Foursquare gets meatier with addition of 13M menu items

Delivering on its promise to make the real world easier to use, location-sharing startup Foursquare has added the menus of nearly 250,000 U.S. restaurants to its service today.

The new menu feature, powered by SinglePlatform, provides members with a detailed look at more than 13 million menu items offered at restaurants, with caloric information and pricing available for some locations.

Menus can be found on the web and at the company’s mobile site – but … Continue Reading

Ness, the iPhone app that tells you where to eat, hooks up with Facebook

What’s for dessert? Turn to three month-old Ness for the answer, and its lovely-looking iPhone app will find you the best nearby spots, suited to your exact tastes. Today the application received its first update, and it now further personalizes and socializes the food discovery process.

“The launch of the product … was all about understanding what the person’s preferences are and making sure, as a company, that we provided high quality results and recommendations … Continue Reading

Loku boils down big data into bite-sized, neighborhood nuggets

In a world where  information overload is driving us further apart, a startup called Loku has launched a technology to connect neighbors to their community and help people find cool things to do nearby.

Loku boils down huge feeds of data from sources such as local blogs and weekly newspapers, social media, restaurant reviews and deals, arranging them in a gorgeous webzine layout that’s automatically customized for your neighborhood. Currently Loku is rolling out in … Continue Reading

Can Sprout Social survive in crowded social monitoring market?

Sprout Social, a social media management and monitoring tool for businesses, today announced its official unveiling and public availability to all businesses. The company announced in May that it won backing from Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, through their recently launched investment fund Lightbank.

Sprout Social gives customers a single Web-based dashboard to manage and grow all their social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. The tool monitors the web for social brand mentions … Continue Reading