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YelloYello in lijst van 33 hete Nederlandse Web 2.0 bedrijven

joost — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:07:37 +0000

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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YelloYello now available for iPhone

joost — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:46:05 +0000

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 shown in embedded videos.

Feedback is very much appreciated, so contact us if you have any!

Trainstations & ATMs now in YelloYello

joost — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:04:47 +0000

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..
Search for the nearest pinautomaat (ATM).

The second options is now supported by YelloYello . All 8000+ ATMs are included in our guide. You can show the nearest ones on the map as you can see on the image below or try it here.

Ooh.. and the same is true for trainstations! More to come!

One more nice thing, you can also write reviews on trainstations or add images to ATMs.

Growing out of your server..

joost — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:53:19 +0000

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.

Geolocation coming to the browser..

joost — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:49:19 +0000

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 (Yahoo) account, some software accessing and updating this account with your current location and actually using the account in third-party web-apps. Hmmm.. how many users will do this?

Google is taking another approach. They are already working on a Geolocation API for browsers that are empowered by Gears. Really nice.. and they are pushing it towards the W3C also. It seems that Google is again opening up more of their services to third party developers, even though they first didn’t want the world to know. And this is really end-user friendly.. when it is build in in all mayor browsers

One drawback.. what if we’re requesting the location of the users of our services from Google? Currently we’re doing this for geocoding already. Next thing we’re asking Google for our users actual location. Google..Google..Google.. scary..

Challenger50

joost — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:58:25 +0000

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.. to make a short story even shorter. Go and vote for us!

The problems when you are a spider..

joost — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:53:41 +0000

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 high number of pages requested by you”).

Does Ruby on Rails scale?

joost — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:24:03 +0000

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 big Rails sites on his blog. Together with some nice graphics. It shows Rails can scale.. and it also shows that’s not the only question. See his blog for more nice graphs.

So you see.. there are quite some site that have pretty much requests (vertical bar = # of requests). For example: twitter.com, yellowpages.com, etc..

How Internet Explorer influences webdesign

joost — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:00:34 +0000

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 of a top1000 alexa website :))

Into SlideShare..

joost — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:38:31 +0000

SlideShare is really cool. You can easily search for presentation on a subject and just mashup the contents of a few presentations into a new one. Which is great Previously we already had flickr to get some slide images from.. but now we have a complete storyline.

However.. some presentations can’t be used.. because they are too good. Check this one for example.. kudos to the maker