Cooking Capsules

T-Mobile G1 & Android Market with Cooking Capsules Taster

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Hi Folks!

Things have been crazy and exciting here at the Capsule factory. The team and I are so excited to finally have our first set of encapsulated recipes up on the Android Market! We will be putting some love into the website as well. Christine has taken a lead on that, so we can keep it fresh and offer more information and neat cooking related tidbits. She's doing such a great job- thanks, Christine! Actually a lot of people have been doing some pretty great things for Cooking Capsules, so we will get some bios and credits up soon so you can meet more of the launch and content team, as well as more about those who were involved in our Google's Android Developer Challenge win.

We've been getting so much amazing press! Since my last post, there was an article about me and Cooking Capsules in the Palo Alto Weekly (my parents were proud!), and coverage about the app in TIME.com (Cooking Capsules Taster was the journalists "personal favorite"!), and yesterday the Wall Street Journal where we were listed under the heading of "fun" with PacMan, Bonsai Blast (my two favorite games on Android) and a handy movie finder developed by an engineer at Google. There is nothing quite like pulling the paper from my doorstep in the morning and reading about Cooking Capsules over a hot cup of coffee. Truly amazing.

Christine and I showed up to catch some of the madness at the T-Mobile store in San Francisco Tuesday where there was a long line of people waiting to buy their G1 phones. We talked with a few people and told them about our app, ran into a couple of Googlers, and just generally soaked in the excitement. It's great that people are so excited for Android! Yesterday the phone was released in the rest of the country, although some had gotten theirs in the mail early.

And, as if the G1 launch and media coveragewasn't enough, we are currently ranked #1 in popularity in the Lifestyle category on the Android Market. Who knew how hungry so many people would be for the Capsules?

We've been getting tons of great feedback and ideas from users, which we love, since this app is for you. The resounding one is "we want more!" Patience, Android users. We hear you! We can hardly wait to give you more. There is lots unfolding and we will keep you in the loop. One user told us if we have a mailing list he wants to be on it. This got us thinking about that. So stay tuned, we'll be working on some sort of newsletter. As I mentioned, we will be enhancing cookingcapsules.com with lots of goodies, and we have been keeping good track of the press coverage, if you would like to follow that, please check in periodically at cookingcapsules.com/press.

Thanks a million for the support, and keep on cooking with Capsules!

Mary Ann

eComm Conference: March 3-5 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:00 +0000

I'll be doing a short talk at this eComm (Emerging Communications) conference in March. Come and check it out. It's a great lineup and interesting subject matter! I'll remind you again closer to March..
-Mary Ann

Google and T-Mobile to announce first GPhone!

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:43:00 +0000

Hello Geeks and the Culinarily Curious,

The first Android phone, the G1, will be announced in roughly a half hour from now here--and it will also be available after the fact:

We at Cooking Capsules and as members of the growing community of Android developers and fans are very excited about this first gPhone! There will be many more, but this first announcement has been very long anticipated.

We are working away getting ready to launch our first of many offerings called, "Cooking Capsules Taster" which will be available for download onto this phone.

This first one is free and will be comprised of eight delicious recipes- four Indian and four with a French flair. A good way to get to try out our exciting new way to cook!

Stay tuned for more details on how to get cooking with your phone!

-m.a.c.

Tongue tied with Alice Waters @ Slow Food Nation

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:16:00 +0000

I went to the Slow Food Nation Taste Pavilion event last Sunday with Sukhjit and Igor.

Signing books under the glaring lights of 60 Minutes cameras was Alice Waters.

Something unexpected happened. I became completely star-struck. I've met my share of noteable people over the years and usually don't get terribly wierd. But not since I met Michael Stipe at the 40 Watt Club years ago have I felt this. (When I spoke with Stipe I found his voice so disarming I had to set my water glass down to keep from spilling it--but I was so much younger then).

Maybe it was the 60 Minutes boom over my head, maybe it's that hers is just the sort of approach to food that I would like to help to spread with Cooking Capsules. I don't generally claim to know who's who in the industry, but I deeply admire her commitment to connecting people with the source of their food. (I'd love to see a Slow Food channel on Cooking Capsules in the future or even just a partnership where we make some of Alice Waters' recipes and link to her projects to spread the word.)

