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Edition 18 – May, 2009
Twitter-enabled box alerts customers to fresh bread >>
A marketplace for backyard famers >>
Atop a Toronto
hotel, more urban beekeeping >>
Pizza Hut intern to focus on Twitter >>
Charcoal alternative for greener grilling >> |
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Twitter-enabled box alerts customers to fresh bread |
Everyone knows that baked goods tend to be best when fresh from the oven; the challenge for bakery customers is predicting when that might be. New technology from London agency Poke now removes the guesswork, however, by enabling bakeries to alert their customers via Twitter any time a new batch is done.
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A marketplace for backyard farmers |
Farmers markets have long been providing individuals with a place to purchase fresh produce, but until now there have been limited opportunities for individuals with gardens and fruit trees to distribute their own (leftover) crops.
Portland-based Veggie Trader, which just launched last month, is a kind of online farmers market that connects individual produce sellers, buyers and swappers.
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Atop a Toronto
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No sooner did we post our story about Fortnum & Mason's rooftop beekeeping effort in London than one of our readers alerted us to a similar one under way across the ocean. This time, it's atop a Toronto hotel, and the resulting honey is being used to supply the hotel's restaurant kitchen.
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Pizza Hut intern to focus on Twitter |
With all the uses organizations are finding for Twitter – whether it's keeping political constituents up-to-date or alerting customers to fresh bread – there's no doubt the platform is becoming increasingly prominent in the corporate world. Little surprise, then, that Pizza Hut has created an internship position to focus specifically on Twitter and other social media.
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Charcoal alternative for greener grilling
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Charcoal is notorious for its undesirable effects on the environment and human health, but for backyard grilling, there have been few alternatives. Just in time for summer in the northern hemisphere, a Wisconsin-based company has now launched a greener alternative.
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