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Steepster enables tea-drinking 2.0
There's a social network for just about everything these days, so it only makes sense that serious tea drinkers would get a social site of their own. It's called Steepster, and once you get your head around the idea that someone built a social network around tea, it's quite well-executed. Users can enter what they drink in a personal tealog, including comments or tasting notes that could come in handy for fellow tea aficionados.Steepster has a Facebook-style activity feed, so you can see the latest from any friends you make on the site. It also has a shopping list, which seems to me like the site's killer feature. If you're reading about a whole lot of tempting teas, it only makes sense to have a place to keep track of the ones you want to try for yourself. You don't have to be a member to browse teas on Steepster, though. Each tea page contains info like caffeine content, ideal steeping time and temperature, and ingredients.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Brackynews said 8:44PM on 8-03-2009
No surprise really. Many social and commerce networks have been built around tea in the last thousand years. I heard even America had a couple.
However I dare not join this site. I'm sure my tastes in bags would be dismissed as uncultured.
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Jack from Steepster said 11:14PM on 8-04-2009
@brackynews: not at all! A tea drinker is a tea drinker :)
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