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A New Year’s Resolution: New Nulaz Release

Alex — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:59:48 +0000

Today we will fulfill one of our New Year’s resolutions (signing in the gym will take longer): publish the latest Nulaz Release (version 0.5).

We have made an extra effort last Christmas to make it ready for the beginning of 2010, to start the year with great news. Lately we have seen a huge rise of downloads and user activity in Nulaz, and we really want to reward you with new features and improvements.

So, let’s go to the interesting part: what’s new?

Improved general look&feel on the application.
Higher performance and lower battery consumption.
Merging of multiple location information sources into one profile, so we don’t have 5 entries of one restaurant, but we have 5 separate descriptions for this profile, each coming from another content partner.
Addition of events to locations: you can see a calendar of upcoming events for each location
Integration of Nulaz locations and external feed items. Now you upload pictures to all locations, and provide additional info!
Added fancy tab system to the profiles of locations.
Full touch support for new phones, as the Sony Ericsson Satio
The settings section has been reorganized in a better way.
Better user’s location algorithm. More accurate now!
Improved the filter for external feeds and locations.
Better integration with social networks (as Facebook, Twitter, Hyves…). Update your mood anywhere and have updated all your profiles!
Improved the search through people and locations. Now is faster and more accurate.

We have already applied it to the main stores, but unfortunately, they take their time to approve the updates. So, in case you can’t wait, just go with your phone to www.nulaz.net and get it immediately!

And to conclude, we really, really want to thank you. All the feedback we have got recently and all the activity we have noticed in Nulaz make us feel not only happy, but even more motivated to keep improving it for your needs so you enjoy.

Here you have some screenshots of this new release:

New Website Live….again

Michiel Munneke — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:54:34 +0000

We are pumping out new websites these days like it’s out of fashion. Basically we shuffled the layout around a bit, and added some features:

We’ve put the menubar on the top for better navigation, and because we want it the same as the iphone and mobile website

We’ve added the recent activity stream

We showing you items all across the map, instead of just the items around you, and we cluster them if you zoom out

We’ve added LOKI and GEODE wifi localisation

We created a step-by-step profile and location builder

We put more information around the map, so you know what you are seeing; a legend, people and places nearby, quickjump to locations and people, the ability to switch off/on different layers

and much more….check it out!

We still have to include the trips, but that’s coming back soon

Nulaz 0.24: CellID, Avatars, and much more…

Michiel Munneke — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:12:15 +0000

As some of our users that ran the 0.23 version might have noticed, we have done an update (and firstly used our update method). There is a reason why some devices have had the 0.24 version already a month ago, and why some only got a new version about a week ago, and why BlackBerry users still haven’t got it. It has to do with our testphones getting stolen and replacing them took some time.

OK, so what’s in it?

It’s faster. It doesn’t block the interface on network traffic anymore, which is most noticeable on startup.
It’s got profile pictures for people and places (only uploadable via web or mobile web, still).
It’s got improved GPS placing on the map, and Cell ID localisation for those devices that support CellID from Java (Sony Ericsson and Blackberry)
It’s got improved battery life and data usage. Because we make more efficient use of internet connections and GPS updates, we have improved the battery drainage and data traffic (for those of you who still not have a flat fee, you fools).
It’s got a lot of other fine tuning under the hood that would bore the hell out of all of you reading this, so drop by for a beer on Friday afternoons and talk to any one of our developers to hear all about it.

New Office

Michiel Munneke — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:01:43 +0000

Last Friday, we have moved to the Plantage Middenlaan 31. We are fully installed now, and are glad to have everything up and running again. We have a nice Kindergarten next to us, and cafe Koosje has a team of new frequents….feel free to drop by if you are in the neighborhood; office warmings are held on friday afternoons.

New Site! (yes, again!)

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:48:40 +0000

The last weeks we have been working hard on the Dancevalley thing (those subscribed should have gotten the application today. If you weren’t on the list yet, add your number in the previous post).
But that is not the only thing that kept us busy! Some things have been on our todo list for ages, and today have been fulfilled by the launch of our new site!
Some of the features:

Public Map. If you quickly want to look up something, you no longer need to login, but you can ‘taste’ Nulaz without an account.
Public profiles. It’s now possible to browse Nulaz without logging in (but stuff that requires edits etc, still needs your login).
Cleaner design
More in line with our phone client
Easier access to search
Completely language independent: Although we currently only have a English version, other languages will follow soon.
(and, for the geeks, a completely new codebase! All brand new shiny rust-free code!).

We still have a lot of features up our sleeve, the first of which we hope to release next week. For now have fun with the new site, and if you find any bugs, please let us know!

So, go check it our on http://www.nulaz.com/