Friday, June 27, 2008

Web 2.0 Awards: imcooked.com

imcooked.com is a useful and fun-to-use website that could be even better with a few tweeks and additions. The videos must make the cooking experience more interesting because of the added dimension and the people you'd get to meet. Also, you'd be able to see if the recipe turned out like it was intended to. If it didn't, you could probably chat with people in one of the groups to find out the reason why it didn't turn out the same way.
The search function seems to return good results and there certainly are a lot of tags for many of the recipes, which would make them easy to find. I couldn't find a way to add your own tags, though. Perhaps the person submitting the video can tag or I may have overlooked the way to add them.
One drawback I see is making the video. Most of us are far from professional videographers and it would be a challenge for us to make an attractive video of the quality people are used to from watching cooking shows on televion.
imcooked.com also,in my opinion, should include a written copy of receipes to accompany the videos without having to resort to e-mail to obtain it.
I don't see the concept of imcooked.com translating to libraries unless people wanted to create short book reviews.
All-in-all I give imcooked.com 4 our of 5 stars.

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