Geojoey's Weblog

Wondering what we're up to?

Yes yes, we've gone a bit quiet. We're busily toiling away at the keyboard and this January we will be taking Geojoey in a new direction. Forget incremental feature additions. It's all about you.

Our current ETA is middle to late next month.

Have an excellent Christmas and check back with us soon.

Mark & Kerry - Geojoey's Founders.

Geojoey V3.0 released

We released Version 3.0 of Geojoey this afternoon with a new look, new UI design and new features.

Firstly I'd like to thank Nick Yee, a Ph.D. student at Stanford, for the awesome Earth icon we've put next to our Landmark and Address Search. Nick created this image using two very high resolution panoramic Earth images from NASA's Blue Marble project, one taken during the day and the other at night. He rendered both images into a sphere shape and then composited the images. The result is a beautiful image of Earth during the day with the lights of populated areas still visible. You can read more about how this image was made and get a high resolution version on Nick's site.

Here are some of the changes and new features in this version of Geojoey:

• A new cleaner user interface to highlight what's important and move the lesser used features out of your way.
• A new logo and slogan design.
• We now support anonymous voting. We're going to try it out for a while and as long as it's not abused, we'll keep it in place
• We've streamlined the registration process.
• Fixed a bug that would cause lines drawn on the map to hang around after you've added your experience.
• The default order of experiences when you arrive at the site is now most popular
• When you add an experience now you need to be zoomed in beyond level 4. We've also improved the explanation of how to add an experience and position your experience icon.

This release also includes several bug fixes, many of which were reported by our users. Thanks to all who sent in a bug report!

If you have any comments or suggestions about the new look, post them as a comment to this blog entry, or email us at joey@geojoey.com.

Steady as she goes

Is that a new logo on the right? Could that mean a new release is imminent? Well it's Friday night at 1AM and I'm busy coding, so, yes. Lots of new features and fixes, coming soon. In the mean time I leave you in the capable hands of Mr Jack White and the Raconteurs. Have a spectacular weekend!!

Geojoey on Digital Alchemy

Geojoey was mentioned on Digital Alchemy today. Thanks for the detailed coverage and screenshots Alchemist! FYI, all the content on Geojoey comes from real people. We haven't taken anything from Wikipedia. :) We have users in the UK, Australia, South Africa, The USA, Canada and Armenia among others.

Just for fun, here's a map of the top 500 world locations our users originated from during the last 7 days, courtesy of Google Analytics:

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Life rocks when...

...you're coding new features as fast as you can so you can use them yourself.

Don't you hate one line blog entries? Me 2!