Three years of Nestoria UK!

Published by Ed on June 23, 2009 in about us. 1 Comment

Fellow Nestordelphians!

Many thanks for all your cards and presents. We’ve been overwhelmed here at the new Nestoria HQ with well wishes from our blog readers as we approach a momentous date: the three year anniversary of the launch of Nestoria.

It was a different, much simpler time back then when Ahmed’s first post (that’s right - there was electronic communication pre-twitter) laid out our goal:

We aim to provide you with the most relevant property listings, contained within an incredibly easy to use, feature packed interface!

And that’s the model we’ve stayed true to. I smile when I think of how we started out. We used to run the entire site, which by the way only had listings for London (but then again, as I’ve always said, it’s your own fault if you venture outside zone 2) on a used Commodore 64 that we had rigged together to run via a hand crank (we couldn’t afford electricity). Loading the data via punchcards led to no end of vicious paper cuts (seriously, how can a wound so small hurt so much?), and our office was an old army tent strung up in Hyde Park.

Well things have moved on, we now offer Nestoria in four countries (you can now search for Wohnungen in Hamburg, casas en alquiler en Sevilla, and immobili in vendita a Livorno on Nestoria), we’ve earned the trust of many partners, and we’re very proud of having helped thousands of people find their next home simply and easily.

Still though, if you look at our homepage, it’s tempting to say nothing has changed. But that’s the nature of the search engine game - the focus remains on continual fine tuning (like our recent work on deduplication) rather than dramatic new changes. And rest assured that’s the model we’ll continue to pursue going forward.

Still we do manage to find time for occasional tinkering with some radical (radical in the sense of a Californian surfer describing something cool) new ideas. If you haven’t yet, please stop by Lokku Labs where we often try out new ideas (we’re hoping for a new announcement later this week) and new technologies. Please let us know what you’d like to see from Nestoria in the coming years. As always, we welcome your feedback.

At this point it’s fitting to thank all the partners who believed in us, the open-source communities on whom we’ve depended so much, and most of all the loyal users who always push us to be better. The only person I’d like to explicitly anti-thank is the asshole landlord who kicked us out of our Soho office where we were just down the street from the burrito shop. Shame on you!

The Lokku team - May 2009
Lokku team members at our recent office warming party

On a personal note, I’m extermely grateful to all the team members past and present who made it happen. The path ahead remains an uphill climb, but we’ve come a long way! Thank you. I look forward to a great future.

This Friday evening some of us will be heading out to the pub to celebrate, if you’re up for joining us, we’ll let you know where we’re heading on the old Nestoria twitter feed (that’s right, we’re hip, we’re modern). We’ll also be using the event as a chance to welcome this year’s crop of summer interns to the team. Speaking of which we’re always on the lookout for talented new team members. Please get in touch if you match the position description and would like to join us.

BTW - For those of you hungry for more Nestoria information, pls check out the recent interview we did with Renthusiast.

Speaking at PropertyPortalWatch Workshop - San Francisco - August 4th

Published by Ed on June 22, 2009 in events. 1 Comment

Fellow Nestorlinians

it’s my pleasure to announce that I and Javier (fellow Lokku founder) will be speaking at this August’s Property Portal Watch Workshop in San Francisco.


Bay Bridge, San Francisco skyline

For those that don’t know, over the last year Property Portal Watch has become the leading global forum to comment on the online property industry. If you read our blog, you should be be reading PPW. More importantly, if you are a senior decision maker at a property portal you should probably be attending the workshop.

Our one hour session will not be about Nestoria, but rather about the common challenges we see property portals across all markets facing and the innovative solutions we see different players adopting. While every market has it’s peculiarities, it is remarkable how similar the difficulties are for all players, particularly those that come from an offline/print heritage. If you have any thoughts on what you’d like to hear, or questions you’d like addressed, please let us know. I’m looking forward to a heated question and answer exchange as well. We’ll post the presentation here afterwards.

The workshop is of course just the first day of the Inman Conference. We attended the first PPW workshop at January’s NYC Inman conference and last summer’s Inman Connect in San Francisco. Both were great events, with a diverse group of speakers and vendors from the real estate and technology industries. Most of all it’s a good chance to get above the day to day grind and reflect on the broader trends and new technologies effecting the industry.

We hope to see you there!

Related posts: PPW founder Simon Baker discussed his motivations for the site and the community around it in an interview with us last autumn.

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Nestoria Interview - Christopher Parker - Loughborough University

Published by Ed on June 17, 2009 in interviews. 2 Comments

With this year’s State of the Map conference rapidly approaching, for this month’s Nestoria Interview we once again turn our attention to rapidly growing community mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM).

Specifically we have the pleasure of interviewing Christopher J. Parker, who will be speaking at this year’s SOTM.

Currently studying a PhD in human interaction at Loughborough University, focusing on the phenomenon of “Volunteered Geographic Information” (VGI). In July 2009, he will be presenting his current findings on “Value and How it Changes Everything” at State of the Map 2009.

