by - 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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categories: around the net
by - May 27, 2008
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!
categories: events
by - 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.
categories: around the net, technical
by - 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
by - April 30, 2008
11870.com proudly hosted its first API workshop last week. For those of you who were wondering, API stands for Application Programming Interface. An API allows other applications and sites to include 11870.com features and content. A number of projects already use the 11870.com API: idealista.com, nvivo.es, unvlog.com, gotube… and that’s just the beginnning.
Luis and David led participants through a couple of examples thought out to illustrate the full potential of our API. If you’re a developer interested in learning more about this project, as a way of enhancing your own, you can find all the resources you need to get started at http://11870.com/api
Anyone else who just wants to see people geeking out a bit, should visit the related Flickr photoset.
by - April 30, 2008
Here’s a place for you to catch up on all things 11870.com: our projects, events, press clippings, random office stuff and any other updates we think you might get a kick out of. Like in the Spanish version, we’ll be featuring all kinds of stuff: from advanced techie issues (e.g. our API), tips and tricks for those of you who know your way around here, and anything fun we see going on with us our with users…
Feel free to tip us off to anything you’d like to read about here.
categories: general