Mac|Life - Posted Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:42:01 UTC +00:00

Posted 12/26/2011 at 7:42am | by Michael Simon If you want to share everything you love, Twitter alone just won't cut it. Social microblogging apps are where it's at, but most are tailored to a specific service, and remembering which one to use can be a bit of a pain. Oink is nothing short of a game changer. It does everything you'd expect from a social rating app, but with an Apple-like elegance and a whimsical, anything-goes attitude unsurpassed by its peers. As its name suggests, Oink's most obvious use is for rating restaurants – or rather, the food found within. Say the diner up the street has a BLT to die for. Just tap the cute pig snout and start Oinking: select your location, snap a photo, and write a tiny review. You can love, hate, or ho-hum Oinks, as well as comment, share, and track favorites on a to-do Read More

TechCrunch - Posted Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:14:57 UTC +00:00

In two and a half weeks since its launch, micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Rose’s Milk Studios, Rose tells me that the app is now seeing a new Oink (rating) every four seconds and almost a million user sessions. The app has also dropped the “Oink Builder” label and the invite only sign up system. And, while I was at first skeptical, it proved actually useful to me, as in I opened it up and scrolled through all my friends’ Oinks in order to determine where I would grab lunch with a friend yesterday (you can do this more precisely by opening the app, hitting “Discover” and sliding the top slider to a mile radius). “We’re pretty happy,” Rose says about the promising usership numbers, “There are services out there that tell you Disneyland is Read More

itunes app - Twitter Search - Posted Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:48:47 UTC +00:00

...guess Kevin Rose still hasn't produced an Android version to Oink :-( http://t.co/ewpp0gsB... Read More

Mashable - Posted Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:58:22 UTC +00:00

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Quick Pitch: Oink is a recommendation service which lets you recommend precise objects within physical places. Genius Idea: Pushing the recommendations a step further than the norm, Oink hopes to make recommending stuff more fun and more social. If you like a certain place (like a restaurant), you probably like some particular objects within it (like specific dishes). That seems to be the basic idea behind Oink, a new project from Kevin Rose’s mobile app company Milk. The app – currently available for iOS devices – lets users rate objects within a place; objects such as pepperoni pizza, a mochachino or a ham sandwich. While this is not that different from standard recommendation apps such as Tripadvisor, Read More

MobileCrunch - Posted Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:55:31 UTC +00:00

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More Kevin Rose’s mobile lab, Milk, has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, First Round Capital, and True Ventures. The total amount now raised in the seed is $1.7 million. “We started talking to Google after we closed our round,” says Rose, “but decided to open it up for them as they’ve been adding a ton of value right away.” Google Maps is Read More

TechCrunch - Posted Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:55:31 UTC +00:00

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More Kevin Rose’s mobile lab, Milk, has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, First Round Capital, and True Ventures. The total amount now raised in the seed is $1.7 million. “We started talking to Google after we closed our round,” says Rose, “but decided to open it up for them as they’ve been adding a ton of value right away.” Google Maps is Read More

itunes app - Twitter Search - Posted Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:40:11 UTC +00:00

...oink app goes public http://t.co/zwKj8OhA... Read More

iPhoneFreak - Posted Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:11:24 UTC +00:00

Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! All the latest news, videos and photos delivered, magazine-style, to your iPad from Yahoo; complete with support for individual profiles, social networking integration and the chance to personalize your feeds.  Free. Scan your old physical pictures and store them for free inside 1000Memories’ online archive.  The app has editing and cropping tools to help get the best from your scanned pictures, plus the option to tag and share photos through social networking sites.  Free. Released back in August, this motorcycle racing game has been updated to include revised controls, a ‘Pro’ difficulty level and various other fixes and improvements.  It’s universal for the iPhone and iPad.  $2.99/£1.99. A social calorie/meal tracker and healthy eating application, where your friends can encourage your weight-loss program and also recommend Read More

