Social network for Italian foodies

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Jul 20th 2006 @ 5:03PM

Just last week, I posted about FoodCandy, a social networking service for foodies. Today I came across DueSpaghi.it or 2Spaghi, a social network of sorts where users create profiles and post recommendations for restaurants around Italy. None of it is in English, so hopefully your Italian language skills are good. Mine aren't, and so far I've just been reading pages translated by Google. I know, not always accurate, but at least I can get a feel for the service. Users can post comments on restaurants and create a roster of their favorite places, it seems. They have a blog and a small wiki that explains the service. There are also tag clouds of popular search terms, mainly for regions and specialties. Right now, the service appears to have about 150 users.

Filed Under: On the Blogs, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: 2spaghi, bookmarking, commenting, duespaghi, finding, friends, italian, italian restaurants, italy, social network

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7-20-2006 @6:54PM faith said... You might have already covered this one too, but Dinnerbuzz has been doing this for a while and I find it pretty helpful at times.... http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/
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7-21-2006 @3:05AM Marco said... Hi all,

we just started a couple of weeks ago and we had no time to do all it takes to welcome all our friends from outside of italy.
In September, after a deserved holiday, we're going to make an english version of it too so you can focus on choosing where to go eating if you pass by instead of trying to get what the hell those italians are talking about through google translator :-)
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7-24-2006 @12:52PM sutithi said... Hi,

The social netwroking scene in the UK seems all heated up. What about France and Germany. Could you suggest the names of some popular social networking sites in these countries? I don't know about Germany, but given France's sucess with blogs, it would seem obvious that the French would embrace social networking. However, this does not seem to be the case. Any thoughts?
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8-13-2006 @10:49PM dB. said... We at FoodCandy want to be international. Hence we translated the website into English. More seriously, I've posted about a bunch of good Parisian and Swiss restaurants - would love to see more.
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