New Features

Well we are relaunching our PicnicDog campaign. We've got some great new features. We've changed the rating system to more a voting like manner, where the good stuff will bubble to the top and the bad will stay at the bottom. We've also added Facebook and Twitter integration, along with a bunch of other social networks.

So Cheers,
Stephen Gallo
Founder

Public Beta

Well it's official. We are done with our Private Beta. A special thanks to all of our beta users and personal friends who help test the whole thing out. We found a few bugs along the way, but overall we are very pleased with the progress of the site. With all the bugs squashed (we hope), we've started advertising to help drive some traffic to the site. Soon Picnic Dog could be flooded with food posts from all over the world! Hope you all enjoy the experience.

New Years Features....cont

Well it's been one of those days.  While starting to working out the details of the nutrition reporting I relized that it wouldn't be 100% accurate without being able to pick the actual date that you entered your meal.  Currently the meal was entered as the date you keyed it.  So now, denoted by the yellow arrow, we've included a date selector on the created and edit screens, to allow you to change the date of your meal.  I know some of you have asked for this, but I thought the reporting was more important, not fully relizing that they were inclusive!

In addition I also notice that myself and my lovely wife were posting the same meals...duh.  I wished that I could simply copy her post as she sometimes gets to the site quicker than I do.  So there is now a copy and edit feature on each meal post in every basket.  When you click copy and edit, it adds the meal to your basket.  It will pull in all the nutrition information that someone has attached to the meal, however it will not bring in the ratings or comments.  Wouldn't want someone to steal comments, or artifically inflate there ratings.  It will also immediately take you to the edit screen where you can tweek the post a little.  Sure you may have eaten the same thing, but you might want to add your own flare to the post, or change the date.

Well I think that is all that we will be including for the new year as tommorow is party time!

Once again Happy New Year!

New Years Features

It's been a while since the last post....darn holiday's.  Actually we've been real busy adding some cool stuff to Picnic Dog.  It's what you've all been asking for so we hope you enjoy it.

Once you've added your meal to your list it's pretty set in stone.  You can of course delete it, but say you just had a small typo

, you'd have to retype your whole meal.  You can see now that we've added a new link to you your blog list - "Edit".  This will allow you to edit your meal for .....well what ever reason you have to edit.  You can change what type of meal it was, breakfast, lunch...etc, and you can also change the text.  EDIT AWAY!.

The big news however is below.  You can now compute the nutritional value for a meal.  Before you could just simply look up a foods nutritional value using the food search, which we've moved.  We've moved the food search into the "bark" page of the application, the page where you view your meal.  Here you can search for foods and look up there nutrional values.  Once found, you can add the food to your meal. Picnic Dog will then compute the total nutritional value for you meal based on the foods you've selected. 

All this being said we've got a bunch more features in the works including but not limited to reporting on the nutrition you are consuming and weight management (the weight part will not an opt, in out feature when it comes to sharing!)

So Happy New Year.  I hope 2009 is a healthy one!

Week One Over!

A big thanks for everyone that have been participating in the beta. Thanks for the great feedback. We fixed a bunch of bugs this week which some of you were kind enough to point out. Every little bit helps. So once again…thanks. I’d also like to take this time to point out 2 new features that went in this week.

Activity List
The activity list that runs down the right side of the page is a running stream of what all your friends are doing in real time. Who, what and when and get a real time glimpse of what your friends are enjoying.

Groups
Picnic Dog now offers you the ability to create a groups. You can create a group for whatever topic you like. When you select a group, it will show you a list of what all the people in that group are eating. You could create a list for you company, for the diet program you are using, or for your neighborhood or town. The sky’s the limit. We’ll be adding group invites soon, but we are still working on our messaging system.

So Cheers,
Stephen Gallo
Founder

Welcome

I'd personally like to welcome you all to beta release of the Picnic Dog application. Picnic Dog is a fun way to share what you are eating and check out what other foods the world is eating. With Picnic Dog you'll be able to see what the world is eating and rating on the basis of health and taste. Using Picnic Dog help you find the foods you want to eat when you just can't find the answer for your hunger. So have fun and let us know what you think.

Cheers,
Stephen Gallo
Founder