Christopher, thanks for talking with us.

1. Please tell us about your current work related to OSM.

As said in my bio, I am researching Volunteered Geographic Information from a human factors point of view. Broadly speaking, this is where people share their information (photos, videos, locations etc) with the world by uploading it to the web and adding a geotag. The output from this can be as simple as displaying where everyone’s photos were taken on a map (as with sites such as Panorama and Flickr), or the map itself (as with OpenStreetMap) where the volunteered information is the collection of ‘nodes’ and polylines which make up the map you see. As anyone who follows social media will know, the idea of this is very recent, with the term VGI only being coined in 2007 by Prof. Michael Goodchild in 2007 (Citizens as Sensors: The world of Volunteered Geography).

So what does this mean? There are a lot of questions are floating around at the moment to do with how we perceive this Volunteered Information. Aside from the technical quality (a very contentious issue), how do we as users perceive volunteered information differently from professional information. How and why do we value a volunteered source higher than a technically more complete professional source of higher quality. What is even more interesting is the idea of an emotional interface (Roush, 2007, Second Earth. Technology Review. 2007. July/ August. P39-48) where the geospatial element (the map the data is overlaid onto) is just a medium through which to explorer the emotions generated by content such as holiday photos.

OpenStreetMap, being a system almost entirely created, developed and edited by volunteers is an excellent example of Volunteered Geographic Information. Unlike allot of websites which may only cover one area of VGI (such as geotagging where a YouTube video was shot), OpenStreetMap provides a highly diverse range of features, so one may expect it to be a good representation of the human factors which run through the VGI community.

Because of this, I am interviewing a wide range of OpenStreetMap users, contributors and developers about their experiences and feelings related to use of OpenStreetMap and why they see it differently to other map sources. The research is geared away from technical issues and OSM specific topics, and other VGI sources such as Google Map Maker are being considered as well. The result of this should be to provide some unique insight into the general perception of the VGI sources, applicable to a wide range of VGI uses and applications; not just one very fast developing website.

2. What made you think this was an interesting topic? And what has the response from the OSM community been?

When I started my PhD at Loughborough I was asked to research anything I could link to the human factors of travel. After reading around the subject, the idea of people using GPS devices to ‘map’ their environment kept cropping up time and time again. I wanted to find a topic that was pretty sparse in research to date, was cutting edge and had allot of potential to move forward. The topic of Volunteered Geographic Information was probably the best find from this period as (at the time) it was only just over a year old in definition and all the research seemed to be either from a GIS technical slant or that of future speculation. I have always had an interest in technology with my background in product design, so reading about how this technology could potentially revolutionise the perception of our environment really got a fire lit under me. I suppose what sold it to me though was the lack of human factors research. One can see a new technology in many ways, but unless one understands why we perceive it the way we do, or why it diffuses the way it does, then it is hard to fully utilise it. I wanted to be able to provide that academic background that would give guidelines to developers and users so their products and services using this volunteered information would actually mean something to the consumers.

To date, the reaction from the OSM community I have been studying has been very positive. At the end of my interviews I always ask if they have any questions, and invariably it is “what have you found in your research”, followed by at least ten minutes of me explaining the findings of user value to date. I think possibly because those involved in OSM tend to be flying the flag for Open Source software the people I speak to are very happy to share their ideas and thoughts with the world.

3. It’s often said that only 1% of internet users are content creators, the rest are content consumers. Does your research support this theory, or do you think more and more users will become content creators as familiarity grows and tools become better?

Whether this statement is true or not is beyond my scope of research. Certainly there have been studies into this which show the producers in the traditional sense are outweighed by the consumers. However the maths seems to make perfect sense in that if you look at Second Life, which as of now (16:00, 17/06/2009, Second Life interface) has had 1,400,042 active users in the last 60 days. If only 1% of users produce content (in this case 3D objects) then you have 14,000 developers producing an interactive virtual world while receiving no income from Linden Lab who run the project. Now, how much of that is true is not for me to say, but even a 0.5% developer community would still be a very large contributor base.

I suppose the problem with this analogy is that it is based on the traditional view of the contributor as one who uses a relatively high degree of technical knowledge to produce something the average person either doesn’t want to or doesn’t know how; as in the case of Second Life objects. But here is the spanner in the works, what does content mean? I suppose this could be a whole area of research in itself, but one of the most exciting developments of the last few years has been the idea of putting a GPS tracker in your mobile devices. With user friendly software a child could upload their journey path from their phone to a map system, which in turn could work out the road network. Take a photograph of anything in the world, upload it to a site such as Flickr and the GPS tag that goes with it could place it on a map for anyone to explore. All of this is content in the VGI sense, where as Clay Shirky stated in his recent talk at TED (May 2009) “every time a new consumer joins this media landscape a new joins as well because the same equipment, phone, computers lets you consume and produce”. If we just geotag our information, potentially any information, it is VGI.

