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I'm Jason Long from Black Ant Media and these are some of the things I'm finding interesting from the world of web development, design, UI concepts, and anything else.

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New Site Launch - PhotoEats.com

I’ve made a couple of posts recently about a new site I’ve been working on and it has now been out in the wild for a week or two. My client decided to combine two of his passions, food and photography, into an online community of sorts. The result is PhotoEats.com.

One of the features I am most excited about is the search tool. I really like the live search-type search that Apple is using and I tried to replicate it for PhotoEats. Since people may want to search everywhere as well as near a specific locale, the search tool allows users to enter a location.

On the backend, the freeform text queries are performed by Ferret. If you are searching near a specific location, an additional GeoKit search is done and the intersection of the two result sets are returned.

The site is just getting off the ground, so there aren’t a ton of photos just yet. Feel free to visit and check the site out - and post some photos if you like!