Foodie Search

Springwise: Billed as a “community of culinary tourism,” French Spoontrip is a place where travelers can book activities with local, gastronomy-minded providers while locals with a culinary flair can offer and advertise their own activities for free. Site-specific visits, meet-and-greets with producers, tastings, gourmet ateliers, cooking classes, weekend stays at a farm, and gastronomy-themed holidays are just a sampling of […]

Market Research from Social Networks

Aiming to provide higher-quality results at a lower price, Chicago-based Lab42 conducts its clients’ surveys not in artificially assembled panels but in the social networks where target respondents naturally spend their time. Lab42 takes the survey to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and smaller niche social networks, using highly targeted incentives to garner attention and responses. Two packages are available from Lab42: […]

Morning Pictures

TrendCentral: MorningPics links directly to Instagram to send users a daily pictorial blast from the past. Drawing from Instagram’s photo archive, which has built up impressively over its mere seven-month existence, MorningPics delivers a photo each morning directly to a user’s inbox. Each randomly chosen photo, plus related comments and likes, is meant to recall a memory or moment that […]

Pikimal, a Fact-based Search Engine

Pikimal’s mission is to help consumers make the best buying decisions. From data that is scattered, vast, and technocratic, Pikimal gathers it all in one place behind an intuitive interface aimed for use by everyday shoppers. Pikimal helps users choose amongst brands and types of products, allowing users find the product that best suits individual needs and preferences. Through Pikimal’s […]

Crowdsourced Farming

Springwise: The crowds have changed the shape of many enterprises over the years, be it through crowd-management, crowdfunding or crowdsourcing. However, MyFarm — a new project from the UK’s National Trust — takes crowd-management to an area we’ve never seen it before: farming. The 2,500-acre farm, which belongs to the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, is calling for 10,000 online farmers […]

ReviewPush Helps You Keep Up With Reviews

ReviewPush allows business owners to stay on top of their reviews in an efficient manner. Since there are so many user reviews sites popping up these days, it’s becoming more difficult for business owners to keep up with their reviews. ReviewPush monitors all of the top user review sites on a daily basis and alerts the business owner via email […]

GiftFinder on a Hunch

Trendwatching.com: In November 2010, Gifts.com and Hunch joined forces to create their GiftFinder app, which logs into Facebook and suggests suitable gifts for friends based on the information in their profile pages. The company said the conversion rate was up to 60% higher than when users were shown generic recommendations. The F-Factor [Trendwatching.com]

Peer Pressure Running System

Mashable: As some have discovered, social media can be used to hold yourself accountable for weight-loss goals. But what about for taking that scheduled run? Reebok hopes to play that role with a new app called The Promise Keeper available on the iPhone and Android. Reebok’s app tells your Facebook friends and Twitter followers when you plan to take a […]

Whrrl Your World

TrendBlog: Whrrl 3.0 is an Amazon-like recommendations engine for the real world. It offers personalized recommendations about places to go and specific things to do based on your interests and real-world activities. For example, checking into different record shops that specialize in indie music would make you a member of a music “Society.” Whrrl’s algorithms take into account your check-ins […]