11870.com and Internet Explorer 8

by irenet - March 30, 2009

If you’re using or plan to use the recently released version of Internet Explorer, here are a couple of instances where IE 8′s new features and 11870.com work together nicely.

Web Slice

We’ve developed a Web Slice that will allow you to keep up with new places and services added to your city or favorite geographical area. To get this, you simply need to visit the area’s page and filter the list of locations by new. IE 8 will display this icon if there is content to add. Clicking on it you’ll add a new web slice to your navigator that will tell you when new places and services are added to Valencia, Chicago or India.

You may also choose a particular category within an area: shoe stores in Madrid, nightlife in Milan and so on. Remember you need to be filtering services by new.

* Get the Web Slice for 11870.com

Accelerator

Another novelty is the accelerator. You can use this when you’re at another site and you want to search for something you see there on 11870.com. Forget cut and paste! Just select the text you want to search for.

In this example we were reading a blog that mentioned a hotel, and I wanted to find it on 11870.com. Selecting the name, clicking on All accelerators and Search with 11870.com took me to a page with these search results.

* Get the accelerator for 11870.com

Search

And last, but not least nor limited to IE users – it’s available for Firefox too- is an 11870.com search in your browser. You can add it anytime you’re visiting 11870.com or install it here.

Now you have it, enjoy!

categories: how to's, new!

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mmmm…. mashups

by irenet - March 19, 2009

This week we’re inaugurating a page with a use of 11870.com that we are very proud of: mashups. At 11870.com we’re committed to sharing content, a purpose that materializes in actions such as our agreement with Google Maps or our support of any developer who’s interested in using our API.

The growing number of projects using the API to create mashups (web applications that combine 11870.com with other data) has prompted us to create a special page for them on the site. The latest two, aquicerca.mobi and comil.us are iPhone apps, by the way.

Comil.us, created by Miquel Camps a.k.a gafeman, allows you to drag a place marker over a map to see what services (restaurants, hotels, bars, clothes shops…) are within a certain distance (300 m, 600m, 1 km) of this spot. A lighter version is available too! From it you can phone the business via Skype or even send a Twitter message with where you’re headed to. Another interesting thing about this mashup is that it’s been translated into quite a few languages.

Here’s a screenshot of what comil.us looks like from a computer.

The red place marker is the position you choose and the blue are restaurants in the area. Clicking on the blue place marks you’ll find details for the business in question.

categories: around the net, technical

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11870.com featured in Online Communities Handbook

by irenet - March 18, 2009

Published by New Riders, Online Communities Handbook, is a practical guide to creating and nurturing web-based communities. Amongst the very interesting real-world examples analyzed by authors Anna Buss and Nancy Strauss, there is a section devoted to 11870.com. The in-depth interview in this section touches on several aspects of our project.

The book is available through Amazon.com and, apart from providing a little insight into 11870.com, is a helpful reference if you’re interested in the field. Be sure to check out their website for more information on the book and its authors.

Nancy kindly dedicated a copy of the book to the 11870.com team:

categories: general, press

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Heavy rotation

by irenet - March 6, 2009

We’ve added some features to your media uploading. Previously we’ve mentioned how you can embed videos from 11870.com to your website, add youtube and vimeo videos to your places here or keep track of your favorite pictures and videos by other users on the site. Here’s one for the photographers out there, who mightn’t have noticed a couple of quick tweaks they can perform on pictures at 11870.com

After opening the dialog by clicking on add pictures, and uploading the images, you’ll see something like this:

The arrows to the left of the thumbnails allow you to rotate the pictures or change the order your media appears in.

You can come back to this form screen anytime by choosing to edit your entry or review of a service. But you can also rotate your pictures elsewhere…

On your homepage, choose your pictures and videos tab to see all your uploaded media. Click on any one to see it in all its splendor. Underneath you’ll find these two links. You can download your original picture and rotate it too.

Here it is before…

… and after

categories: features

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