Digg.com founder Kevin Rose has demonstrated a forthcoming iPhone app called Oink, expected to be released shortly, that up-ends the model for finding out about local businesses by using crowd-sourced ratings of "things" and geo-location to develop the shortest possible answer to the question "where is the best (whatever) near me?" While the ratings would be dominated by things like food and drink, the app can rank just about anything multiple people want to comment on.
