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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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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Adding a service before anyone else

by irenet - February 5, 2009

Sometimes the services you’re looking for don’t appear on 11870.com… yet! But remember, you can add your favorite services to the directory easily. Whether it’s to share with friends, or to keep track of where you’ve been, it can be done very quickly. Here’s how:

• When you’re logged in, clicking on add a service anywhere will take you to a form page. Just fill out the name of the business and the city it’s in, select the country as well. Then click on save.

• We often have the basic contact and address for the business. So the next screen is a list of possible matches for the service. Click on the business or on add it, if the business you wanted isn’t listed.

• If the service was listed, the form on the next screen is already filled out for you.  Is everything correct? Make sure, because the only way you’ll be able to change this type of information later will be by getting in touch with us.

• Clicking on add here will take you to the usual form page, where you can add a review, pictures, videos, tags, categories, etc, to the listing. You don’t have to though, clicking on save is enough to add it to your page and officially discover the service.

Apart from the personal satisfaction and good karma that come from tipping other’s off to great places through 11870.com, every time someone sees the page for the service they’ll know you were the first to comment on it thanks to the orange ribbon icon.

If you’ve made any mistakes filling out objective data (address, website, etc) for a service, just let us know and we’ll change it for you.

categories: general, how to's

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