So I said something like: "I ummm..like what you uhhh...are doing..."

(Shit. If that lands on 60 Minutes I will crawl under a rock. I actually waited for a window when they had gone away, but they came back just in time to catch the silliness.)

I did manage to tell her very briefly about Cooking Capsules and hand her a card with the url on it. I asked her if she would take a look at it. She humored me with a smile and a nod. How awkward for her to be under such a spotlight in front of cameras and then have idiots like me standing there lamely trying to tell her about their company.

Oh, well! I got the opportunity to meet her and I now have her lovely book, "The Art of Simple Food". Meeting her has inspired me to learn more about her projects and the philosophies of Slow Food. Perhaps the next time I meet her it will be under better circumstances.

Sukhjit admitted to being star-struck too, but surely she formed words that formed reasonable sentences. She's used to having cameras in her face and a boom over her head. ;-)

I have to say- while I enjoyed the Slow Food event- standing in mile long lines for every tasting with very few places to sit, didn't seem in keeping with the philosophy somehow. I guess this is their biggest event yet and is still experimental. Every taste I had of everything was good though.

One moment that made me laugh was when I got a small cup of organic coffee and asked if they had any cream or milk. The woman informed me they didn't have any "additives" available.

One of the best things besides some tasty marinated squid I tried was some brick fired pizza from Chez Panisse (Igor and I actually talked with the chef who assembled the oven brick by brick for the event) and a very lovely, fresh-as-a-summer-day pluot sorbet from Gelateria Naia. I can almost taste it now.

-m.a.c

Google introduces the winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Official Google Blog: Introducing the winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

Cooking Capsules wins TOP 20 in the Android Developer's Challenge Round 2

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:18:00 +0000

It's Official! WE WON!!!!! (again) Yipeee!!!

Cooking Capsules has officially landed in the Top 20 of the Android Developer's Challenge! For this my teammates and I will be awarded a collective $100,000 from Google.

You can see the entire list of apps here with descriptions and screenshots of each.

The Round 2 Cooking Capsules development team:

Ivan Angelov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Tu Chengyuan in Beijing, China
Travis Choma in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mary Ann Cotter in San Francisco, U.S.A
Tom Gibara in Birmingham, U.K.
Muthu Ramadoss in Chennai, India

So you can see it turned into quite an international line-up! (I feel like I should thank Skype!)

I would also like to credit several other people who have contributed significantly to the success of Cooking Capsules:

Erika Bauer, User Experience Consulting
Sukhjit Ghag, Show Host and Content Provider
Jane Gideon, P.R. Consultant
Christine Gonce, Show Host and Content Provider
Shane King, D.P. and Editor
Dia North, Video Producer
Igor Stalew, Video Producer
Jason Wolos, Crew

And all the family and friends who have supported this endeavor and helped us brainstorm and network. Thanks for being there and believing in this. It has only just begun, but we are off to an auspicious start! I've also been blessed to receive lots of messages from people excited about the app who have comments, questions and suggestions. It means a lot.

Also thanks to the other members of the Android community. I am honored to be among them. There are such exciting apps throughout the top 50 and beyond.

And last, but definitely not least, thank you on behalf of all of us to Google and the groundbreaking Open Handset Alliance who did the judging. It is an extraordinary honor and an exciting time.

Thank you!!

Please stay tuned for more Cooking Capsules news as it arises!

-Mary Ann

Android Marketplace Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:04:00 +0000

For the Android curious:
Google has just announced on their Android blog that there will, in fact, be an Android Marketplace, akin to Apple's App Store. They will also soon be announcing the winners of the second round of the first Android Developer's Challenge! Stay tuned...
-Mary Ann

Android is a volcano.

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:33:00 +0000

On August 15th, I replied to a TechCrunch article entitled:

T-Mobile Is Dreaming Of Android Riches. And It Might Have To Keep Dreaming.

It got good reactions from people, so I thought I'd re-post it here (slightly edited and sans some of the typos I later found). I like it myself because it explains a lot about how much has been happening both with the industry and Cooking Capsules.

