Foodbuzz Publisher Community Launches.

October 13, 2008 · Filed Under OC Food News · Comment 

I just wanted to give a shoutout to my main site sponsor Foodbuzz. Today they officially launch their Publisher Community, of which I am a part of!  Here is their official press release.

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Doug Collister

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LAUNCH OF GLOBAL BLOGGER COMMUNITY

LEVERAGES REAL-PEOPLE, REAL-TIME POWER OF FOOD PUBLISHING

San Francisco – October 13, 2008: , Inc., officially inaugurates its food blogger community with more than 1,000 blog partners, a global food blogging event and an online platform that captures the real-people, real-time power of food publishing in every corner of the world. At launch, the community ranks as one of the top-10 Internet destinations for food and dining (Quantcast), with bloggers based in 45 countries and 863 cities serving up daily food content.

“Food bloggers are at the forefront of reality publishing and the dramatic growth of new media has redefined how food enthusiasts access tasty content,” said Doug Collister, Executive Vice President of , Inc. “Food bloggers are the new breed of local food experts and at any minute of the day, is there to help capture the immediacy of their hands-on experiences, be it a memorable restaurant meal, a trip to the farmers market, or a special home-cooked meal.”

is the only online community with content created exclusively by food bloggers and rated by foodies. The site offers more than 20,000 pieces of new food and dining content weekly, including recipes, photos, blog posts, videos and restaurant reviews. Members decide the “tastiness” of each piece of content by voting and “buzz” the most popular posts to the top of the daily menu of submissions. currently logs over 13 million monthly page views and over three million monthly unique visitors.

“Our goal is to be the number-one online source of quality food and dining content by promoting the talent, enthusiasm and knowledge of food bloggers around the globe,” said Ben Dehan, founder and CEO of , Inc.

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The blogger community is growing at a rate of 40 percent per month driven by strong growth in existing partner blogs and the addition of over 100 new blogs per month. “The .com Web site is like the stock of a great soup. The Web site provides the base or backbone for bloggers to interact as a community, contribute content, and have that content buzzed by their peers,” said Mr. Dehan.

Global Blogging Event

Demonstrating the talent and scope of the community, 24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs offered online food enthusiasts an international, virtual street festival of food and diversity. The new feature showcased blog posts from 24 partner bloggers chronicling events occurring around the globe during a 24 hour period and included:

“24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs” captures the quality and unique local perspective of our food bloggers and shared it with the world,” said Ryan Stern, Director of the Publisher Community. “It illustrates exactly what the future of food publishing is all about – real food, experienced by real people, shared real-time.”

About , Inc.

Based in San Francisco, , Inc., launched its beta Web site, .com, in 2007. In less than a year, Fooduzz.com and its community of over 1,000 exclusive partner food blogs have grown into an extended online property that reaches more than three million users.

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Foodbuzz Featured Publisher Dinner

August 21, 2008 · Filed Under OC Food Reviews · 7 Comments 

I wanted to thank everyone from Foodbuzz for an awesome dinner at Blanca’s in Newport Beach, especially Kirsten and Ryan.  Dinner was great, company was great, wine was great (I can’t figure out Kirsten’s blog link right now!).  Thank you so much for the amazing dinner and drinks.  You two are the best!  Also I wanted to give a shoutout to all those that I met tonight from the Orange County and surrounding areas, I had just great conversations!

Blog URL Name
2 Alosha’s Kitchen http://aloshaskitchen.blogspot.com/
3 An Easy Recipe http://aneasyrecipe.com
4 Art and Aioli http://artandaioli.blogspot.com/
6 Food Destination http://fooddestination.blogspot.com
7 Griffin Eats OC http://www.griffineatsoc.com
8 I Nom Things http://inomthings.blogspot.com/
9 LA and OC Foodventures http://la-oc-foodie.blogspot.com/
10 Le Food News http://lefoodnews.com/
11 Orange County Mexican Restaurants http://ocmexfood.blogspot.com/
12 Pleasure Palate http://pleasurepalate.blogspot.com/
13 Potential Gold http://potentialgold.typepad.com/
14 Rasa Malaysia http://www.rasamalaysia.com/
15 RumDood http://www.rumdood.com/
16 The Delicious Life http://thedeliciouslife.blogspot.com
17 This Man’s Kitchen http://thismanskitchen.com
18 Turkish Coffee World http://www.turkishcoffeeworld.org
19 Wandering Chopsticks http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com/
20 Go Eggless http://goeggless.com

I hope we can do this again soon. It was fun!

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OC Food Blog Community Mentions

August 14, 2008 · Filed Under OC Food News · Comment 

Wow today is my week over at Griffin Eats OC.  He went to not one, but two places I recommended this week!  First he went to Lazy Dog Cafe in Orange, had exceptional service, great food, and loved it.  Next he went to Cha Thai in Orange and loved the soup but wished they made the rest of their food spicier.  Glad you liked the places Griffin.

Then today Gustavo over at did a review for PK Burger, which is one of the best hamburger joints located near my work.  I’d like to think he went there based on my review, but one can only hope that’s why.  If you are out there Gus say hi, I read you all the time in .

I have reviews coming, in fact I have 6 waiting to be wrote up (Taco Adobe, Memphis, BJs Pizza, El Faralito, Wings ‘n Things, Blake’s Place), been a very hectic week at work, and I lost half of the pictures I took when I was out.

Thank you everyone that has visited the site lately.  Also wanted to give a shout out to my main site sponsor Foodbuzz who is taking some of us OC Foodies out to dinner next Thursday!  I’m looking forward to meeting you all!

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