Foodista Launches
After a long but fun year of planning, designing, dreaming and building we are finally proud to present the fruits of our labor! Foodista.com – The Online Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit.
Foodista is a place where it’s easy to learn and share about cooking. We’ve organized cooking information into four basic elements that all interlink: Food, Recipes, Kitchen Tools, and Cooking Techniques. We also emphasize the beauty of cooking with big, beautiful photos of food from Flickr Creative Commons, as well as from our users.
We believe in quality over quantity, so we created a place for people who are excited about food to share their knowledge with the world. Our system lets anyone edit the site to make it better and it instantly publishes, like Wikipedia.org. Two heads are better than one – and 500 is even better! That’s the beauty of collaborative editing.
For you food bloggers we’ve developed innovative technology for connecting cooking information across websites. These links help you build traffic to your blog and improve search engine rankings. Future widgets will allow you to include whole recipes from the Foodista database for free. How do you like them apples!
On the more technical side, we leverage open source software, cloud computing resources, and the wisdom of the crowds to rapidly develop cooking software and content. It’s important to us to be as open as possible and to share with the world what we are building.
So we hope you enjoy the site! There’s a lot more that’s still cooking, and we look forward to sharing it all with you.
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23 Responses to “Foodista Launches”
December 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Lookin’ good, baby!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Congrats! Heard about you from A.P. Is there a way to add videos to the site? I’m the host of the Seattle-based web cooking show, Cookus Interruptus (www.cookusinterruptus.com). We’d love to add videos or have you review our site on your blog.
Thanks.
Cynthia
December 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Yeah Foodista! Yeah Barnaby, Sheri and Colin. Wishing you great success and happiness.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Congrats Barnaby – Fantastic to see a CC-BY licensed food site. It looks great!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Congrats! And nice article in today’s Seattle P-I.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Congratulations! Never enough food sites (can’t be. I still find time to sleep). I’ll enjoy following the evolution.
Remember, eating out isn’t a luxury, it’s your duty!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Bravo! Bravo!
I love that you have taken the open source path in creating not just a great website, but a community, including valuable features for other food blogs/sites. That’s the spirit.
Viva Foodista!
December 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Congratulations on your fabulous endeavor. You did it, and what a special day! Good luck, from your biggest fan.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thanks, Cynthia! Video is definitely in the works. We will announce the feature once it goes live. Date TBD.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Vancouver loves Foodista.com!
Congrats Barnaby and Sheri on the launch.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Congratulations, and welcome to the blogosphere. Stop by sometime and say hello.
Scott
http://www.scottjosephorlando.com
December 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I just stumbled across your site and I think it looks good. Being the food lover I am, watching you grow will be fun.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I love seeing your gorgeous faces with my morning coffee in the paper. What a treat!! Congrats on all your hard work!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Congratulations Foodista! The site looks great!
December 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Looks good. What is your connection to Hannafords- It’s a great Company. Rich
December 18th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Awesome! Congratulations Sheri – I’m proud of ya
Happy Holidays, I hope to see you in the new year
December 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
No connection to Hannafords
December 19th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Excellent work. This looks like the kind of site that will grow into something you can’t live without!
Just one suggestion though. How about making it so you can convert measurements between imperial and metric? I always find it tricky when a recipe mentions things like cups.
December 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Congrats! Very cool : )
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Wow! Just found this site and it looks great! Can’t wait to see you grow!
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Congrats, Barnaby and Sheri! The site looks great! Nice design, very usable, and I’m learning more than I ever expected about sommeliers.
December 26th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Hello foodista friends,
Congratulations on the website launch. Do not hesitate to contact me on any help you might need from China
Thanks for stopping by my blog,
Regards
January 24th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
remarkable idea. Great recipes and community involvement.
Brilliant.
good luck
How about a Ukrainian category.
A lot of the wonderful slavic dishes are a mingling of several ethnic cultures of Eastern Europe along with whatever exposure they had with traders on the Silk Route. The Ukrainian word for tea is CHEYE. Now it’s very vogue but that is the Persian label for this beverage.
I have a great one for our version of gnocchi’s which was made to use up leftover potatoes – but with added nourishment. This is the supreme comfort food. All non ethnics who have eaten in my kitchen devour this with gusto.
Good luck thanks for the passion and fun you are bringing to the table … A lot of the young people – I have 4 adult children – don’t cook much but perhaps would like to learn.. You bring a unique dynamic which will be more appealing and inviting.
Enjoyed hearing you on the radio today in my car. This is how I discovered you…… HOORAY
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