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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.

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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:

11870 Application

11870 Product’s Images Application

11870 Product’s Comments Application

In the above screen capture you can see that all three applications are installed, though only Product’s Comments is displaying information.

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Firefox 3

by irenet - June 23, 2008

Last week, Mozilla launched Firefox 3. The judges are now deciding if the designated “Download Day” will in fact break the Guinness World Record of downloads in 24 hours. So far 557.000 plus users in Spain have downloaded the new version. We don’t know how many of these are among the 8 million downloads recorded in the 24 hour period being reviewed, but we do know where a couple of them came from.

Though we use different browsers at 11870.com, Firefox is quite popular with us. So we were very pleased to see that Spanish and Catalan speakers taking a look at the Getting Started section found 11870.com recommended there. In the Spanish version we were right up there with Craigslist and MySpace and in the the Catalan one we were in between Loquo and Facebook. Nice!

Screen caps follow. First in Spanish:

And here’s what it looks like in Catalan:

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We’re on Prototype’s page

by irenet - May 28, 2008

It’s silly, but it made our day…

We were looking at our logs today and saw we had a couple of visits redirected from Prototype’s page, the Javascript library that we use mainly for DOM scripting and whenever we use AJAX.

They’ve included our logo in the section “Who’s using Prototype?“, among companies like Apple, Ebay, Twitter and many more

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Mashups galore

by irenet - May 26, 2008

OpenMovil Forum, a platform backed by companies such as Nokia or Movistar, recently announced the winners of the second edition of its mobility Mashup Contest. We were happy to find that two out of the three projects awarded featured 11870.com’s API. Congratulations guys!

Ernesto Jimenez’s “Show Me” won first prize, the application allows a user to get a map on their phone of nearby services and events. You just need to send a text message with your location and the type of service or event you’re looking for.

The second prize was awarded to Imanol Igesias’s “Recomiéndame“, which is another nifty way to get recommendations from 11870.com and even your Twitter contacts.

Interested in creating your own mashup with 11870.com’s API? Visit this page.

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On the Map (Mania)

by irenet - May 5, 2008

We were psyched last week to find 11870.com mentioned on Google Maps Mania. The blog, though unofficial, is an ode to Google Maps and its gazillion possible uses (features, mashups, tools… you name it!) and an excellent source of practical information and/or Monday morning procrastination.

On an even lighter note, here’s one from the office: Esther’s thoughts on the day to day interaction between a designer and a programmer. It’s amazing how much you can say without words!