Mary Ann - August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am PDT

Here is a story, and it is just my story, but I believe it reveals a great deal about the massive wave of change unfolding in the U.S. mobile industry.

I had an idea that had been brewing for a while- one that I thought could provide much needed simplicity to a certain core element of daily life: cooking. A light bulb went off in February, that what I had been envisioning and brainstorming with friends would be best made into a mobile application. My experience in the mobile space was limited to some graphics I’d designed for a couple of clients’ mobile applications, but I knew about user experience and interface design from my web career, so I drew up a wireframe and some rough screen designs, showed them to a friend with a mobile games company to see what he thought and began to research what would be involved in getting such a product developed and distributed. This became a full-time pursuit.

Since I was new to the industry and had a lot to learn, I talked with and heard about many who had been through the trenches. I went to an SDForum event where the panel was so grim about opportunities for developers that one developer asked “Well what the hell would you suggest we do?” All drew a blank except one mobile software executive who said, “You have to weigh if the U.S. market is worth it”. His company’s primary markets: Japan, China and Italy.

So here we were, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and it is being recommended that we skip the U.S. and develop for Europe and Asia. And it actually made sense. I was relieved he’d said that. Who wants to hassle with this bureaucratic environment, when there are much more innovative and open markets globally?

The only other hopeful thing I heard that day was when a Nokia guy stood up and said that Nokia is interested in distribution and if they liked an app, then a licensing deal could be done within a couple of weeks, not the usual months it took with carriers.

I took away from that panel the pain that the seasoned developers had been feeling for so long, but also basked in the rays of a few bits of freshman optimism- these were that I could:

A. Go global until the U.S. came around.
B. Approach Nokia in the future with my app.

Android was scarcely mentioned at the SDForum, but just one week before, on the advice of a friend, I had found someone on the Android message boards who would make my application wireframes and design into a functioning application and we would enter the Android Developer’s Challenge.

I began to read about and think about Android and it’s promise, all the while refining the app and working with my Challenge partner to make it work on the Android emulator.

As the weeks of work continued, it became apparent that the open vision of Android was quietly changing the entire nature of the U.S. mobile market, and this contest was very representative of the shift towards valuing the offerings of developers and ultimately giving them a reasonable variety of paths to entry into the market. As my awareness grew, I would breathlessly explain Android to people and what it would mean to the industry- sometimes to dull eyes, sometimes to a hint of interest.

In March, Steve Jobs announced the $100 million iFund and also that, to the delight of many, they would open the iPhone SDK. Blackberry announced the $150 million Blackberry fund shortly thereafter. Open was the new black.

March was also the Android Challenge deadline, and we submitted our entry. We were later notified that we were among the Top 50 out of the 1,788 submitted apps, and we split the $25,000 prize. We added several more international teammates for the second phase and got to work to refine and augment the app to compete against the other 49 for Top 10 or 20 status. We are awaiting the results.

Being in the top 50 has afforded us great viral publicity, which felt a bit awkward when we were still in our alpha stages and yet to test on a device (we are still yet to test on a non-emulator), but it was also extremely validating. We’ve had mentions in (among others) Smart Money, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, Nikkei (Japan), even two separate pieces in Stuff.tv (UK men’s magazine). I’ve been invited to speak on several occasions about my thoughts about the future of mobile.

In July, a screenshot and description of our app, Cooking Capsules, appeared in Wired magazine- the first listed of their four top picks of indie apps for Android. Also that month the Apple App Store opened it’s virtual doors and people, despite the economic times, stood in long lines to get their hands on a 3G iPhone and began downloading apps at a pace that could only be described as unbelievable.

What a shift from the grim recent history reports from developers a few months before at the SDForum panel! When else in history had developers had any real mention, much less extreme recognition? Developers with good ideas have been around a while- they just haven’t had an industry that supported indie players and innovation until now. The barriers were too great.

Perhaps I lack what you would consider an objective opinion as one of the Android Top 50, but frankly, I am as in the dark as most (Top 50 and otherwise) about the nuts and bolts about how exactly this will all play out. I too, very much, want much more light shed. But I am fueled by excitement about the massive and disruptive changes that the very whisper of Android has so swiftly perpetuated throughout the industry. And all of this, while, like the apps, it still has yet to even launch on the first of many handsets.

