{"id":613817,"date":"2009-12-23T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"8897 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2009-12-23T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:47:54","slug":"quick-app-review-mezzoman-brings-people-together-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/613817","title":{"rendered":"Quick App Review: Mezzoman Brings People Together&#8230;Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Jonathan%20I%20Ezor\/2009\/12\/mezzoman_2009-15-12_120424.png?resize=320%2C480\" alt=\"Mezzoman Search Box\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just tested a review copy of Mezzoman (available in the App Catalog), which is designed to help two (or three) people &quot;meet in the middle.&quot;On the whole, it seems to be a simple and useful app, although it has some limitations that are worth knowing about.<\/p>\n<p>The essence of Mezzoman is very simple: the user puts in his own address (or uses current GPS coordinates, requiring location services to be turned on), and one or two (for the paid version) other addresses, enters a search term (I tried two searches, &quot;kosher&quot; and &quot;bowling,&quot; since the program is not limited to food genres), selects a search results radius (apparently in miles, although it does not specify units), chooses from either review site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\">Yelp<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> as a search tool, and hits the big &quot;Mezzoman Go!&quot; button at the bottom of the screen. The Mezzoman client will search for businesses meeting the search criteria in the radius around the midpoint between the two addresses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/quick-app-review-mezzoman-brings-people-togetherliterally\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=3IZyjByQen4:mJfGWCOQCwc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=3IZyjByQen4:mJfGWCOQCwc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=3IZyjByQen4:mJfGWCOQCwc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=3IZyjByQen4:mJfGWCOQCwc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=3IZyjByQen4:mJfGWCOQCwc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/3IZyjByQen4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just tested a review copy of Mezzoman (available in the App Catalog), which is designed to help two (or three) people &quot;meet in the middle.&quot;On the whole, it seems to be a simple and useful app, although it has some limitations that are worth knowing about. The essence of Mezzoman is very simple: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zGh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}