Alive and Kicking
Posted by Ian Holsman
Just returned from a great week in Tel-Aviv (sadly, my bags are still in De-Gaullle 
), where me and a 'small' group of 11 people overcame the Relegence office in Tel-Aviv. So if you think I've been quiet last week thats why.
One of the most memorable parts was seeing a Irishman have a drink in a Irish pub, which is unheard of. I think we have a photo to proove it. It helped that it was right across the street from the hotel, and it closed @2am, when the others closed at 11pm.
On the business side, I think having these multi-office meetings are great, as you hardly get to see the people on the other end of the mailing list/conf call. Both sides now have a greater appreciation of what each other can do, and a couple of interesting uses of relegence's technologies were dreamed up that wouldn't have been possible without having the experts from both sides being in the same room.
Some of the interesting things that we heard this week:
Yahoo's Geo-location ID (WOEID) - http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/ is an amazing thing that we will be looking at using if we can.
AOL's money and finance channel (http://finance.aol.com/quotes/time-warner-inc/twx/nys) is now the #1 one ranked by comscore. Thanks to Relegence it has HUGE return visits and page views it's related news widget gave!