Published by joost, August 13th, 2008
YelloYello staat in de lijst/video van 33 hete Web 2.0 bedrijven. Erg leuke video (dank aan de makers!).
We staan op de 32e plaats (van de 33).. maar dat komt omdat onze naam YelloYello is en nou eenmaal niet AlloAllo kwam ik achter
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Published by joost, July 28th, 2008
We’ve just launched a first version of our iPhone site. It does not include all features of YelloYello.com yet but has a nice iPhone interface. Check out the following movie to get an idea. For the Dutch Press Release check here.
The above is a link to YouTube since the movie has annotations that are not […]
Published by joost, July 25th, 2008
You’ve just eaten a fantastic dinner in a restaurant. It cost a lot of you precious euros but it was worth it. You ask the waiter where you can pay with your PIN-pas (yes, that’s what we Dutchmen use). The waiter says you can’t pay with PIN… OUCH!
Two options:
Go and do the dishes..
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Published by joost, July 23rd, 2008
Delft, 28 juli 2008 – YelloYello, de meest vernieuwende bedrijvengids van Nederland, biedt een compleet open online bedrijvengids. Zowel gebruikers als bedrijven kunnen bijdragen aan de gids in de vorm van reviews, rapportcijfers, nieuwe vermeldingen en door het maken van handige lijsten. Nu de iPhone ook in Nederland is gelanceerd komen ze met een nieuwe […]
Published by joost, July 20th, 2008
For those who experienced some difficulties with YelloYello.com.. it grow out of disk space. Thanks to the many business owners and users uploading reviews, images, etc.. But the problems are solved for now..
Update: In the meantime we upgraded some of the hardware.. so everything should work even better.
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Published by joost, July 19th, 2008
When will the web-browser know where we are? Hopefully sometime soon.. probably not.
FireEagle (by Yahoo) is a nice first step. Have different applications tell FireEagle where you are and have web-apps request your location (with different accuracies) from FireEagle. Nice.. but not really straight forward and end-user friendly. End-users will have to have a FireEagle […]
Published by joost, July 14th, 2008
We at Joopp participate in the Sprout Challenger 50. The contest is a perfect fit with our YelloYello concept. Since you all know that YelloYello is in some way an alternative to the regular Yellow Pages like the Gouden Gids and ILocal.. and the main purpose of the contest is to be a ‘challenger’ :
But.. […]
Published by joost, June 7th, 2008
Yep, now you know.. you’re not the only one with problems.. spiders have them too. And I mean Web Spiders.
Say you are called Slurp, Googlebot or something Microsoftish.. you vist websites all the time.. and some websites don’t like that.. like imdb.com (The above image says: “Request Limit Reached: There have been an unusually […]
Published by joost, June 6th, 2008
Old question I hear you think But still it will get asked when you start Ruby on Rails projects for clients. One way of comforting a client is just naming a few RoR success stories: “Twitter uses Rails, it has about 8.000.000 unique visitors a month.”.
Evan Weaver has a nice comparison of some […]
Published by joost, June 1st, 2008
Internet Explorer has some influence on webdesign.. all webdesigners know it. You’ve designed a complete site that works in Firefox, Opera and Safari… but sadly not the one that is mostly used; IE.
So.. what do you do? You start fixing.. and how do you call your CSS classes that fix everything?
(This is the HTML source […]