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An app that really is "free as in beer" 27 Apr 2013 | 04:43 am
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 Prague app takes this literally - it provides actual free beer. The latest update t...
Nelso Prague App Now a Top 10 Travel App in Russia 25 Feb 2012 | 08:24 am
A few weeks ago, we finally started charging for our Nelso Прага app ("Прага" is "Prague" in Russian). Earlier today, it moved into the top 10 for travel apps in Russia (#7).
Improved coverage of Sweden 29 Sep 2011 | 12:21 pm
Our roaming team of iPhone-wielding data collectors drove down the west coast of Sweden over the past few days, dramatically improving our coverage of Göteborg and Helsingborg. Helsingborg in particul...
The "Starbucks" of Norway 29 Sep 2011 | 06:14 am
While translating some text from Norwegian to English, I was surprised to find the word "Starbucks" in the English translated text, because Norway doesn't have any Starbucks locations. What was trigge...
Covering a city in less than a week 24 Sep 2011 | 03:22 pm
Using our proprietary iPhone app to collect data, a team of four has completed data collection for the center of Oslo, Norway in less than a week. Each user added on average 250 places a day. We now h...
Is the GoogleBot finally paying attention to microformats? 5 Sep 2011 | 11:06 am
While checking our ranking on various Google local sites, specifically "supermarkets in Copenhagen" ( Supermarkeder i København), we came across this page in the results (see screenshot if the page ha...
Politically Correct Local Search 23 Jun 2011 | 06:17 am
In the process of double checking the phone number for the Restaurant Peking, a Chinese restaurant in Prague, I got a strange search result from Google (see screenshot). Google has a listing for the r...
Tábor 18 Jun 2011 | 04:01 pm
Our smallest city yet for serious data collection: Tábor, Czech Republic. With only 35,000 inhabitants, shouldn't take long to cover.
Cheese Bread 18 Jun 2011 | 01:28 pm
Brewsta of Czech Please posted photos of a new Georgian place in Prague called Chačapuri, which means "cheese bread" in English. I'd never heard of this dish, usually transliterated as Khachapuri, but...
Ústí nad Labem 2 Jun 2011 | 07:55 am
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 experiment. We expect less competition from other local search sites in ...
