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What are people saying about a restaurant?

We are now showing the latest Twitter tweets about a restaurant. This gives you an instant impression what people like you and me think about a venue.

Sometimes the search is less than accurate - we know this and are working to improve it. But we think the immediate value is worth it!

As always, please let us know what you think!

In order to cope with witU's growth, we have moved to a new dedicated server yesterday. Especially in the mornings (EST) our old server was struggling to keep up with the demand. Hope you notice the faster site and have fun with witU!

If your restaurant is not listed on witU yet, you can add it now yourself. It's completely free to add a basic listing. If you would like to make your restaurant bookable online, please get in touch with us and we can help you get set up. There is no fee for it, but we charge a small fee per booked cover. Click here to add your restaurant.

Today we are adding another 8,000 restaurants in the US. These restaurants are not bookable online yet, but you can start adding your reviews already while we will be working to make more of the restaurants bookable. As always, let us know your feedback, and thanks for using witU!

As we introduced Facebook Connect in the booking form, we saw our conversion rates drop. When further looking into it, it became obvious that the login process was confusing. So we changed our booking form once again. Now you first book, and then in the confirmation you are asked if you want to create a new user or associate the booking with your Facebook profile. This is hopefully a clearer process. We also added a search in the header to give you direct access to restaurants and search via location.

This is big news for us at witU and hopefully for you too: You can log in to witU with your Facebook account! No need anymore to create a new user before booking or reviewing, just use your Facebook identity. Click the Facebook Connect to login, we will import your Facebook name and photo, and you are ready to witU! In addition...

• after booking, invite your Facebook friends to the restaurant,
• show your favourite five restaurants to the world via Facebook or a widget for your blog,

We are happy to welcome restaurants in Norway to witU. Vel bekomme!

Every time you post a review on witU, it will be tweeted for you automagically on the witU Twitter account (twitter.com/witu)! Because we also announce restaurant and witU promotions there, we think you should follow it! :)

We just released a couple of new features:

• Location search! On the right sidebar, just enter any location and witU will display restaurants near it.
• Street View. Where available, witU now shows the Google Street View on the restaurant pages next to the map.

We will continue to make witU even easier and more fun to use. Your feedback is welcome!

We are officially launching today! To celebrate this milestone, we are also starting a big promotion: Get $1 back for every restaurant that you book and review. And if you are lucky, you may even win your full dinner cheque back! Details of the promotion can be found here. Some of the features we have added since the beta:

• Facebook integration. witU nows posts a newsfeed story instead of changing your status. We think that's more appropriate - let us know if you like it or not.