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theSUGGESTR Alerts – Let’s you know when you’re nearby a place you’ll love!

By admin, 14 May, 2009, 1 Comment

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:

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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 & 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.