Archive for July, 2006

Successful Launch Party

To celebrate our recent alpha site launch we threw a great party yesterday night for over 80 guests. We would first like to thank very much all our guests for coming to our launch. It was both a privilege and a pleasure to have you amongst us.
Throughout the evening we demonstrated TrustedPlaces, made loads of […]

July 28th, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  4 Comments »

We have launched. Now the real hard work begins!

Yes we did make it this time and the site is open to invitations only at the moment. There are bugs and we are still improving some of the processes and tweaking the design, but the site is there. You can add a review, create your profile, view other users’ profiles, view places and do […]

July 21st, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  5 Comments »

T - 7

No, time has not stopped for the last week – we just decided to spend a bit more time in getting things right. It has been a gruelling week for the whole team and we came very close to delivering the service on schedule. We could have launched today and use the fact that we’re […]

July 14th, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  No Comments »

T - 8

8 days before the launch of alpha! Wow, just typing those words sends shivers through my spine, tomorrow it will be T – 7 the following day T – 6 and so on and on. Reminds me of the feeling of counting down the seconds before the beginning of the new millennium….That night the world […]

July 6th, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  1 Comment »

What are you top 5 bars?

I’ve asked a friend to help with testing the add review process by inputting some of his favourite places in London. OK, he’s just come back from 6 months of traveling, but he really struggled to come up with a short-list. I mean it was very difficult for him. You would think that he suffers […]

July 4th, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  6 Comments »

It looks like we’ll make it

Design and development nearly finished now – maybe that crazy date we set for launch was not that crazy after all! We also keep seeing lots of new people registering whose name we don’t recognise. The word is spreading
Met with Martin Varsavsky yesterday, founder and CEO of Fon – the WiFi  revolution leader.  If […]

July 1st, 2006  ·  Uncategorized  ·  No Comments »

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