Archive : June 2008

Okay, this is the third and almost the last of my posts about who I met in NYC. Not for Tourists is an independent publisher of guidebooks. They do a whole load of US cities in addition to the one that doesn’t sleep, including LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Washington, Atlanta and Philadelphia and more. They’re launching the London edition in October. They are the very epitome of an indie NY publishing company and they get the Web. They get it to such an extent that they give all the content away – as in, you can get a PDF of everywhere they cover. As founder Rob Tallia says, “You either pay in money or printer cartridges and paper”. We had a really fun time with Rob and Craig and I look forward to steak and booze next time. ;-)

Another of the cool people I met last week in New York was David Ziegler, founder of Foodist Colony – a community website that allows food lovers to share restaurant recommendations. The community has been growing rapidly since David launched the site two years ago. There are lots of cool features Another of the cool people I met last week in New York was David Ziegler, founder ofFoodist Colony – a community website that allows food lovers to share restaurant recommendations. The community has been growing rapidly since David launched the site two years ago. There are lots of cool features to save people time: content is aggregated from the best food bloggers/websites and presented as a map mash-up.

I met Will Stephens for a beer last week in a pub in Williamsburg (I can’t remember what it was – very hoppy) to find out more about Beer Menus – a very cool beer, bar and map mashup covering Manhattan and Brooklyn. Will had a terrific story to tell about the new service. It launched in March this year and now carries details of nearly 300 venues/beer menus, and 1,514 individual types of beer.

MyFolia.com, an innovative new online gardening community and organiser that lets you list the plants you want to grow and matches you to gardeners who want to swap seeds. As you’d expect,MyFolia.com is packed with tools to allow gardeners to swap ideas and tips as well, but it’s the seed swapping that drew the attention of a commenter at Lifehacker and has cast a dark cloud over conversations in the groups area of MyFolia: