"bookmarking" news and stories

A few days ago, I posted about 2Spaghi, an Italian social network for foodies. MenuTree is a similar site, dedicated mainly to restaurants in Australia. At the moment, the listings seem to be predominatly based around Canberra, although the site's stats say there are listings for 14 countries in all. As with other new sites like 2Spaghi and FoodCandy, the number of users at MenuTree is still relatively small (181). At the moment, the searching capabilities still seem to be a little rough, but hopefully the site will grow and become yet another useful resource both Australian residents and travelers alike.

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.