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In two and a half weeks since its launch , micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Rose’ s Milk Studios , Rose tells me that the app is now seeing a new Oink (rating) every four seconds and almost a million user sessions. The app has also dropped the “Oink Builder” label and the invite only sign up system. And, while I was at first skeptical, it proved actually useful to me, as in I opened it up and scrolled through all my friends’ Oinks in order to determine where I would grab lunch with a friend yesterday (you can do this more precisely by opening the app, hitting “Discover” and sliding the top slider to a mile radius). “We’re pretty happy,” Rose says about the promising usership numbers, “There are services out there that tell you Disneyland is awesome, but nothing tells you which fries are good.

