by PepsiCo has tapped Joe Jonas as a brand ambassador for its new celebrity-infused “Live for Now” global ad campaign. The Jonas Brother will lend his star power by participating in Pepsi Pulse, the campaign’s social media dashboard that curates trending pop culture news. Jonas on Wednesday described his involvement and revealed his favorite apps, music services and other digital tidbits. “It seemed like the perfect fit,” Jonas said during an interview with Mashable in his New York City hotel suite Wednesday. “I like to be spontaneous and want to encourage fans to live for now. “Being creative is going to be fun.” On Twitter, Jonas will tweet messages and photos to show how he’s “living in the now,” and spur on fans via #LiveForNow hashtag challenges to contribute content for the real-time Pulse platform. Eventually, Jonas’s music chops will be put to use, but there are no details on that Read More

"Show me the menus!" Seamless transforms the world of delivery and takeout with the launch of its iPad App The Seamless iPad App makes it even easier to order from local restaurants, anytime, anywhere New York, NY – February 28, 2012 – Seamless (www.seamless.com), the leading mobile and online service for ordering delivery and takeout food from more than 8,000 top restaurants in the US and UK, today announced the release of its iPad App. Now available free on the App Store, the Seamless iPad App allows existing and new members to tap and swipe their way to ordering delicious delivery and takeout, anytime and anywhere. The iPad App is a groundbreaking addition to Seamless' suite of mobile apps for restaurant delivery and takeout, currently available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users. The apps and company website provide a closed-loop experience, allowing Seamless' more than one million members the ability to Read More

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The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog. Social media has certainly changed the way we interact and the way we do business, but the way we eat? No really, it’s true: social media is positively affecting virtually all aspects of our lives, including how we find, sell, and eat food. From helping restaurants connect with customers in new and innovative ways to helping consumers locate good eats, social media and the web are making our cities more delicious places to live. In this post we’ll look at some of the ways that social media is giving small food businesses the power to promote themselves and find new customers, as well as how it is providing city dwellers with the tools to find great (and safe) food. How else is social media making your city tastier? Let Read More

Food delivery aficionados who live in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, or New York are likely aware of GrubHub, an online service that offers a centralized location to find restaurants that deliver to you from all over the city. Through GrubHub, you can even order online from many restaurants and filter for those that are delivering now, different kinds of cuisine, and so on. At least here in Chicago, GrubHub has a pretty strong following, so when the company announced today that its GrubHub iPhone app had landed in the App Store, we were elated. In order to understand the need for an iPhone app that lets you order food, you must first understand the demographic that would want to have food delivered in the first place: the lazy. If I can place an order for some curry without dragging myself to a computer, or even if I'm on the train heading Read More