Posts tagged ‘location’

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.

theSUGGESTR Improves Personalized Mobile Suggestions

By admin, 11 February, 2009, 1 Comment

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!

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.