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"Foodspotting, a geolocation guide for foodies, is asking its users to turn their seasonal indulgences into charity. Today, the service is launching a Spotathon challenge, in which users are asked to join together to spot a series of items and thereby feed families in need with help from the gift catalog at Heifer International.\nThe Spotathon challenge is rather simple: Users are asked to collaboratively complete a series of three guides (by spotting things like bacon, white asparagus and cheese curds). Upon completion, Foodspotting will donate a milk cow, a vegetable garden and a pig to those in need, thanks to Heifer International. Users, for their part, will score some badges.\nEach guide has 12 items, and users have until Christmas Day to spot them.\nThis isn't the first checkin for charity campaign that we've seen \u2014 Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla, to name a few, have all got in the game. But Foodspotting certainly is presenting users with some interesting food for thought, compelling them to think of those less fortunate while indulging in the treats of the season.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Muffet"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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