Foodies Get Savory Content on Foodbuzz

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Posted by: Kelly Mooney 

 

A colleague passed along another niche community site--Foodbuzz. My husband is much more the foodie than I am (he cooks, I eat) but I've had a lot of fun playing around on the site. Foodbuzz makes it easy for you to find other people with food interests like yours, and it also serves up geographically relevant info--foodies near you, ratings and reviews of restaurants in your area.

The site covers just about everything I can think of related to food--recipes, restaurants, photos of food, blogs about food, videos about preparing food, forums about food, news about food---you get the idea. And of course, in true community site fashion, the site is highly networked--members can review, comment, quote, share, save and vote on content, and connect with other foodies.

I love how the site is both functionally intuitive--it doesn't try and reinvent what's working on other community sites--and creatively unique. The idea itself pulls together two content areas that are often separate--recipes and restaurants. Foodbuzz realizes that foodies want them both, together. I also enjoy the little nuances it adds to traditional convention, like instead of offering you the option to "browse," it lets you "graze." Now, if these foodies could simply make the meal appear, that would be something.

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