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"OpenTable is continuing its efforts to get more social by releasing a new Facebook app Thursday that gives restaurant-goers a way to share their dining history with friends.\nThe new app, called Places I've Eaten, lets users list and rate the restaurants they've been to, and those that they'd like to visit, as well as see the places that their friends have listed and rated. OpenTable lets you choose whether to keep your listing private, or make them available on Facebook for others to see. \nThe app also provides a simple mapping feature, so users can search for restaurants based on their rating, what they're best known for (e.g. kid-friendly, scenic view, etc.) and the places your Facebook friends have visited. Each result includes a link to find a table, which directs you to OpenTable's website.\n\nThe Facebook app is just the latest effort from OpenTable to make its restaurant-reservation service more social. Earlier this year, the company acquired FoodSpotting, a food-discovery app, for $10 million in an effort to prompt its users to share and discover pictures and reviews of dishes at restaurants.\nAs OpenTable's CEO Matthew Roberts told Mashable at the time, \"We think there is a big opportunity for you to look at a restaurant and look at the dishes that were loved at that restaurant by your friends as a way to inform the dining decision.\" This same logic likely holds true for OpenTable's new Facebook app: providing users with new and better ways to see what restaurants their friends visit as a way to inform their own dining decisions; this then leads to improved satisfaction when using OpenTable.\nImages courtesy of Flickr, Robert Scoble and OpenTable"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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