I was on the Mobile Web Wars Roundtable (ahem- raising my hand high when you asked who cares about Android), and let me state once again, and more strongly (and uninterrupted) for the record:

To say that I am excited about Android would be a considerable understatement. Android is a volcano. Not the kind that erupts suddenly like fireworks, but the kind that slowly releases molten lava that changes the entire landscape in such an unpredictable yet enduring way that no one realizes the impact until they look back at a snap shot from a few months or a year back to find the old way unrecognizable.

While anticipating the first phone is exciting, and we all have high hopes, Android isn’t about the first physical gPhone to come to market. Android is about affecting positive change throughout an entire market that has been crying out for openness for years. Android has impacted the opening up of the industry and they are getting ready now to begin to compete with those already enjoying the fruits of the very landscape they have so greatly influenced.

Android Developer's Challenge Round 2

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0000

So, in case you haven't been following along- the top 50 winners of the Google A.D.C were all qualified to compete with one another in a second round to try to land in the Top 10 or 20 for another prize. So, we added several great members to our international team, worked very hard, and entered round 2 on August 5th. We don't know exactly when the results will be announced, but hopefully within the next 2-3 weeks.

So I thought my life might slow down after this Challenge was over, but I have more than ever to do to get Cooking Capsules ready for launch.

For one thing, we've got serious capsules to manufacture! So we are seeking food industry sponsors to team up with who have some killer recipes for us to try and are excited by what we're doing. So if you are with a food related company- let us know if you'd like to sponsor a block of shows! We want to cook your stuff and feature your brand!

Gosh, I'm not even going to go into all the other volumes of things to be done. I drew a big mind-map of it yesterday. It's crazy. But good-crazy. Exciting-crazy.

I am so grateful for all of the people with help, advice and contacts to offer. It's amazing how this really keeps things moving forward in crucial ways it couldn't without this wonderful eco-system of people who are helping directly or indirectly. It's pretty interesting and wonderful how many people are excited about it and willing to help.

Anyway, cross your fingers my ADC partners and I win Top 10 or 20 in Phase 2!
And also that Cooking Capsules connects with some cool sponsors soon.

Stay tuned!
Mary Ann

Techcrunch "Mobile Wars" Roundtable

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:25:00 +0000

I had a great time yesterday at the Techcrunch Roundtable and party.

It should be said that I would do a few things differently if I could do it again- namely, be on time. I arrived a little late (post introductions) and had to navigate where on the panel I was to sit. I'm not gonna lie. I felt bad and was quite embarrassed. I waited it out a bit in the audience until I could sneak up and claim my seat (once I could spot where it was, which was a task). Once I achieved that and began to decompress, I managed to get a few words in edgewise.

This panel definitely dispelled any myth that women talk too much (although this post might not). I probably should have been prepared for the Hardball style format, as the name of the thing was "Mobile Wars". I can't help but wonder if it were a panel of 19 women and one man (if there was a way to find 19 female mobile industry execs) how it would have been different. Firstly it might have been called "The New Mobile Landscape or Ecosystem" and perhaps it would have been a more nuanced discussion, rather than the framing some of the panelists put around it with statements like "Nokia is irrelevant" and "I need Android like a hole in the head". The responses I have to those statements: "Nokia is by no means irrelevant" and "Maybe you don't need Android, but the industry does."

That said, it was an incredibly impressive roster of people on the panel, and the opinionated shop banter was very entertaining. Squeezed (quite literally) in between a Yahoo exec. and the CEO of Loopt, I think it's safe to say I was the newest to the industry on the roundtable.

As a sef-titled "Overnight CEO", I'm admittedly not too practiced at public speaking- it is a fear I am facing and a skill I will need to develop, as I am increasingly being asked to speak. I did alright. I said a few things (besides umm). Here are some things I said followed by some I would have said if...umm... I'd pursued the airtime/possessed the finely honed interrupting skills of some of my distinguished colleagues:

Here I would have elaborated on Android and the other platforms.

