ActiveState Announces Eat-A-Rama Restaurant Discovery Application on Facebook® Platform
New tool helps friends find great restaurants and $10,000 donation helps food banks nourish those in need
Vancouver, B.C. , 2008/01/08
ActiveState Software Inc., a Vancouver-based technology firm, released a new restaurant discovery application on Facebook Platform called Eat-A-Rama. Building on Facebook users' wealth of knowledge and opinions about where to eat and by letting friends act as personal restaurant advisors, Eat-A-Rama aims to make the world a tastier place.ActiveState is celebrating the release of Eat-A-Rama with a food bank donation of up to $10,000; for every five friends a user invites to add Eat-A-Rama and who install the restaurant ranking application in January, ActiveState will donate $1 to the user's local food bank.
With Eat-A-Rama, people can quickly discover new restaurants by browsing an interactive map or by searching with keywords. Adding restaurant ratings is an easy and fun process using thumbs up and thumbs down buttons, and people are immediately rewarded with an updated restaurant score. With Eat-A-Rama, each person has a unique experience based on the ratings of their network of friends. Where a restaurant may be the highest ranked for one person, it could be at the bottom for someone else because their friends rated it lower. A general community score for each restaurant is also available.
From $5 finds to 5-star eateries, Eat-A-Rama covers more restaurants in each city than any other restaurant site or app. Eat-A-Rama currently includes more than 250,000 restaurants across North America. Restaurant profiles for new cities will be added weekly, with a goal of complete worldwide coverage.
"We were frustrated that most online info about restaurants is out of date, obviously sponsored, or the opinion of some food critic that is hard to relate to. But friends always have a wealth of information on where to go, where not to go, and the latest hot spots or best kept secrets," said Sebastian Troen of ActiveState's Social Networking Team. "Eat-A-Rama unlocks this potential by combining social networking with all the great stuff friends know about where to eat."
"ActiveState is quickly becoming a leader in social networking technologies with applications that provide real utility to real users," said Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState.
In September, Up4, an app that helps friends spend more time together offline was launched to rave reviews, such as "the best looking app on Facebook."
"Eat-A-Rama is another example of how ActiveState is fulfilling the potential of social networking to make technology that just works," added Copeland.
Eat-A-Rama can be found and installed from the Facebook applications directory (or at http://apps.facebook.com/eat-a-rama/) in the Utility and Food and Drink categories.
About Eat-A-Rama
Eat-A-Rama helps people discover new restaurants based on the knowledge and opinions of their social network. Restaurant ratings are based on the input of each person's friends thus every Eat-A-Rama user has a unique experience. Currently in beta, Eat-A-Rama supports North American cities with over 250,000 restaurant profiles.
About ActiveState
ActiveState creates professional software development tools, programming language distributions and business solutions for dynamic languages, and practical tools and applications for social networking platforms. ActiveState solves complex problems and produces cool and useful applications that help people live more productive and enjoyable lives. ActiveState technology just works. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology in British Columbia. For more information, visit www.activestate.com.
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