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Posts from July, 2008

As seen on TV

by irenet - July 24, 2008

… and in the newspapers, and in magazines, and at the entrance to our favorite restaurants, and in your mobile phone too. 11870.com is garnering lots of media attention in Spain these days. Prestigious newspapers like El Pais, Publico or El Diario Vasco have covered us recently. We were even parodied alongside other very addictive social sites in El Jueves.

If you speak Spanish, or if you’re just curious about what our offices look like during business hours, you can watch a video of a TVE (Spain’s national public TV) program that featured us a few days ago.

categories: around the net, press

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picks from the office listening pile

by irenet - July 11, 2008

At 11870.com we share a love for music… and our records too. We thought it would be fun to let you in on some of our favorite songs via Muxtape.

Our tastes are varied: soul, pop, rock, dance, flamenco… so it’s a pretty crazy list. Since muxtapes can only be 12 songs long a lot of team members got left out in the first one. They get dibs on choosing what goes on the next mix though, as we plan to update our tape from time to time.

Here’s what’s on 11870.mix Volume 1, and who chose it. Stay tuned for Volume 2!

irenet: Aroah - An orchid is a flower that thrives on neglect
urbilateria: Terremoto de Jerez - Fiesta en el barrio Santiago
ferujaldon: Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
overgon: Deep Dish - Flashdance
lngky: Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything
antiácido: Santogold - You’ll Find A Way (Switch & Sinden Remix)
fresus: Stereophonics - Jealousy
mitrofan: Havalina - Dónde Irán
dagger: Looptroop - Don’t Hate the Player
peralta: MGMT - Time To Pretend
alexei: Jaco Pastorius - Portrait Of Tracy
gemel: Interpol - Evil

categories: just for fun

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Enhanced searches on Yahoo: Search Monkey and 11870.com

by irenet - July 3, 2008

SearchMonkey is Yahoo Search’s open platform, it allows developers to build online web apps that enhance Yahoo Search results: making them more visual and informative. Nayra Quesada, an 11870.com user and MBA student in Oviedo, has recently developed three SearchMonkey apps that display 11870.com results within your Yahoo Search results page.

To visualize the enhanced results you need to be logged in to Yahoo! and to have activated the applications. There are three different applications available: