Website to Check Out: Guidespot

Some of you may know that I write for a site called Guidespot. Guidespot is a fabulous resource for the various restaurants and activities your city has to offer. While the guides can feature pretty much anything to do with a city, many of them are featured around food. And no matter what type of cuisine you're looking for in your city, chances are you'll find it on Guidespot!

• Here are all my guides for all you Bostonians. I obviously write a lot about food in Boston, but also have some guides featuring some other fun touristy things to do in the city. I'm pretty much an expert on Boston's nachos and so I pride myself on my guide to the best nachos.
  


• My favorite New York Guidespotter. She has a fabulous guide on where to get the best candy in NYC.
  


• A fabulous writer of Los Angeles guides. I'm LOVING his hilarious guide to the best sushi in LA.

Don't worry, I think Chicago guides are coming soon! The site is growing everyday and now we're starting to think about how to make it even better.

That's where you come in. It would be fabulous if you could give me your feedback and let me know what you like about the site, what you don't like, and what you think could be improved. Be honest! We've got everything from a city's best nachos to cupcakes to hangover cures, but is there something you'd like to see that we're missing? Is the site search-friendly for you? Do you just hate it altogether? We really want to work to improve the site. Plus, if you give me your feedback, I might win a little ahem, cash prize. So, the more the better :)

Check out the guides for your city and the site as a whole and let me know what you think by leaving your comments or e-mailing me at Anderson.SusanM@gmail.com. Thank you so much and I hope you all enjoy Guidespot!

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New Foodie Website: Zeer

I love discovering new websites that are fun and helpful in everyday life. Zeer is a brand-new website (based out of Boston!) that features consumer reviews of food. As in, basically every product you can buy at the grocery store is on this website. It's the kind of website that makes you say, "why didn't anyone think of this before??"

Since they're just getting started, the products don't have tons of reviews (most none at all), but eventually, this site is going to be an amazing database. You can use it to see what people are saying about new (and old) products, find out what products people are enjoying (and can't stand), and get all kinds of nutritional information. I guess you could think of it like a Yelp for groceries. I'm obviously big on trying new foods and I'm psyched that now I can see what other people are saying before I buy.

According to the Zeer team:

Today, modern technology has given you hundreds of thousands of food and beverage products. While having an abundance of choices can be nice, it's still hard to discover what's best after figuring in all of your needs plus seemingly endless amounts of information. When faced with so many details, it's easy to feel completely overwhelmed and unorganized.

Imagine instead that you could whittle the world down to a store section build just for you, with all of your friends hanging out, experts available to answer your questions, and all of the products you like and need in one place.

I've played with the site a bit and written a bunch of reviews and I definitely see its potential. So go check it out and "friend" me. Yes, there's a social networking aspect to the site; why wouldn't there be, right? Let me know what you think of it and if you can see yourself using Zeer as a food reference in the future.

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