Archive for ‘3rd Party Integration’

theSUGGESTR Improves Content with CitySearch API

By admin, 30 March, 2010, No Comment

Recently CitySearch announced it’s new CityGrid API. This allows sites like theSUGGESTR.com to provide its users more information about businesses to help you make an informed opinion.  In our case we use this information to provide users with tips, offers and additional details about a business.  We’re also taking advantage of CityGrids multimedia to show new pictures and videos of different places.

You can see an example of our new business pages here.

We’ve also got some screenshots of our some of the new content we have thanks to the CityGrid API.

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RPXNow Review

By admin, 20 March, 2010, No Comment

Our site theSUGGESTR.com integrated with Single Sign-On provider RPXNow.  While we understand some of the concerns others have expressed regarding RPXNow we fully endorse this service for web owners who need a quick and simple solution that allows their users to login with a variety of user identities.

RPXNow provides the ability to login using a number of providers including but not limited to Google, Twitter and Facebook.  Integration is relatively easy and very well documented.  RPXNow has different levels of membership from free to paid all with some different functionality.  I suggest you give it a look to see if it works for your site.

If you want to see RPXNow in action go to theSUGGESTR.com and give it a try.

Update to Twitter Integration

By admin, 14 December, 2009, No Comment

We’ve recently released an update to theSUGGESTR.com that now allows for Twitter integration via the oAuth standard (this means is much safer for you since you don’t have to share your password).  Remember you can link your theSUGGESTR.com account with your Twitter account and have all your ratings and personalized suggestions posted so your followers can see.  You can also follow our bot (@thesuggestr_bot) and see ALL of the ratings and suggestions made on the site.

Remember you can also follow @thesuggestr to stay up to date on all the latest news about theSUGGESTR.com

Login to theSUGGESTR with your Twitter, Facebook, Google or Yahoo Account

By admin, 31 May, 2009, No Comment

Our goal is to provide you with personalized suggestions for places to eat, drink and shop wherever you are.  To make this process even easier than it was before we now allow you to register/login with your favorite accounts.  You can login with your Google, Yahoo, Twitter, FaceBook, OpenID and AOL accounts.  All you need to do is click the icons of the sites on our home page and authorize us.  From there you can login to theSUGGESTR.com with a single click.  No separate passwords to memorize.  We hope this makes it even easier for you to get the personalized suggestions you’re looking for.

We’ve implemented this solution through RPXnow.com.  We highly recommend this service as it’s been phenomenal in making our jobs easier in bringing to you this exciting feature.

theSUGGESTR & FireEagle – Together at Last

By admin, 23 February, 2009, 1 Comment

As we mentioned in our mobile site announcement we believe that one of the ways to make our personalized suggestions as useful as possible for you is to make sure they are available whereever you are. With that theme we’re please to announce our integration with Yahoo’s FireEagle. For those that are not aware FireEagle is a service that allows you to share your location with multiple applications. This is extremely useful so that websites can provide you location specific information even when GPS information is not readily available.

FireEagle provides two basic functions, it allows you to update your location and share it. With theSUGGESTR.com you can both update your location as well as use your current location to drive your searches. Once you’ve linked you’re FireEagle account to your theSUGGESTR.com account we will default your searches to your current FireEagle location. When you execute a search you can click the “Update FireEagle” link to update FireEagle with your new location. This way other sites can provide you location sensitive services without you having to update them.

You can find other FireEagle applications, including some simple programs that track your location and update your location automatically by visiting FireEagle’s website.

Once logged in, just click the Stay Connected link to get started with FireEagle and theSUGGESTR.

theSUGGESTR integrates with Twitter

By admin, 31 January, 2009, No Comment

A few days ago we announced our integration with BrightKite, today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve implemented similar integration with microblogging giant Twitter.

We’ve implemented the same two types of integration for both Twitter & BrightKite. The first is our TwitterBot. This bot shows every rating that occurs on theSUGGESTR.com. Subscribe to this if you’d like to see all the ratings on theSUGGESTR.com.

Our other type of integration allows registered theSUGGESTR.com user’s connect their account with their Twitter account. Once connected we will automatically post a message to Twitter account for each rating you make so your followers can know what you think about the businesses you rate.

If you have ideas on how we can improve our integration with Twitter feel free to comment on this post. Also don’t forget for the latest on the development of theSUGGESTR.com you can follow us on Twitter.

theSUGGESTR.com integrates with BrightKite

By admin, 29 January, 2009, 1 Comment

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve implemented two types of integration with microblogging site BrightKite.   BrightKite is very similar to Twitter but it also has a location based concept that allows to see what’s going on around you and check-in at your current location.

We’ve implemented two types of integration.  The first is our BrightKite Bot.  This bot shows every rating that occurs on theSUGGESTR.com.  This way you can use BrightKite’s features to see what’s going on around you!

Our other type of integration allows registered theSUGGESTR.com user’s connect their account with their BrightKite account.  Once connected we will automatically post a message everytime you rate a place on theSUGGESTR.com letting your BrightKite followers see what you think of various businesses.

If you have ideas on how we can improve our integration with BrightKite feel free to comment on this post.