Kevin Rose and his new company, called Milk, has launched an app called Oink in the App Store. We told you about Oink awhile back when Rose demoed the project in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Summit. The app has now been made available to everyone.
Oink is an app that enters the user-reviewed, location-based scene of other apps like Yelp and Foursquare. Taking cues from Rose’s first success, Digg, Oink lets users rank things based on the context of a certain city or general location.
Oink is an easy way to rate and rank the things around you. Instead of just rating places, you rate the items inside. You could easily find the most popular items on a menu and see if a friend has tried anything there. Then if there’s something you like, it’s just a single press to rate it and share it with friends.
What you can do with Oink:
• Rate items around you and share with your followers
• See all the cool stuff your friends and other users are Oinking
• Find the best things in town (e.g. Best “Pizza” in Denver)
• Find the items at a place (e.g., Best roller coasters at Six Flags)
• Build “cred” in your areas of interest
• Share your Oink activity on Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare
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Oink is available on the iPhone for free in the App Store. The app seems to be using Google Maps to display a large array of places already.
Let us know what you think of Oink in the comments!
