Some things you don’t want to miss

by irenet - April 23, 2009

… like a celebration. We are celebrating our recent 2nd anniversary and the fact that we’ve  reached 100.000 reviews.

Today  –which happens to be Sant Jordi (St. George) in Catalonia, where the gift of a book is traditional on this day– we have a gift for all our users: Los Imprescindibles de 11870.com. The book is a guide of ‘indispensable’ or ‘essential’ places to visit in Madrid and Barcelona, as well as quick lists of what 11870.com inhabitants in Seville, Bilbao, Saragossa and Valencia have saved the most.

It’s basically a book full of cool places you shouldn’t miss, according to the people on 11870.com. The guide is in Spanish, but even if you don’t speak much of the language, you should have a look at it. We’ve kept it simple, and easy to browse. Plus, we believe that the people who wrote it know their stuff.

The contents are just the tip of the iceberg of what people are sharing on 11870.com, with extracts from 639 reviews and 580 pictures of 321 services, submitted by 436 users, plus maps, addresses, phone numbers…. Selecting 639 out of 100.000 reviews was a tough job, but it was worth it! We are very happy with the results and hope you all are too.

* Download Los Imprescindibles de 11870.com

* See some more pictures of the book

categories: events, general, how to's, new!, press

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adding an 11870.com service to your own website

by irenet - April 22, 2009

Here’s a small feature we’ve recently added to business listings on 11870.com. Anyone can add an 11870.com business profile to their website quite easily.

Rather than link to a profile page like this one

You can insert this into your page:

As you can see, this window includes objective 11870.com data (phone number, address…), a map of the service’s location and an idea of what 11870.com users have to say about it (links, number of reviews, pictures, etc).

All you need to do is click on add this to your site.

Then copy the code and paste it into your site.

categories: features, new!

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Code swarmy Monday

by irenet - April 20, 2009

This video is another way to watch our site evolve. In the code swarm graphic below each sphere represents a piece of the project, accompanied by the name of the person that was working on it and committed the changes. A couple of years become a couple of minutes.

If you’d like to learn more about our technology team and their work, check out 2E5E, the 11870.com tech blog. It’s in Spanish, but you can try a machine translation to get a sense of what’s going on. Though the code snippets and command lines should probably tip you off to what they’re writing about.

categories: just for fun, technical

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11870.com app for Facebook

by irenet - April 14, 2009

We now have an application for Facebook! It’s a basic version to start with, but it’s work in progress to keep improving on in the next few months. Right now this is what you can do:

First of all you can link your Facebook profile to your 11870.com page, that way what you save to your 11870.com page will automatically be published on Facebook as well. So you’re non-11870.com contacts will be able to see what you’re saving too.

Second, you can look up and share any service you’ve saved to 11870.com via posting it to your wall. It’s a great tool to let your friends know where you’re getting together for dinner, going for coffee or shopping, or what other services you’re considering or using.

Also, by linking your Facebook and 11870.com, you’ll be able to see who you know on both networks. From your Facebook homepage you’ll be able to filter by 11870.com and see what your friends have posted lately.

So now that you know about it, why not try it out?

• Go to the 11870.com application for Facebook.
• Read our help section on using the Facebook app.

We’d love hear from you on the app, if you find it useful, what features you’d like it to have… just write us an e-mail.

categories: around the net, new!

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11870.com and GeoMe

by irenet - April 1, 2009

GeoMe is a location based social network and mobile phone application that allows users to leave messages ‘on the map’. As Ric Ferraro, Managing Director of the company puts it: “the basic idea is to allow a community to leave virtual post-it’s in several places of the city through their mobile phones”.

Besides its essential use as a way for friends to communicate, GeoMe also displays a series of services (bars, hotels, restaurants, shops…) near a user’s location at any given time. And this is where 11870.com comes in, thanks to our API, our site is an important source of the information provided to GeoMe‘s community.

Apart from seeing a each service on the map, users can read an 11870.com review of it. “We liked the quality of the information of 11870.com, and the type of reviews by this community fit our model very well”, says Ferraro about choosing 11870.com as a source.

The company has recently released an optimized version of their application for Ericsson phones, but in the near future will work with other platforms. What else is up? “We’re experimenting with new concepts, even integrating location-based games, to constantly be offering something new to our community”.

We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome GeoMe and wish them the best of luck!

categories: new!

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