I think Xebidy has always been at the forefront of trying to use Web 2.0 elements in our web design to create a better website. We are always looking for different ways to use data from other websites - particularly user generated content - to improve the overal web experience. We however came to ...
Although officially still on holiday it was with interest that I read in the New Zealand Herald yesterday an article about a new Tourism New Zealand initiative called Have Your Say. International visitors can now record a short video blog for free in a mobile TV studio, which is subsequently edited...
Last week we released a new look and feel of the Base Backpackers website and it looks cool....
In the New Zealand herald today an article came out (click here for article on Base Backpackers) about Base Backpackers receiving a "rap" over the knuckles for the slogan "New Zealand's best hostels" in their advertising. According to the article this was in response to a complaint by the Youth Hos...
We recently upgraded the look and feel of the Base Backpackers hostel pages and introduced a feature we had been developing for awhile (those who have seem the Adventure Tours Australia website would have seen it before) - that is, the displaying of images onto the website that sit on Flickr....
We gave our unsolicited opinion on a website and potential strategy the other day and it really got me thinking about the importance of establishing some social currency in today's Web 2.0 sites....
When we developed the functionality to take Hostel World reviews and ratings and display them on the Base website I believed we were working with Hostel World (rather than against them) - after all Base hostels used the Hostel World property management system - and as I said earlier today, we were i...
