Comments on: The “Vote For Lunch” Market Roundup http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/ Reinventor of Wheels Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: stizle http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-311161 stizle Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:10:08 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-311161 <p>Check out http://www.whats4l.com for fresh take on the lunch voting situation. whats4l.com has voting, Google Maps integration, ride arrangement, order tallys and a comment area. There is also a "text message bomb" feature that simultaneously hits everyones cell phone via text message.</p> Check out http://www.whats4l.com for fresh take on the lunch voting situation. whats4l.com has voting, Google Maps integration, ride arrangement, order tallys and a comment area. There is also a “text message bomb” feature that simultaneously hits everyones cell phone via text message.

]]> By: Phelps Peeler http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Phelps Peeler Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:23:54 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-445 <p>Hey, don't give up on Dr.Lunch...</p> <p>Our lazy "sysadmin" may forget to put up our mail server every now and then, but you shouldn't get any more error messages at this point...</p> <p>And if you do, you'll be shocked at how quickly we respond to your concerns if you send us an email...</p> <p>You'd be even more shocked if you knew how lazy we are in all other aspects of our life...</p> <p>Plus, unlike many other sites, Dr.Lunch let you, the user, add your own sites...</p> <p>And, really, what could be better than that?</p> Hey, don’t give up on Dr.Lunch…

Our lazy “sysadmin” may forget to put up our mail server every now and then, but you shouldn’t get any more error messages at this point…

And if you do, you’ll be shocked at how quickly we respond to your concerns if you send us an email…

You’d be even more shocked if you knew how lazy we are in all other aspects of our life…

Plus, unlike many other sites, Dr.Lunch let you, the user, add your own sites…

And, really, what could be better than that?

]]> By: Slate http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Slate Thu, 12 May 2005 16:58:46 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-421 <p>There is already a free commercial site that has been out for years that does everything you guys have talked about and more. Recent rumors is several corporations including Google, Mark Cuban and Yahoo have been looking into buying it. Apparently it has some unique patents on the process and technology. So watch what you guys copy for your lunch sites.</p> <p>www.LunchVoter.com</p> There is already a free commercial site that has been out for years that does everything you guys have talked about and more. Recent rumors is several corporations including Google, Mark Cuban and Yahoo have been looking into buying it. Apparently it has some unique patents on the process and technology. So watch what you guys copy for your lunch sites.

http://www.LunchVoter.com

]]> By: Andy Baio http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Andy Baio Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-59 <p>Instead of a final decision, how about sending out an e-mail roundup of the top three choices, with the list of who is going to each? Of course, this requires knowing approximately when people actually go to lunch and knowing their timezone... That complicates the app, so it might not be worth it.</p> Instead of a final decision, how about sending out an e-mail roundup of the top three choices, with the list of who is going to each? Of course, this requires knowing approximately when people actually go to lunch and knowing their timezone… That complicates the app, so it might not be worth it.

]]> By: Gordon http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Gordon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-60 <p>That's definitely one of the implementation factors in play when you want to send out scheduled email. People like to go eat lunch on a variety of schedules, and also live in many different time zones. The key problem is that it complicates the app. A post-and-poll system like RSS feeds of your party makes much more sense to me.</p> That’s definitely one of the implementation factors in play when you want to send out scheduled email. People like to go eat lunch on a variety of schedules, and also live in many different time zones. The key problem is that it complicates the app. A post-and-poll system like RSS feeds of your party makes much more sense to me.

]]> By: Nick http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Nick Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-61 <p>Hehe, good to see that neither your sense of humor nor your humor of sense has been dulled by a life of coding.</p> <p>On the serious side, there are some folksonomic tags I've seen in eatlunch.at that, upon consideration, cause some semantic headaches--vis "close" and "far". How do you keep these from being useless, given a widespread (multi-timezone, even) userbase? Fighting back the temptation to suggest user-location-overhead-cruft. Do you just let your emergent community figure out on its own that such relativities are useless?</p> <p>p.s. another: <a href="http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Misc__Applications/Lunch_Picker.html">Lunch Picker</a></p> Hehe, good to see that neither your sense of humor nor your humor of sense has been dulled by a life of coding.

On the serious side, there are some folksonomic tags I’ve seen in eatlunch.at that, upon consideration, cause some semantic headaches–vis “close” and “far”. How do you keep these from being useless, given a widespread (multi-timezone, even) userbase? Fighting back the temptation to suggest user-location-overhead-cruft. Do you just let your emergent community figure out on its own that such relativities are useless?

p.s. another: Lunch Picker

]]> By: Gordon http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Gordon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-62 <p>Good observation, Nick. In an ideal world, users would grasp that pretty quickly and be able to adjust their tagging accordingly. One practical ability would be reporting a zip code where the restaurants are. That way, eventually some zip code mappings could be done. Or, we could go Andy's way of creating Metros which geographically segregate the data objects. I'll spend some time this weekend enhancing the tagging functionality, and also creating info pages for each spot. </p> <p>It would suck to have to redesign the whole thing entirely, but it might be necessary to gain better acceptance. I'm not completely sure that's what's needed though.</p> Good observation, Nick. In an ideal world, users would grasp that pretty quickly and be able to adjust their tagging accordingly. One practical ability would be reporting a zip code where the restaurants are. That way, eventually some zip code mappings could be done. Or, we could go Andy’s way of creating Metros which geographically segregate the data objects. I’ll spend some time this weekend enhancing the tagging functionality, and also creating info pages for each spot.

It would suck to have to redesign the whole thing entirely, but it might be necessary to gain better acceptance. I’m not completely sure that’s what’s needed though.

]]> By: David http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-63 David Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-63 <p>It still surprises me to this day that a crappy program I wrote while learning Visual Basic in college in the mid 90s is still being used, and talked about, to this day.</p> <p>Thanks for the link!</p> It still surprises me to this day that a crappy program I wrote while learning Visual Basic in college in the mid 90s is still being used, and talked about, to this day.

Thanks for the link!

]]> By: George http://getluky.net/2005/02/19/the-vote-for-lunch-market-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-64 George Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-64 <p>What about www.wheeloyum.com?</p> What about http://www.wheeloyum.com?

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