{"id":607,"date":"2010-11-16T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2010-11-16T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T18:51:32","slug":"google-hotpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/google-hotpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hotpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hotpot#\">Hotpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_608\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"size-large wp-image-608\" title=\"hotpot-main\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-main-540x351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-main-540x351.png 540w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-main-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-main-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-main.png 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Hotpot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UI is very simple to use once you get into it. You simply search for a location and then rate\/review. The list of locations has already been pre-populated by Google Map&#8217;s places.<\/p>\n<p>This site wants to be social, but nobody I know has accepted my Hotpot invite yet. This includes a Googler who I assume is too busy <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/11\/09\/google-pay-hike\/\">swimming in money<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_609\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-609\" class=\"size-large wp-image-609\" title=\"hotpot-nofriends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-nofriends-540x311.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-nofriends-540x311.png 540w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-nofriends-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-nofriends-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hotpot-nofriends.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Adoption<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One gripe I have upon my first visit, Hotpot was stuck on a page requiring me to update my Google profile username before it would let me review places. While I can see why you&#8217;d need a public username, it was a speed bump holding me back from instantly using the site.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/\">HN<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across Hotpot. The UI is very simple to use once you get into it. You simply search for a location and then rate\/review. The list of locations has already been pre-populated by Google Map&#8217;s places. This site wants to be social, but nobody I know has accepted my Hotpot invite yet. This includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[299,143,342,219,347,346,345,343,344],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-food","tag-google","tag-hotpot","tag-nyc","tag-ratings","tag-reviews","tag-san-jose","tag-sf","tag-sj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}