links for 2007-09-04

• Eats, Online | TheDay.com
  About the importance of a restaurant's web site, and managing your online foot print: “Years ago, we'd tell a client you've got to have a four-color brochure,” he says. “Now, a Web site does the same thing electronically, and it can be kept current
  (tags: restaurants livebookings tips online booking marketing web)
• OpenTable: only one way to get points - Not About Food - Chowhound
  About the OT points system, only valid through their portal: "...they all had 100 points except for one of the restaurants, which showed as 0 points. I emailed OpenTable about this, and they told me that if I link to OpenTable through the restaurant's web
  (tags: restaurants livebookings competition online booking loyalty)
• My take on Seedcamp entries | Ben Metcalfe Blog
  Our friends Tablefinder are entered in this years Seedcamp: "Swedish entry Tablefinder looks to be a blatant copy-cat of US-based OpenTable. I just noticed that OpenTable are now operating in the UK too, and their established service is hard to knock. How
  (tags: livebookings restaurants online booking news partners network web2.0 business startup)
• SeedCamp Finalists Chosen; Battle To Final Five Next Week | Techcrunch
  Tablefinder is among the finalists in this year's Seedcamp: "Seedcamp, a European Y Combinator-like seed fund and mentoring program, has announced the final twenty candidates for funding. Next week, five of the twenty startup ideas will be funded, each re
  (tags: business startup web2.0 livebookings online booking partners news network)
• Korean: New Seoul | londonelicious
  Should try this one: "It's really nice and light and it's just the right amount of spiciness. The pancake and the soup go perfectly together...although there is no meat to be had, the pancake has a thickness and doughy-ness to it that meshes well with the
  (tags: restaurants reviews tips korea)
• CIA uses Facebook, NSA wants social networking data
  Facebook conspiracy theories... Come on! "Far more likely is that young entrepreneurs hit on a few good ideas, and the government now sees an opportunity. Whether that opportunity can be used to prevent any actual crimes remains to be seen." Yeah, I'd say
  (tags: politics privacy usa community society network bigbrother surveillance)