This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
Few moves have had the potential to disrupt the entire delivery ecosystem - from grocery to restaurants to e-commerce- as the expansion of AmazonFresh.[...]
Red Meat Market wants to empower the local meat system by connecting restaurants and meat providers through a national campaign called “Eat it! Tweet it!”[...]
The USDA is stepping up their online engagement and open data efforts with the Google+ Hangout and follow-up Twitter Chat they are hosting in conjunction with their updated Know Y[...]
Rev Ciancio demystifies 10 social networks, helping restauranteurs learn how to use these platforms to foster brand awareness, online engagement and better customer service.[...]
There are two interesting pieces of news from last week on the ways social media is being leveraged to share information about food safety concerns, as well as to predict outbreaks[...]
Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect [...]
The recent “Food Dialogues” - organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the [...]
Studiofeast's Mike Lee decided to have a little fun during the Hurricane lockdown, asking his twitter followers : "Tweet me your hurricane food items, I'll tweet you back a recipe.[...]
The FAO hosted a tweet-up today on "Building a Food-Secure Future in the Horn of Africa." The discussion generated a fair amount of buzz from NGOs and interested world citizens ali[...]
How can data exhaust produced through social networks be leveraged to improve web search? What business models are emerging based on the monetization of digital assets rather than [...]
powered by Fotopedia Two weeks ago Danielle asked me what I thought of entering the WE Media Pitch IT! Challenge. I took a quick look at the site and quipped “I don’t see a downsid[...]
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, person[...]
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the website. The idea is to get everyone talking and make[...]
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead ti[...]
What a year for food and tech! It has been truly wonderful getting to know all of you over the past couple of months. I can’t wait to connect with more of you at the events ([...]
Oprah’s is in love it. It’s Cyber Week. Have you bought an iPad yet? When I first played around with an iPad back in April, I didn’t get it. [I didn’t Tw[...]
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On Tuesday, I posted about the AgChat Foundations #Foodthanks campaign aimed at engaging the public in sharing thanks with those that grow and get our food from farm to table. Curi[...]
This Thanksgiving the AgChat Foundation has launched foodthanks.com and is asking people to thank those who help to grow and provide our food. The site offers five simple tips for [...]
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Yesterday, the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) debate began in the Senate. The contentious S. 510 legislation will significantly expand the FDA’s regulatory authority [...]
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[...]
Miquel Ros had been an information manager at Bloomberg when he started on a ‘side project’ to create an interactive map of his favorite cheeses, their origins, and the[...]
I’ve started a weekly newsletter to help you keep up-to-date about interesting events, companies, and research that are changing the way we produce, distribute, and consume f[...]