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Important Milestone Release!

Pierre and myself are very happy to announce an important update of the Frimr.com website.

- Frimr.com has been migrated to Microsoft Ajax Beta 2.
So, if you want to have a look at our source code, you'll read up to date code.

- You can now try Frimr.com for free, without creating an account. We have implemented a simple "Anonymous login" feature that allows one to quickly calculate his score. Then after, if the user wants to register, his first name, lastname and web site address are pre-populated in the registration form.

- Setting your long/lat coordinates is now available to everyone.
In the previous version, we used a third party service called GeoNames using REST through client script and using Bridges. Unfortunately, this service didn't support every country. So our friends from Canada couldn't easily set their coordinates using this service. We have now moved to the Virtual Earth Component, which allows a user for searching his address and then refine the position visually. The Virtual Earth Component is displayed in a Modal Popup Control Tookit.

- When you hover over a web link on someone's public profile, we will display a thumbnail preview of this web site. You'll like this one!

- We have moved from the Virtual Earth Control v4 from v3. Frimr.com can now display 3D maps! By the way, we now use custom pushpins for displaying the members rather than default red pins that are created when you use a GeoRSS feed. It's a little bit more work (hum hum) but it's worth it. Next step will be to display a user's picture in the label associated to his pushpin.

Go and give it a try. And as usual, we'll be happy to get your feedbacks :)

Written by clauer on 11/14/2006 12:00:00 AM. (#)

Is this a real blog now?

Yes. We've finally made this page a real blog engine, with a RSS feed and dates, links, etc...

Written by clauer on 10/18/2006 12:00:00 AM. (#)

Frimr.com reaches M0!

Demain, Mardi 10 Octobre, nous animerons l'après-midi "Mini Mix" à Toulouse. Ce sera la quatrième date notre Tour de France, juste à la moitié des 7 dates. Pas encore inscrit ? C'est par ici.

C'est aussi l'occasion pour nous de présenter de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Nous avons en effet complètement intégré la géolocalisation de vos contacts, montrée en maquette à la session précédente à Nantes. Pour en bénéficier, vous devrez renseigner votre code postal et pays, puis cliquer sur le bouton qui effectue la mise à jour de vos coordonnées Longitude et Latitude via GeoNames.org invoqué directement en client-side via REST. Cool ;)

Frimr.com mérite encore un peu plus le qualificatif d'application "mash-up"...

Written by clauer on 10/9/2006 12:00:00 AM. (#)

Y'a du nouveau

Comme promis hier à nos amis Lillois, le gadget Frimr pour votre page live.com est maintenant complètement fonctionnel et réellement utilisable. Pour l'ajouter à votre page d'accueil Live.com : rendez-vous sur la page "Publicize" et cliquer sur le lien en bas de page.

Written by clauer on 9/27/2006 12:00:00 AM. (#)

First entry... "Hello, Web 2.0 World!"

Voilà, le site est maintenant en ligne. OK, il reste encore quelques petits bugs par ci par là, mais il ne faut pas oublier que c'est une application de démonstration, d'une part, et que d'autre part, on est en "Bêta Perpétuelle" :)

Written by clauer on 9/24/2006 12:00:00 AM. (#)