Yet again, it has been a too long time since my last entry. Let's see if I get a handle on this blogging thing this try. A lot of happened in the meantime. For one backup brain motivation for blogging almost completely goes into my del.icio.us bookmarks. Increasingly, I am become aware of being read there, too and start to try to be more interesting in my bookmarking - but not always.
It has been more than a year, since we launched map.search.ch. The technology, or rather the movement behind its increased usage, has since been christened AJAX and after Google last February, Microsoft this summer, Yahoo yesterday launched their version in a similar style. I'd say the dynamic interface we did has been thoroughly validated in the market, which is very gratifying to see! And it's nice to see, that principles like strong back button support are becoming an standard part of AJAX development (Oh, I wouldn't ever claim that all this happened because of us. I'm sure that the technology and idea was ripe, but it makes me happy that we were to first to pluck it).
And of course, development on map.search.ch went on. It is documented in the (german) company blog at about.search.ch. Highlights include points of interest including live updated ones like free parking spaces, real time water temperatures (which was more useful in summer..), webcams and my favorite, the real time public transport schedules.
And as a special treat, map.search.ch got nice national recognition by winning the Master of Swiss Web 2005 award, and even by a large margin!
So much for the incomplete wrap-up of the last half year. I am currently very involved in a new project, which will shortly see the daylight. But now on to some stalled but hopefully more interesting posts!
Posted by seefeld at November 5, 2005 16:09