iEat

What is the iEat application?

It appears that the “i” phenomenon is still going strong, with the lower case vowel being attached to anything that involves electronics and has a chance to be trendy. While I’m in the opinion that it is completely overused, it does have its successes like the iPhone or the iEat facebook application.

iEat provides a simple solution to searching for restaurants in various areas and lets you share your feelings, by reviewing them, with your friends. Searching for restaurants is easy. Type in the name or put in a city/state to see what’s in your area. Another option is selecting the WTLE 100 for your city, which brings a pop up window to browse the top 100 rated restaurants (according to the WTLE select) for that area.

Rating restaurants is simplified where you can give it your opinion by granting the place 1 to 5 forks. Reviews are done separately and show up in your profile, where you can display your favorites, your top 5 restaurants, your intended dining plans, places you want to try, your friends on iEat, and your food profile-a way to demonstrate your eating habits.

The restaurants that are listed each have their own sort of profile that provides the address and phone number, the places website, various other information (does it have patio seating, price range, etc.) and shows the most recent ratings and reviews for the establishment. Each restaurant has it’s own wall, where comments can be posted.

Pros

• Easy way to browse restaurants in your area and see what people think of them
• Can send invitations to your friends so everyone can meet up for a meal
• Grubn’ section let’s you post pictures of yourself eating that other iEat users can view
• Highly detailed restaurant profiles

Cons

• The cities that are covered are limited
• You can add new restaurants to the list (iEat provides a way to search the internet), but this too is limited in what can be selected and it’s hard to narrow down the search.

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My Food Fix

What is the My Food Fix Application?

My Food Fix is an application dedicated to those of us who are food aficionados. You can tell your friends what you are currently are snacking on and even upload pictures of delicious items to invoke a visual foodgasm.

The strongest point of My Food Fix is the ability to review restaurants. You get to list the overall quality, the quality of the food, rate the service, and evaluate the price. You can even recommend specific menu items. All reviews are saved on your Food Fix profile so your friends can see your reviews (and vice versa) and your favorite places to dine.  If you find a place you particularly like, you can add it to your list of favorites which is then posted to your facebook profile.

Reviews are also posted by network, so you can easily see what people in the same area liked or didn’t like about local restaurants. An excellent feature of the review section is that restaurant’s address and a map (linked to google maps) is automatically provided.

After conducting reviews, My Food Fix automatically creates a “My Tags” list for easy browsing of dining establishments with similar topics. It also lets you see what your friends are currently interested in or what they are craving.

So here’s my review for My Food Fix application
Service: ****
Price: ****
Overall: ****

What I would like to see is a way to provide links to a restaurants’ websites or contact information like phone numbers to make reservations. It would also be cool to have the ability to upload menus.

Pros

• Big potential for seeing what’s good in your area
• Reviews are easy to do and everything is organized

Cons

• Not really a con, but you can select only one preferred location (what I assume is your network). It would be nice to view more than one location at once or to search by city for those of us who travel.
• Unsure what the “peanuts” are for
• No way to edit your review

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Restaurant Wars Facebook Application

What is the Restaurant Wars Facebook Application?

Restaurant Wars is a really unique Facebook app. It’s a cool hybrid of a fun social game and restaurant review app. The object of the game part of the app is to increase your “food taste” score. You start out at as a dumpster diver with a score of zero. Your score goes up based on

• the number of restaurants you’ve reviewed
• how close your review score is to how other Facebook users have rated the restaurants
• by winning a Restaurant War against your Facebook friends.

The way you play Restaurant War is to to pick a restaurant your friend has reviewed and give it your rating. The winner is determined by who’s rating is most in line with other Facebook users. The idea is when you’re arguing with your friends about which restaurant is better, you can get on Restaurant Wars to see who has the masses on their side. It’s a lot fun.

Restaurant Wars Pros

• Discover great new places to eat
• Find out which places are the most popular
• Make deciding where to have lunch with your friends by declaring a restaurant war on them.
• Get directions and a map to each restaurant
• Over 100,000 restaurants to choose from

Restaurant Wars Cons

• Nada. Great app! Very creative and fun to use.

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Beer Wars Facbook Application

What is the Beer Wars Facebook App?

Beer Wars lets you show your Facebook friends what your favorite beers are and which beer you’re enjoying at the moment. After you input what your favorite beers are, you can see what the all time favorite beers are amongst Facebook users are. Additionally, Beer Wars will make recommendations of beers you should try based on your tastes. Pretty cool!

Beer Wars Pros

• It’s super fun!

  

• Takes advantage of Facebook’s social network by making recommendations of beers to you based on your tastes and what other who share your tastes enjoy
• It looks great in your Facebook profile
• Tons of beers to choose from.

Beer Wars Cons

• I couldn’t find anything wrong with this app! Well done!

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Booze Mail Facebook Application

What is the Booze Mail Facebook Application?

Booze Mail allows you to send a virtual drink to your Facebook friends. You have a wide selection to choose from: screwdrivers, beers, Jack and Coke. As of this writing, they even have Simpsons beverages like Duff Beer, Flaming Moes, and Buzz Cola. The app is pretty easy to use and the drinks you have received appear in your Facebook profile.

Booze Mail Pros

• It’s fun
• Large selection of beverages to choose from

Booze Mail Cons

• There are some glitches that have shown up. You might get an error with the app every once and awhile, but the developers are working on it.
• Probably not helping to prevent the encouragement of underage drinking amongst Facebook users.
• Doesn’t really take advantage of the social network

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iCook Facebook Application

What is the iCook Facebook Application?

iCook lets you share your favorite food recipes with your Facebook friends. The divides foods into different categories like soups, salads, ect. Recipes than show up in your profile page.

iCook Pros

• Find new recipes easily

iCook Cons

• No real social leveraging. It would be nice if there was a top recipe feature.

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Beeeeeeeer Facebook Application

What is the Beeeeeeeer Facebook Application?

The Beeeeeeeer Facebook app allows you to display and rate your favorite beers on your profile page. You can then compare your favorite with your friends and other Facebook users. You can see which beers got the best and worst ratings through the app canvas page. Another pretty nifty feature is you can create a shopping list of the beers from the list. You can then text BEER on your cellphone to have that list sent to you. You’ll have to set up your mobile phone for this.

Beeeeeeeeer Pros

• Large list of beers to choose from
• Easy star ranking system
• Text shopping lists to your cell phone

Beeeeeeer Cons

• While the list is large, it’s still missing many regional beers. It would be nice if you could add your own to the list straight through the app. If you want to add a beer you have to register with on offsite page.
• People have had trouble with glitches.

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