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Smoke Break #892: New iPhone App “OINK” Gets Users To Rank And Share Everything

Oink is a brand new app that will very likely leave the Foursquare tele-nerd set in deep puddles of their own making. It encourages the terminally lonely you to rate, rank and share everything from a restaurant’s poutine to the best cars to rent at Budget. How does it work? Basically, you walk in to Moxies, sit down, open the menu, and check Oink to see what comes highly recommended from other users (the exit?). It sounds great, except for the downside: there you are, totally oinking.

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  1. Correction:
    “Basically, you walk in to Moxies, sit down, open the menu, and check Oink to see what comes highly recommended from other users (the exit?). It sounds great, except for the downside: there you are AT MOXIES!!!!”

  2. The cyber-world is littered with review sites for the public, where’s the site for restaurants to “review” their guests. That’s only fair.

    Foursquare is a creepy app that can let random people see where you are. While there’s a segment of the market that can endure that degree of invasiveness they’re numbers are plateauing far beneath expectations. Avoid the ipo at all costs.

    Alternatively; restaurant chains can develop dedicated apps that build loyalty and community by providing a VIP service for seating and freebies and early access to reservation dates like New Years, Valentines and Mother’s Day.

    Simple geo-locating tech would allow the users of the restaurant ap to communicate converting rooms of strangers into a community of table hopping chums, and then some.

    Tethering the communication to the restaurant app filters out a lager degree of the randomness as restaurant demographics are astonishly specific. Think William Tell vs Corner Suite.

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