January 11, 2007

Trend: Social Networking For Foodies

Recently I have stumbled upon two new social networking websites, BakeSpace and Food Candy. Both of these sites are targeting the growing community of foodies. FoodCandy includes syndication of foodie blogs, and BakeSpace has recipe search and cooking discussion forums. These sites offers the niche social networking that MySpace and others do not. It will be curious to see if more social networking will break more into niches like fashion, sports, etc.

4 Responses to “Trend: Social Networking For Foodies”

Jason Freidenfelds
Posted from: 205.160.207.254
February 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Absolutely — 1UP.com is a social networking (and news) site devoted to videogames. It’s got specialty gaming-specific features like a videogame wishlist and gaming news tracker, and it lets gamers find others in their area or who enjoy the same types of games they do.

It’s been doubling in traffic year-over-year for four years straight now, from half a million monthly unique visitors in 2003 to over 4 million today. So the niche approach is working!
dB.
Posted from: 64.52.115.178
February 12th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

Wrong link: http://www.foodcandy.com
SportsGist
Posted from: 76.170.209.94
March 19th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

SportsGist is a social networking community for athletes and sports fans.

www.sportsgist.com
is the the Internet’s Leading Sports Social Network an online community that
encourages Professional athletes to interact with other athletes, Sports
enthusiasts, Executives as well as those aspiring for a career in the Sports
industry & Fans at all levels; providing a platform to network and communicate
through videos, photos and blogs.
Steve Murch
Posted from: 67.168.38.146
September 3rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm

Another social network for foodies is www.bigoven.com. You can post recipes, tag recipes with others, subscribe to various chef’s “Try Soon” queue, suggest recipes right onto your friend’s try soon list, search over 160,000 recipes by ingredient, flavor, cuisine and more.