MobileCrunch - Posted Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:35:01 UTC +00:00

Yesterday, Kevin Rose’s new mobile app, Oink, hit iTunes. You can download the app, but you still need an invite to unlock all of its features. About an hour after the launch, I showed up at Milk, Rose’s mobile lab startup, near San Francisco’s Mission District to get a demo. In the video above, Rose takes me through the app and explains what he is trying to accomplish. Oink is a location-aware app that lets you rate things in specific places and uses hashtags to identify those things. So you can rate the #sushi at a Japanese restaurant, the #burrito at a Mexican place, or a #bikepath in a park. You can rate anything, just add a hashtag or see what’s popular nearby. You snap a picture and rate the thing, then other people can add their ratings so that you can see the best #sushi or #beer ranked by location. Read More

TechCrunch - Posted Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:35:01 UTC +00:00

Yesterday, Kevin Rose’s new mobile app, Oink, hit iTunes. You can download the app, but you still need an invite to unlock all of its features. About an hour after the launch, I showed up at Milk, Rose’s mobile lab startup, near San Francisco’s Mission District to get a demo. In the video above, Rose takes me through the app and explains what he is trying to accomplish. Oink is a location-aware app that lets you rate things in specific places and uses hashtags to identify those things. So you can rate the #sushi at a Japanese restaurant, the #burrito at a Mexican place, or a #bikepath in a park. You can rate anything, just add a hashtag or see what’s popular nearby. You snap a picture and rate the thing, then other people can add their ratings so that you can see the best #sushi or #beer ranked by location. Read More

IntoMobile - Posted Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:05:32 UTC +00:00

Back in the late 90s a new television channel dedicated to technology called ZDTV was launched in the United States by Ziff-Davis. When the bubble popped they sold it to Vulcan Ventures at the turn of the century. ZDTV was renamed to TechTV and over the next few years it built an immense following, some might even say cult like. Personalities like John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and many others became household names. In 2004 Comcast purchased TechTV and it turned, for lack of a better phrase, into a steaming pile of shit. The original talent decided to go and do their own thing, knowing full well that they already had a huge fanbase. Leo Laporte started This Week in Tech, which this writer is a tremendous fan of, and Kevin Rose began a new website called Digg and a podcast network called Revision3 which had the Read More

TheAppleBlog - Posted Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:52:37 UTC +00:00

Oink, Kevin Rose’s much discussed app about rating not places, but the things they contain, is now live in the App Store. It’s a little like Yelp, and a little like Foursquare, and a little like Foodspotting. But will this pig fly? I kicked the tires to find out. As mentioned, Oink is all about rating items, and for now, that seems to be mostly about picking out favorite dishes on the menu at local restaurants. But people are already experimenting with a wide variety of items to rate, including the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography and Oink’s own UI. You can see how it could have very broad uses down the road. The first thing Oink asked me was whether I wanted to become a “Builder.” I did indeed, because I guessed (correctly) that there’d be precious little content in my neck of the woods here in Toronto. But you can’t just Read More

AllThingsD - Posted Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:22:44 UTC +00:00

Oink, the first app from Digg founder and video host Kevin Rose’s new app incubator, Milk, is now available for iPhone. If you’ve seen Foursquare, imagine if that app were inverted around the user-contributed tips about an establishment — what to order, mostly — rather than the places themselves. This is quite similar to many other apps (and Rose was actually a Foursquare angel investor), but it’s particularly pretty. Read More

MobileCrunch - Posted Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:42:17 UTC +00:00

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More Oink, the first app from Milk, Kevin Rose’s startup lab is now available in iTunes. Oink is an app that lets you rate things at different places, and uses social reputation to help others figure out who to trust about what topics. Rose gave a preview of Oink a couple weeks ago at the Web 2.0 Summit. At the time, I wrote: Oink is a mobile app that lets you rank things in different places. So instead of ranking a restaurant or point of interest, you can rank specific things at Read More