News from the Dev Team and Best Wishes!
Dienstag, Dezember 30th, 2008Hi folks, long time no news! We are busy getting our platform ready for 2009! Here are some new things we added recently:
1. Videos: two new introduction videos on the homepage, one about the benefits of earthfaves, one about how to add earthfaves – don’t miss them!
2. Your new location recommendation network size overview: the area on your user home page that shows the number of all the location recommendations you have from your friends and their friends at earthfaves!
3. New “Invite your friends” tool: on top of the page you now find the tool to quickly grow your number of friends at earthfaves. This is important, as the more friends you have, the more earthfaves they have, the more and better location recommendations you can get. So invite your friends!
4. Your discovery rank score – the points you got so far for adding earthfaves and for people that earthfave them. You get 10 points for adding an earthfave, 20 points if someone earthfaves them and 10 if you earthfave another users’ earthfave. You start as “Freshmanâ€. With 1000 points you become “Pearldiverâ€, with 5000 “Connoisseur†and with 10000 “(Wo)Man of the Worldâ€! So adding earthfaves and finding people who like them increases your reputation in the network a lot!
5. “Recommendation rankâ€â„¢ results: if you are logged in and you search for locations, you get results filtered along your personal trust levels. This way, we make it easier for you to always find the best and most trusted results first. Your own earthfaves appear on top, followed by those of your friends, those of your friends of friends and then those of other earthfavers.
6. Messaging: if someone wants to become your friend or if somebody has earthfaved one of your earthfaves, we send you notification mails so that you quickly can reply to the other users actions.
7. Mapping: simply by copying and pasting code just like at youtube, you can now add your map with your earthfaves to your blog or any other website. This helps you to make more new friends quicker and, for sure, you can show the great places you know much more easily to your friends and readers. You find the link on your user home page.
We plan a lot more for 2009: especially we want to improve the search and the adding functionality (please always search first if you want to add new earthfaves
. We also want you to say about earthfaves “I love this placeâ€, so keep us posted with your ideas and the bugs you find at info@earthfaves.com.
We wish you and your families a great year 2009!
Happy discovering & recommending!
Your earthfaves team:



