Comments on: A better recipe for digital cuisine http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/ Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: falcon http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-797812 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:13:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-797812 Lee Grainger at LivingCookbook.COM (PC) has done quite a bit of development on FDX & FDXZ recipe file format. It’s a mature, rich format that should be explored and supported by other recipe apps.

]]> By: Foodfolio http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-797490 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:28:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-797490 Part of the motivation for creating Foodfolio.net was just that, to save and organize all the great recipes out there, both online and off. The industry definitely has a long way to go to standardize recipes, and the new google recipe search has gone a long way to pushing hrecipes, but we’re still not there. And at Foodfolio, we’re hoping to get us there faster.

]]> By: Anthony http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-792007 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:38:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-792007 Good job summarizing and putting to words what many are thinking. I’ve tried a few different recipe managers on my Mac, and the lack of consistency is frustrating. I start to enjoy one program, then it has trouble pulling a recipe from a site, whereas another program can with that site, but has issues on a different site.

So then I’m copying recipes to text files that are disorganized. Just like the recipes cut off boxes, torn out of magazines, hand written from friends and relatives… A digital recipe standard format solves all kinds of problems and opens a whole new business model.

Who should set the standard? I am not sure. There isn’t as much money in recipes as in music, movies, and even overall books. Maybe The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) can agree on an ePub variant.

]]> By: Rita Wheat http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-791777 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:25:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-791777 G2/AllRecipe.com’s 2010 study “Today’s Recipe Box” on technology’s impact on recipe dissemination and adoption found that 33% of online recipe seekers with iPhones were very and somewhat interested in an “itunes” for recipes, with the ability to pay per cookbook recipe. Makes a lot of sense given that only about 10% of cookbook recipes are ever made by a cookbook owner.

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-789955 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:05:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-789955 Hey Michelle! Good to hear from you. BTW, I have a new job :)

You might try Evernote or Springpad for your email recipes. You forward them to an app-generated email address, and the apps save them as notes, which you can tag and search. Springpad can even let you search PDFs and other docs, I believe.

]]> By: Michelle Rudolph Kim http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-789940 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:48:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-789940 I’ve been using Pinterest to save new recipes I find (thought it’s not much help for all the existing recipes saved in the depths of my email folders). It’s a little clunky but the bookmark feature makes it pretty easy and then I can go back to my pages later.

]]> By: Say Mmm http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-789932 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:35:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-789932 That is true Kevin, there are WordPress plugins and other good ways middlemen could add value. Still not as nice though as if Google did the work for the bloggers with a better algorithm…guess I expect a little more from all the smart people at Google :)

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-789915 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:15:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-789915 Hi Brian, good point. That is a lot to throw on bloggers, especially considering your typical home canner/sausage maker/cook isn’t proficient in HTML coding. But isn’t there an opportunity to work with the middleman. Most bloggers use Word Press of Tumblr, which could set up food blog templates, correct? Admittedly it’s not their responsibility to optimize for Google and Bing, but I bet their clients would get a lot of use out of such features.

]]> By: Say Mmm http://gigaom.com/2012/01/02/digital-cookbooks-need-to-be-more-like-digital-music/#comment-789869 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:31:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=444973#comment-789869 Nice article. A recipe media format sounds like a nice idea, and extends the hRecipe microformat concept in new ways. I also believe that despite the complexity of the problem of reconciling different formats in recipes across the web that search companies like Google or Microsoft could do a better job or identifying and parsing parts of recipes than just throwing the problem back to bloggers to code recipes in a way that search engines understand. Say Mmm has developed a system without using hRecipe tags to identify ingredients for creating grocery lists and nutritional estimates for recipes on the web and in other format, so it works on a wider range of sites and for just regular text. You can check it out here, and bloggers can easily add this to their sites:
http://www.saymmm.com/grocerylistmaker.php

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