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Saturday, April 27, 2013

An app that really is "free as in beer"

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Free software can be "free as in beer" (i.e. no cost) or "free as in speech" (i.e. open source), or both. The Nelso Pr...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Nelso Prague App Now a Top 10 Travel App in Russia

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A few weeks ago, we finally started charging for our Nelso Прага app (" Прага " is " Prague " in Russian ). Earlier t...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Improved coverage of Sweden

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Our roaming team of iPhone-wielding data collectors drove down the west coast of Sweden over the past few days, dramatically improving our c...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The "Starbucks" of Norway

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While translating some text from Norwegian to English , I was surprised to find the word "Starbucks" in the English translated t...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Covering a city in less than a week

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Using our proprietary iPhone app to collect data, a team of four has completed data collection for the center of Oslo, Norway in less tha...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Is the GoogleBot finally paying attention to microformats?

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While checking our ranking on various Google local sites, specifically " supermarkets in Copenhagen " ( Supermarkeder i Københ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Politically Correct Local Search

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In the process of double checking the phone number for the Restaurant Peking, a Chinese restaurant in Prague , I got a strange search result...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Tábor

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Our smallest city yet for serious data collection: Tábor , Czech Republic. With only 35,000 inhabitants , shouldn't take long to cover.

Cheese Bread

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Brewsta of Czech Please posted photos of a new Georgian place in Prague called Chačapuri , which means "cheese bread" in English...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Ústí nad Labem

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We've started serious data collection in our first city of less than 100,000 inhabitants — Ústí nad Labem . In a way, this is an experim...
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