11870.com in Metaki

by irenet - May 27, 2009

A new addition to our mashups page this week comes all the way from Chile.  Metaki is social networking,  microblogging and geolocalization in one.

Users can share about their location, their activity, see what their friends are up to… and find services in their area. That’s where 11870.com info comes in handy. Thanks to Metaki’s use of our API, the service can perform location-based searches and find out what 11870.com users have to say about nearby parks, cafés, restaurants, shops…

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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.

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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.

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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!

We’re still trying to find the .srt subtitles file for this one.

categories: around the net, just for fun

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