I said on the panel, "it is hard to know where it (Android) is going". This is true, but should have been paired with: Android (which hasn't even come out yet) is changing the mobile landscape and creating a domino effect of companies opening up the industry. This is no small task (so cut them some slack), and while it remains to be defined what 'open' will mean, since there are many players with many interests, Android will run through multiple carriers on multiple handsets. This is extremely significant. It is very akin to what Microsoft did with Windows, that Apple didn't do (But of course I view Android as becoming a superior OS to Windows).

Apple is extremely successful, even if they are only a fraction of the market, so for them tying software with only their own (brilliantly designed) hardware made sense. Apple tying themselves exclusively to one carrier (ATT) in the U.S., well, that only made sense in the context of a closed environment, which it was. This closed environment is only now shifting- and again, the shift to a more reasonable and open environment, it seems, is being spearheaded by Google, the O.H.A., LiMo, and now Nokia with Symbian. Not to be ignored or flippantly disregarded is the global market share and importance of Nokia, and it is extremely interesting this move they've made recently to buy Symbian.

Even Apple's app store, or at least the timing of it, seems to me to be a reaction to Android. Greater openness is the promise of all of these companies and alliances, but there are undoubtedly many layers of politics, there is bandwidth ownership, there are carriers who are going to have to take an immediate creative and progressive approach if they hope to remain relevant, and there are a ton of companies who want to get in on distribution. Who will win? Whomever is the most realistic, flexible, forward thinking, strategic and progressive.

Okay so I would have said some of that and maybe more. If I could have. But there Was. No. Way.

Also I would have addressed Robert Scoble's comment (which I didn't at all, but it's posted below) on the missing apps and opportunities. Political and travel were two he mentioned. He's so right. There are loads of lifestyle utilities missing from the space now. It is saturated with certain categories, and there is room for so much innovation. I wonder where all of the useful utilities are? That is why I came up with Cooking Capsules. People eat. People are confronted with the question of what to eat. Everyday. People are busy. People would cook more if it was made easier. Games can make life fun, but good mobile utilities will make life fun and easier. I agree, Robert! Where are the useful apps? There are a few out there, but they are still missing, as Robert says, from many wide open categories.

And when that question from Twitter came in, and Erick re-phrased it to be essentially the question he asked of a VC on the panel before (What is missing? What categories aren't people thinking about that they should be?), I answered it with four words. These I would not change. They were the most interesting set of words I'd said all day. And given the audience reaction, I guess they agreed.
(for context see the minute from 2:20-3:20 in the below clip)

I stand by it.

It's true.

Erick Schonfeld will cook with his phone.

Big thanks to Erick, Techcrunch and the event sponsors.

It was an honor and a blast.

-Mary Ann

ps- Next time, should there be one, I will be annoyingly early, speak up more (read: interrupt), and will undoubtedly have more to say about Android and the industry (since a lot happens in mobile in a week, month and year).

Google I/O update and killer media coverage

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:02:00 +0000

I'm admittedly a bit behind on blogging. So much has happened! The Google I/O conference was wonderful- I've been meaning to post pictures. I got to meet a lot of great people from Google, such as Dan Morrill, as well as many of the other Challenge winners. It was so much fun and we got really positive feedback. Two of my challenge partners were here from out of the country, so I got to meet them in person. They are now back home in India and Holland and we are working hard with the rest of the team to try to place Cooking Capsules in the Top 10 and prepare it for market.

I was interviewed by a Japanese journalist from Nikkei publications, and showed up in an article I couldn't read. The translation software made it a rather amusing read, but it is a real honor. My PR friends tell me this is like the Wall Street Journal of Japan. Speaking of the WSJ- Cooking Capsules got a nice mention in Smart Money magazine (the WSJ magazine), but apparently they don't archive the articles for long so the link is now broken (so I sadly removed it from our press page.)

Then the July issue of Wired came out with what I consider to be the first really comprehensive article about Android and it's eco-system. And they placed Cooking Capsules first of their top picks for Android apps! The design and editorial illustration at Wired has always impressed me. I love the way they make the featured apps look so tangible- like something you could hold in your hand. It makes me want to snap it in there with some of the others and take them for a spin! (It is funny developing pre-device release.)

I have to admit I look at the Wired article in the magazine and online nearly every day to make sure I didn't dream it. I considered buying a million copies and wallpapering my office with page 138s, but instead I've pulled my head out of the clouds (as much as possible) in order to focus on the task at hand- which is making Cooking Capsules the best it can be along with an amazing team of developers and content makers. There is volumes to be done and a lot to be figured out, but I'm committed and so are the people I'm working with. We want Cooking Capsules to change the way people cook.

-m.a.c.

Google I/O conference

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:47:00 +0000

Today and tomorrow the Google I/O conference is being held at the Moscone Center here in San Francisco. My Android Challenge partner, Muthu Ramadoss is here from Chennai, India. We have some celebrating to do!! Also attending is Travis Choma, a talented developer who has joined our "Phase 2" Challenge team and is here from Amsterdam for I/O and the Apple Dev. Conference coming up. We've all three had a chance in the past few days to get to know each other in person, which has been great.

Both guys have plans to stay in San Francisco for several weeks. It should be a busy and interesting time at I/O and beyond.

It will be nice to meet some more of the people in the Android community, most of whom I only know from message boards and e-mail.

Our team still has a crazy amount of work to do yet for Phase 2, but we are off to a great start, and I/O will surely provide additional inspiration!

Maybe I'll see you there :-)

-MAC

WE WON!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:41:00 +0000

I am reeling! Today I was notified that Cooking Capsules has won the first phase of the first ever Google Android Developer's Challenge, which means wonderful professional recognition and $25,000 of seed money.

We were one of fifty teams to win out of 1,788 entries. We are so delighted and honored, and cannot wait to further build the application for Round 2.

This is a peak moment if I've ever had a peak moment. I am so passionate about this idea, which I've been developing for some time now, and I'm thankful that the panel of judges from the O.H.A. and Google Inc. understand the great utility and widespread appeal of the "Capsules" concept too.

Thanks to Google (especially those on the Android team), the O.H.A., and my friends and family who have supported me and helped me form ideas. And most thanks, of course, to my Challenge partner, Muthu, in Chennai, India for matching my insane hours to make the application "go". I look forward to many more crazy hours this month to refine and enhance Cooking Capsules for round two!

Wish us luck!!

-Mary Ann

Fingers crossed!

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:49:00 +0000

Well, I am going to bed tonight, hopeful that I will find a happy e-mail about the Android Developer's Challenge results in the morning. The results are expected this week, but it was left a little open ended, so who knows. All the teams are on pins and needles wondering what the panel of judges from the O.H.A has decided. Hopefully they were hungry when they looked at ours. We meant to put that in the accompanying "read me" file: "Please do not eat within 4 hours of viewing our application". heehee!

Baked Brie with Port Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:33:00 +0000

Aloo Parantha Appetizer

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:23:00 +0000

Cooking Capsules (tm)

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Ann) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:30:00 +0000

Smart Capsules(tm) is in the development phase of their first utility!

It's called Cooking Capsules, and may just revolutionize the way you cook.

The idea is to use Cooking Capsules on your smart phone to "Watch, Shop, and Make" a meal, a dessert, a snack-- whatever you fancy.

Browse for a recipe using our search tools or choose from our rotating featured recipes, then:

1. Watch: A short video (between 1 and 3 minutes long)...
2. Shop: Equipped with GPS navigation to your nearest market, check off the built in list (and add other items if you wish).
3. Make: You've seen how it's done, you've got the goods, now use the step-by-step recipe checklist...

And viola! Simple elegant food for you and your guests (or just you!). It is not only a time saving convenience but is entertaining and environmentally friendly (no cook book, magazine clipping, or written/printed lists)

Right now we are in development for the very exciting Google Android platform, a new operating system for mobile devices. Google and a very impressive roster of technology players formed the Open Handset Alliance. The industry is in for a big wave of positive change and healthy competition. Speaking of competitions...

The Cooking Capsules mobile application for Android will be submitted to the Google Android Developer's Challenge. While we know there will be a lot of submissions (actually we have no idea how many), we are hopeful they find our utility as smart and fresh as we do.

Fingers crossed!

The next post(s) will be the first two cooking shows.