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ThisJustBrewed serves social news for social beverages

thisjustbrewed social newsThisJustBrewed serves up some discussions around your favorite beverages, coffee, tea, wine and beer. Social news is everything, so why not one have one targeted around social beverages?

This social news site plays off of the Digg, Netscape model. Users submit stories and articles, and users vote them up or down. Of course the news on ThisJustBrewed is targeted around coffee, tea, wine and beer instead of tech and politics. If you can't get enough Arabica, Earl Grey, Stout or Lager, this is the site for you.

ThisJustBrewed is built off of the Pligg Content Management System. Pligg is a way for designers and developers with little knowledge of PHP and MySQL to install and work with a highly customizable personal content management system.

[via Emily Chang]

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Time for MappyHour

mappyhour happy hour map mashupIf you are lost with what to do this weekend, but know you want to ingest a little alcoholic beverage and don't want the giant tabs that it usually might come with, check out MappyHour. This site based on the Google Maps API hooks up users with a Happy Hour Map. Enter your address to see if you have a happy hour location in your area, or search the Happiest Cities Locations list. The Manhattan area in New York tops out with 1650 locations listed. While Philly, Cleveland, New Orleans, and St Louis run under 800 location with some cheap beverage availabilities. I can't say that I have come across any other location quite like this. I'm sure the developers of MappyHour put a lot of thought over a few drinks to come up with this ingenious happy hour mashup.

Stay safe, and have fun saving some change.

[via GoogleMapsMania]

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Extratasty: Drinking the Web 2.0 way

ExtratastyThere are a lot of drink recipe sites and some of them will give you a list of drinks you can make based on your list of what your bar is stocked with. However, none of them were quite able to get it right until Extratasty. From skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless, Extratasty has all the Web 2.0 fixins: pastel colors, big fonts, tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX. But beyond all that, it's social software that works really well. Its "My Bar" Google-Suggest-alike interface makes it easy to create a list of what ingredients you have, and it's smart enough to know that, for example, Pepsi and Coke can be substituted in most recipes, or that Goldschlager and Firewater are both cinnamon schnapps. It also suggests common bar items that you probably have but forgot about, like water or lemon juice. Drinks that you can make with what you've got can be displayed in a nice recipe card list, and of course you can rate drinks, leave comments, and even suggest alternate recipes. Brilliant!

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