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FoodFeed – What Your Friends Are Eating Now
by Allen Stern on April 18th, 2008
FoodFeed has launched in beta and brings together two things that people can’t live without: Food and Twitter. It’s a great way to keep track of the foods you eat each day. I’d love to see calories and other nutritional information added — then it would be a killer product. I could see fitness trainers using this as an easy way to monitor their clients food intake.
Here’s how FoodFeed works:
- select your food to eat – could be something healthy or not so healthy
- add "having" to your twitter followers
- an account is setup for you on FoodFeed which provides a feed of all of the food items you’ve consumed
- when you eat the selected food, you simply message @having (or direct message) on Twitter and the food item will be added to your food feed.
Here’s my FoodFeed feed. It’s a pretty nifty system and could be easily monetizable if they decide to go that route.
Why does anybody care what someone else is eating? Furthermore, why would anybody care that I just had a Nutrigrain bar? This might be one of the most pointless sites on the net.
I agree with you that a trainer would want to know what a client is eating but that can be handled with a simple conversation at the gym–not a twitter account. Do you expect them to pick up the phone and yell, “PUT THE CAKE DOWN!” Really a dumb idea for a site.
using your logic – why does anyone care about any of the tools to share what you are doing including twitter, facebook, myspace, etc. Have you ever said to a buddy that you just had an awesome pizza last night?
For a trainer I think it works very well – while I don’t expect the trainer to look at it every moment, it can easily be used as a printable log as a trend. since it’s so easy to post updates versus many of the other food log tools, it should be easier to use. when you are out and about you can tweet in the lunch you are having outside of the home.
Comparing this ridiculous food site to a Facebook or Myspace is a crazy stretch in your argument. Let’s look at Facebook as an example. Just recently, I received a friend request from someone I went to high school with. I found out she is now married and actually has a baby. I also learned that she works for a great company in DC in their Human Resources department which could ultimately become a fantastic resource for me if I decide to move back to that region. Does that seem important? Absolutely. Is it important that she had a Sausage Mcmuffin for breakfast? Absolutely not.
You know what works great to provide a trainer with a food log? A pen and paper. For the record, that’s the method that trainers have relied on for years and I don’t see a burning need for that to be changed.