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Mayonnaise brand Hellmann's and ad agency CUBOCC worked together to create WhatsCook, a live recipe service that lets users chat with real chefs or an expert cooking team and learn how to prepare meals in real time using the WhatsApp chat. Users just have to send their number via WhatsCook's website and a specialized cooking team gets in touch with them to find out when they need help with. After setting a schedule they can then chat via WhatsApp and start cooking.

ZipList (Igrocery list and recipe service) not only had to face off against a growing number of recipe aggregation and shopping services, like Paprika, Yummly and Grocery IQ, but also found it couldn't compete for attention against entrenched cooking brands on the Web, such as the Food Network and Epicurious. So ZipList changed tack. Last summer it began partnering with big food brands MarthaStewart.com and the Daily Meal, as well as small food blogs that began integrating the ZipList recipe box directly into their sites. The results were impressive: In nine months it signed up 120 big-name food sites and 6,500 small blogs, which in turn generated 1 million customer accounts for its digital recipe and shopping list service.

this is awesome. an LBS app to see what people are cooking nearby in their homes - cooks can sell leftovers or make extra, locals get fresh homemade meals. Only en France.

The Ask CT Food campaign is enabling those eating out to Instagram their meal and receive a recipe to recreate it at home.

" The interactive product will be based at www.bravotv.com/playlive, and on the Bravo Now app. Bravo details exactly what to expect in the official announcement: Live voting results are shown on-air, changing in real time during the broadcast as the audience reacts to what's happening in the show. Fans can cast votes, deciding who's hot, who's not, and an array of other interactive questions customized to what's happening on screen. For example, when the experience rolls out to other Bravo programming, questions such as, 'Which chef would you choose to cook dinner for you?' or 'Who will bring the most drama this season - the housewives…or their husbands!' could appear on screen."

Robotic assistants?

Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food - Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged - and schedule a pickup time in the app or website. The app then automatically matches the donation to a nearby organization and a cape-wearing driver (Copia calls them "food heroes") who completes the pickup and delivery.

After Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted Monday morning about a "record weekend" for sales of the new iPad, Apple this afternoon is confirming just how good of a weekend it was. Since the first iPads went on sale Friday morning, 3 million tablets have been sold, according to Apple.

another series of connected devices -- moving into the kitchen

apps for the humanoid robot paldro -people tracker -twitter (reads tweets... or at least tries to) -cooking app -word game

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