthetics serves these Chocolateurs a piece of the pie.