In the April 25, 2008
Online Media Daily story "Gannett, Meredith Tapple Ripple6 to Launch Branded Social Net," Ripple6 CEO Sang Kim described an upcoming project for Meredith as the "first
social network for user recipe-sharing." There are actually a number of existing social networks devoted to recipe sharing, including the Reader's Digest property Allrecipes.com, which was established
in 1997.