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New Bravo Food Show Partners Up With Gilt Taste

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 8:48 am PT

Bravo Media’s new cooking competition, “Around the World in 80 Plates,” is teaming up with Gilt Taste, an online food marketplace, where fans will be able to purchase products and ingredients featured in each episode. Since Gilt Taste is part of the megaretailer’s flash-sales kingdom, be prepared to sign up in order to visit the special site.

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Google Makes It Easier to Sift Through Recipes

Voices in News on February 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT

In the latest of Google’s ongoing efforts to promote Better Living Through Algorithms, the search sovereign is rolling out Recipe View, which strains out extraneous results from a recipe search and lets you filter for specific ingredients, cooking times and calories.

Pig-Nibbling Inside 11 Giant Imaginations: The Latest Glimpse of Glitch

Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Here is some video of Glitch–the new game that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is in the midst of creating from the Vancouver HQ of his Tiny Speck start-up. Butterfield showed me the latest iteration of the game, which takes place inside the minds of 11 giants. Including, oddly enough, a pig that will give up some meat if you nibble it, but walks merrily away after.

Viral Video (And Must-See TV): "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution"

Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2010 at 1:52 pm PT

Tonight at 9 pm, ABC is premiering a television show that all you computer potatoes need to see: “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” Oliver, a well-known chef from Britain, is taking his war against unhealthy eating habits to American shores, starting with West Virginia. The U.S. is suffering from an obesity epidemic and he aims to stop it, one pizza for breakfast at a time.

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Online High Schools Test Students' Social Skills

Paul Glader, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 24, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Tatyana Ray has more than 1,200 Facebook friends, sends 600 texts a month and participated in four student clubs during the year and a half she attended high school online, through a program affiliated with Stanford University.

BoomTown Interviews Arianna, Ken and Eric About Huffington Post Exec Changes: BAM!!

Kara Swisher in News on June 15, 2009 at 6:18 pm PT

Apparently, if you want to think about the growth of the Huffington Post as a culinary dish, perhaps today’s replacement of CEO Betsy Morgan with longtime online media powerhouse Eric Hippeau might appear under the Emeril Lagasse cooking cliché: Let’s kick it up a notch! Both co-founders of the online media site, Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, said as much in interviews I did with them–as well as Hippeau–this afternoon. “The deal is that we simply have been growing so fast that we needed more firepower to accelerate in expanding the site and monetizing it,” said Huffington, who is also editor-in-chief of the news site.