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ZiTYZEN:81: August 2008

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Monday, August 25, 2008. Contests and online marketing. We have been working furiously for over one year now on ZiTYZEN.dk. And so far we have primarily been focusing on online marketing and SEO. As a means for online marketing we are currently only using Google Ads. But we have also tried Yahoo Search Marketing. And creating an easy contest for an iPod. Did not work particularly well but this is most likely caused by the fact that Google. Monday, August 25, 2008. Along w...

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ZiTYZEN:81: June 2009

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Thursday, June 4, 2009. The birth of an international company. ZiTYZEN is now officially an international company! We expanded to Norway, beginning with 7.403 places. I must admit that we came across a few surprises in the process: We thought Denmark and Norway were much more similar, than they actually were. (Still they were very similar). Thursday, June 04, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is written by me (Tobias Christensen), co-founder of the website ZiTYZ...

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ZiTYZEN:81: October 2008

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. As most other websites we what to make money from our users, well not directly from them but through ads. It's not that we what a ton of money, we just need some to keep fund the marketing campaigns and hopefully I'll get paid some day. Well anyways, the fact of the matter is that we've had Google Ads running ever since the publication of ZiTYZEN.dk. The first one the respond was Guava. So I took some screenshots, pulled them immediately, and ...

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ZiTYZEN:81: The birth of an international company

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Thursday, June 4, 2009. The birth of an international company. ZiTYZEN is now officially an international company! We expanded to Norway, beginning with 7.403 places. I must admit that we came across a few surprises in the process: We thought Denmark and Norway were much more similar, than they actually were. (Still they were very similar). Thursday, June 04, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog is written by me (Tobias Christensen), co-founder of the websi...

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ZiTYZEN:81: July 2008

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The idea is basically to make it as cheap and easy for the businesses as possible, so we also want to produce marketing material for them. There are numerous sms-gateways, so the first issue was to find the best and cheapest one, ours is called hardwired.dk. Then an agreement with a credit card gateway, FRIbetaling.dk. The integration between all the credit card systems and an easy UI on ZiTYZEN.dk. Proved the hardest issue to resolve. This blog f...

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ZiTYZEN:81: April 2009

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Yesterday we released German as a new language for ZiTYZEN. And severel more (e.g. Norwegian, Swedish, French, Spanish) are on the way. Another extension is that user-generated texts is auto-translated into the language you are using. If for instance you are browsing ZiTYZEN. For the auto-translations we use a plugin to Google Translate. Which works really nicely. Furthermore we've cleaned up a bit in the top-bar, making it look less cluttered.

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ZiTYZEN:81: November 2008

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Friday, November 28, 2008. Today I finished the developer API i've been working on for a few days. You can see it here: http:/ www.zityzen.dk/api/. If you are interested :-). Using the API it's possible to retrieve the images, reviews, upcoming events, and the most commen data associated with any given place, if you have the id. Furthermore it's possible to retrieve the images, reviews, upcoming events, and the most commen data associated with any places in a given zipcode.

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ZiTYZEN:81: January 2009

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Friday, January 2, 2009. Happy new year, and we have a new record! Happy new year to those reading the blog. Yesterday we had a new record, 5.077 unique visits to ZiTYZEN.dk, breaking the old record of 4.044, which was set on the 28th of December last year (only 4 days old! Friday, January 02, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog focusses on how we try to promote ZiTYZEN (and our dream) with a very limited budget, and the development of the technology behind.

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ZiTYZEN:81: October 2009

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Last weekend we released our new free iPhone application, you can find it on iTunes here: iTunes. Or read a bit about it here: Apptism. Initially we made it such that most of the information available on ZiTYZEN also is available on the iPhone version, though users are not able to log in or contribute in any way. If the application is successfull we will expand it, such that users can also uploads pictures, write reviews, etc.

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ZiTYZEN:81: Moving the development to Silicon Valley

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The development blog of ZiTYZEN. Friday, August 21, 2009. Moving the development to Silicon Valley. As of the end of August, ZiTYZEN.com. Will move it's development to Sunnyvale in Silicon Valley. There are a few reasons to this; We believe that if we are located in the midst of the area were most major international websites originate from and where the most innovative work is done. We will also become more innovative and learn much, ultimately making ZiTYZEN.com an even better website.