What if you could you could scan your food to get a complete picture of its calories, ingredients and allergens, all in just 3 seconds? Welcome to the future, folks. TellSpec, a re[...]
Interoperability of data and systems are virtually non-existent when it comes to agriculture. But one company hopes to change that. On Wednesday, AgSquared, providers of cloud-base[...]
To help our readers hack the food system, Food+Tech Connect partnered with General Assembly (GA)–an educational community that offers classes, workshops, and long form courses in t[...]
It was a weekend of communal ideation, open conversation, hands on hacking and farm-to-fork eating. For 48 hours on June 21-23, over 250 food industry experts, farmers, tech[...]
Earlier this year, corporate food giants Kraft and Nestlé Australia opened up their recipe and ingredient data to developers and consumers. While these are just first steps, we hop[...]
Last Saturday, a carefully curated group of developers and hackers gathered at Pivotal Labs for Ordr.in’s daylong HackFood event. The theme was food. The plan was to hack. And that[...]
The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of historical restaurant menus in the world—around 45,000 in total. The NYPL makes the data available via CSV and an [...]
Locu is a local-data company that began by helping restaurants digitize and share their menus. With its new API, it has a chance to become the backbone of applications that help us[...]
Earlier this month, GoodGuide, one of the first startups to rate products on health, social and environmental factors using a scientific, research-driven approach, was acqui[...]
The USDA is looking for input from the public to help determine the APIs and mobile optimized websites they should prioritize development of between now and May 23, 2013. [...]
APIs are transforming the way we eat. Whether it’s at home, or when you are dining out, consumers (and developers) are empowered like never before. The combination of a great us[...]
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farm[...]
Yesterday, in part 1, I outlined how quickly the world of technology is changing. John set the bar by accessing open source code from Google and said: “Look, the map is up. Now wha[...]
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Last week, I posted a provocation for a ‘Massive Brainstorm‘ on how we could use social media to affect the 2012 Farm Bill. Inspired by the use of social media in the m[...]