We’ve made available a GeoRSS feed of all the ratings and suggestions made on theSUGGESTR.com. New ratings by our users as well as the personalized suggestions made for user will be shown in this feed. This way you can easily keep track of the suggestions we make.
GeoRSS feeds can also be mapped out with Google Maps as well.
See the GeoRSS feed on Google Maps.
Enjoy!
During our most recent update we introduced simpler and securer integration with Twitter. As part of this release we also have begun supporting the Twitter Location API. Once you link your Twitter Account with your theSUGGESTR account, and set it to tweet your activity, you can decide whether or not not you want us to share the locations of your ratings. As of now Twitter doesn’t do anything with these ratings but there are a number of exciting applications and ideas that will utilize this location information.
Our automated bot, @thesuggestr_bot also utilizes the location API, so if your building a location aware application the bot’s feed may be useful to check out.
Enjoy!
We recently announced our integration with FireEagle, a Yahoo! service that allows our site to know where you are. With the announcement of our new alerts feature we will email you when you are nearby any of the places that we personally suggest for you, on your wish list or on any of the custom maps we provide for your favorite TV shows. And of course you can customize how it all works.
Basically how this all works is:
1) You link your FireEagle and theSUGGESTR account (from the “Stay Connected” link).
2) You configure what events you want alerts for:
3) As your FireEagle account changes location we’ll determine if we need to let you know about a new alert. To avoid spamming you we won’t send more than 1 email a day and will only send emails when new suggestions are available.
That’s it, so imagine landing in a new city and automatically being sent a list of places you’re sure to love. Sounds good right? Well give it a shot and let us know what you think.
In the future we plan on using other location determining devices and software (GPS, Google Latitude, etc) but for now we are using FireEagle.
theSUGGESTR is all about providing you personalized local search based on your own personal tastes. This eliminates the need for searching through 100’s of reviews but instead now we can suggest a place that meets your needs. No where is this approach more beneficial than when you are away from home and only have your mobile device available to you. That is why we are excited to announce improvements to our mobile site.
This new version of our mobile site makes searching easier than ever. Just enter what your looking for (for example: pizza or lawyer or bar) and where your looking for it and we’ll do the rest. We’ll provide you our unique personalized results letting you know which business best fit your tastes. You also have available to you some of the sort options you’re used to from our regular site. Sort by personalized score, # ratings or average rating.
Another new feature is the ability to see your personal wish list from your mobile device. This makes it easy for you to find businesses you wanted to check out but haven’t had the chance yet. Don’t forget to rate it once you’ve checked it out. Speaking of rating businesses…
Our new mobile site allows you to rate businesses right from your phone. So the next time your bored and have your cell phone handy you can spend a few minutes rating some local businesses and improve your suggestibility score – which means better local suggestions the next time you need one.
One last note, we decided to keep this site as simple as possible so it would work on as many phones as possible not just the fancy ones. We’ll be working on some more advanced applications for iPhone’s and Blackberry’s in the near future.
Thanks for listening!
