This is what things like Mechanical Turk _can_ help with (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) point them to a few local restaurants and let the turker's vote on what they feel to be the best option. Human computing power is a thing.
If we are talking nostalgia, I remember the first time I heard of google; it was around the first time I heard of napster. Fourteen years ago. How the landscapes have changed.
I don't know how often I have actually seen this, but it was interesting to note that the references to Newsweek were simply italics instead of hyperlinks. After recently studying pagerank I found that an interesting tactic, whether or now pure hyperlinks are stil used in the calculations vs some other metric.
After using pentadactyl on Firefox for a number of years, and recently switching to Chrome, thanks! It doesn't seem to be as feature complete but I'll take it anyways.
I saw someone mentioned tindie.com in the other thread regarding this particular electronics project. Seems like someone over at tindie noticed, nicely done.
I see more and more of these exodus posts from various companies. The one static thing I seem to be able to pinpoint between them, is that as companies grow larger - more management is needed. As the management grows in a company the modus operandi shifts from product to bottom line. While interesting, it seems that this is just inevitable with most companies growth.
I just ran across this, wanted to say that it looks like an interesting project - not sure however what advice to give you. I can however say, that I m a student studying NLP and I like the way users self annotate their moods based on their statements. Good luck.