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links for 2007-11-30

• BlogEngine.NET - Home
  BlogEngine.NET may be the simplest and most light weight ASP.NET blog at the moment, but still full featured.
  (tags: .net blogs opensource projects development software download)
• Subtext Project > Home
  Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for yo
  (tags: .net blogs opensource projects development software download)

links for 2007-11-27

• Savoir Faire restaurant in Bloomsbury & Holborn, London
  Going to Savoir Faire for xmas dinner, seems great! "Savoire Fair - rarely has a restaurant been so perfectly named. Fresh food, good wine, mellow atmosphere, satisfied staff, value for money."
  (tags: restaurants)
• FoodTube, video clips about food
  FoodTube.net is a recently launched site that is an online video aggregator for just that: clips about food. Even though the aesthetics of the sire aren’t all that appealing, it’s actually got all the functionality it needs.
  (tags: food video archive diy)

links for 2007-11-20

• Booking Tools Boost Dining Service
  Corporate online booking tool providers are adding restaurant reservations functionality to help buyers corral expenses.
  (tags: livebookings restaurants booking travel online business)

links for 2007-11-18

• Delicious :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris
  Really pretty font: "The Delicious is a font I designed because of my admiration for typography. It got a bit out of hand and in two years it resulted in a complete font family."
  (tags: design fonts free typography download)

Facebook for restaurant marketing

Two weeks ago Facebook released a new milestone in their path to world domination: Facebook Pages. Simple, yet cunning. Facebook now allows for organizations to create "pages" about their company, brand or product. Users of Facebook can then add these pages to their social network just like they add friends and acquaintances. You become a "fan" of the organization's page.

Interestingly enough, Facebook themselves actually use a restaurant as example of how these pages can be used to market a company or brand and build a "fan base" of people interested in what they do. Apparently there are quite a few people at Facebook HQ who like Indian food, since they chose a nearby place called Junnoon for their Facebook Pages sample setup.

I think restaurants are very well suited for this new feature. Everybody have an opinion on food and restaurants, we all want to show off where we like to dine, some people even define themselves partly through particular diets or food styles. So how can we at Livebookings use this to help our restaurants get more bookings?