nobody wants to be just a number http://11870.com/en/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:24:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en As seen on TV http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/as-seen-on-tv/ http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/as-seen-on-tv/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:24:55 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=36 … 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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Our tastes are varied: soul, pop, rock, dance, flamenco… so it’s a pretty crazy list. Since muxtapes can only be 12 songs long a lot of team members got left out in the first one. They get dibs on choosing what goes on the next mix though, as we plan to update our tape from time to time.

Here’s what’s on 11870.mix Volume 1, and who chose it. Stay tuned for Volume 2!

irenet: Aroah - An orchid is a flower that thrives on neglect
urbilateria: Terremoto de Jerez - Fiesta en el barrio Santiago
ferujaldon: Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
overgon: Deep Dish - Flashdance
lngky: Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything
antiácido: Santogold - You’ll Find A Way (Switch & Sinden Remix)
fresus: Stereophonics - Jealousy
mitrofan: Havalina - Dónde Irán
dagger: Looptroop - Don’t Hate the Player
peralta: MGMT - Time To Pretend
alexei: Jaco Pastorius - Portrait Of Tracy
gemel: Interpol - Evil

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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:


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

]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/searchmonkey/feed/ Mobile-friendly version http://11870.com/en/blog/features/mobile-friendly-version/ http://11870.com/en/blog/features/mobile-friendly-version/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:02:19 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=27 Answering users requests for a better integration of 11870.com with mobile phone platforms, we’ve created a new light-weight version of 11870.com. It’s available at http://m.11870.com and features keyboard shortcuts and a practical link to a list of services in the vicinity of your original search.

The idea was to create a simple, easy to use and fast tool that would keep the amount of data transfer low so as to not run up your phone bill. :-)

Right now the version is only available in Spanish, sorry! Though if you look at the screencaps below you can see that all you really need to know to get around it is the word “buscar”. :)

You’ll be able to see the exact address and phone number for each service matching your search, and to dial that number as well… great for booking a reservation when you’re on the move!

You can also see a map, which is quite handy.

We’ll keep you updated on further developments as we continue to perfect this version.

]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/features/mobile-friendly-version/feed/ Firefox 3 http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/firefox/ http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/firefox/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:56:00 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=24 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. :D

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:

]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/firefox/feed/ Android and 11870.com http://11870.com/en/blog/tech/android-and-11870com/ http://11870.com/en/blog/tech/android-and-11870com/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:48:34 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=18 Excuse Moi, developed by Miguel Hernandez, is the first mashup to use 11870.com’s API with Google’s Android platform for mobile phones. The results can be seen in this video:

Using 11870.com’s API and the phone’s geolocation API, Excuse Moi can find places and services near the device in real time (including Google Maps paraphernalia, directions, etc). It’s also possible to personalize searches for a certain area: shops, restaurants, mechanics…

The application also allows a user to view everything 11870.com has on the businesses (reviews, pictures and so on). It also allows you to call the telephone number listed for a service on 11870.com and to locate the place on a map together with your own location.

We’re very pleased to see people using our API for interesting projects and look forward to see many more in the future.

]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/tech/android-and-11870com/feed/ And following the party line… http://11870.com/en/blog/events/and-following-the-party-line/ http://11870.com/en/blog/events/and-following-the-party-line/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:49:41 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=19 Last Friday 11870′ers and Madrid Babel met up at Madrid’s Barbu Club for Voyage, Voyage, an international travel-themed party… and we had a blast!

Thanks to everyone who came out! Thanks as well, to Madrid Babel coordinators Fran and Susana and to their host of collaborators for helping make it possible. Those of you who missed it - if someone did, the place was packed!- may peruse the pictures of this party on our Flickr page or at Madrid Babel’s Facebook or Yahoo Group.

If you were there and lucky enough to win one of our 11870.com t-shirts in the raffle, here’s a place to show it off.

Also we’d like to congratulate simplegearl, the winner of Landing in Madrid, read her entry here. With all the excitement, we forgot to have her remove the prize from it’s protective red bag for the photo op.

But yes, there’s an iPod Touch in the bag… :-)

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We’ll be announcing the winner of the iPod Touch that night, so if you’ve entered the contest check your e-mail the day before… and if you haven’t, this is your last chance to enter!

]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/events/madbabelparty/feed/ We’re on Prototype’s page http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/were-on-prototypes-page/ http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/were-on-prototypes-page/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 09:01:16 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=13 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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]]> http://11870.com/en/blog/around-the-net/were-on-prototypes-page/feed/ Landing in Madrid, where would you go first? http://11870.com/en/blog/events/landing-in-madrid-where-would-you-go-first/ http://11870.com/en/blog/events/landing-in-madrid-where-would-you-go-first/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 12:50:28 +0000 irenet http://11870.com/en/blog/?p=10 We’re teaming up with Madrid Babel these days for a contest and a party (yes, a party!). If you’re an expat in Madrid and want to meet other internationally minded people over drinks, karaoke, tapas or a movie, you’d probably love their group. Find out more about their activities through their page.

Contest: Win an iPod touch

We’re awarding the coolest most useful review recommending a service for expats in Madrid. The rules are posted here and the prize is an iPod Touch. We’ve dubbed the contest “Landing in Madrid” as the idea is for people to suggest their favorite places for a newcomer to make a smooth transition when arriving to this city. The way to enter is by tagging your review as “madrid babel”. The deadline for entries is June 5th, so you might want to get typing!


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