From everything I have read and researched to date I can only state with reasonable comfort that what we are experiencing today is just the tip of the iceberg. I would strongly encourage everyone who reads this interview to watch the 17 minute lecture by Clay Shirky linked above to get a much better case put forward than I can, but when more data and information is volunteered by normal people, the data we use may not be a representation of activity, but the activity itself.

I will close this point with a thought for everyone who has used Twitter (the 140 character long micro blog service). Type the name of any political party into search.twitter.com and you will see the personal and emotional feelings for that party come up across your screen not from any form of propaganda or media filter, but through the simple thoughts of you and me. Now consider what we would have if each micro blog post (or Tweet) came with the geo location of the writer. A map could be created of emotions towards political parties, or anything else you care to name, through the country and the world. I suppose this could be referred to Volunteered Emotional Geospatial Information (VEGI), and it may or may not follow the same human interaction issues as traditional VGI (If VGI can yet be referred to as traditional). However you could chose to look at this analogy, and the blurred role of the user and the, and in the words of Matrix not yet know “how far this rabbit hole really goes”.

4. Do you think your research findings will be applicable to all user generated content services (things like YouTube and Facebook)?

At this stage of my research I honestly do not know. My focus is at the moment on users either creating maps or creating locations such as coffee shops or other amenities on maps. Even to ask what I have found out in this area and how it applies to other forms of map mashups would be too presumptuous. However, certain trends are starting to emerge which suggest the user perception of volunteer generated maps is not quite what we would have thought when we first looked at it. My presentation at State of the Map 2009 (which will also be on my research blog) should be the unveiling of my first analysis of this data.

I think it is highly unlikely that users would view the volunteered content of a map generated with the help of a GPS device as the same as the video posted on YouTube by the disgruntled employee of some Multinational Organisation. Yet at the same time both forms of media have similar traits in the form of geo-tagging the information, openness and volunteer generated, so I would imagine there may be some similarities.

I think social media and its potential link with VGI is a very interesting topic and while, as I said before, my research may not directly influence the direction of Twitter, Facebook or other future sites, but it may influence the apps which run on them. I find it is better to see Facebook as a social operating system which allows apps to run, which in turn allow social networks to thrive; similar in a way to Microsoft Windows running Outlook which allows emails to be sent.

5. Based on your research what advice do you have for start-ups like Nestoria who are keen to benefit from the technological advancements and enthusiasm of the OSM community?

Ultimately, I feel it is a little early to provide any concrete advice from my research as it is still early days and the direction and scope of my findings may change dramatically over the next couple of years. That said, there are a few pieces of research which may prove very relevant.

Firstly I would say embrace the OSM community, but also look outside. There are probably more social networks existing than you can name, and they never stay the same in their constant and rapid evolution. I’m sure everyone can remember the first time they heard that strange word ‘Google’ uttered while they searched the information superhighway with the worlds #1 search engine of the day: Yahoo!

As a more direct take from my research, understand why and how your user base values your product or your competitors’ product. These are your true unique selling points (and their unique selling points) as they engage at the emotional level of gains over sacrifices. Every user is different and will see things in a different way, and technological superiority doesn’t always mean higher value. Sometimes why we value something so highly is a mystery to ourselves; so this is an elusive quest, but value is the key to satisfaction. Even if there is a product we may not like on an ethical level (possibly Microsoft?), we still value it higher than the competitor we ethically prefer because of X, Y and Z (possibly Linux?). So understanding why the value is what it is allows you to tailor your product or service to capitalise on those “warm fuzzy feelings” your product gives your uses, increasing satisfaction and hopefully social diffusion. How relevant my findings on user perception of the value of Volunteered Geographic Information is unknown, but I would advise any developer or mashup creating working from OSM data to take these findings into consideration when deciding how to progress in a world where the consumers and increasingly becoming the producers.

Thanks Christopher. We look forward to learning more at SOTM. For those interested, you can follow Christopher’s research on his blog and on twitter @Kyral210.

If this interview has whetted your appetite for all things SOTM you may be interest in our coverage of SOTM 2008.

past Nestoria interviews: Ryan Notz, Lance Johnson, and Peter Le Masurier.

Browser wars at Nestoria (Take 4)

Published by Ahmed on June 12, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Fellow Nestoraks,

It’s been almost a whole year since we made ourselves a nice cup of tea, set aside one or two hobnobs and delved into Nestoria’s browser usage statistics. (More in this series: 1 2 3)

It’s that time again, so put on the kettle and we’ll begin.

Why?
If you’ve read any of these posts before, you’ll know that we like to keep an eye on what browsers our users prefer. This is so that we can make sure that Nestoria runs as smooth as possible on all those that are popular.

General Trends
General Browsers

Internet Explorer’s (IE) share continues to fall, with a 3% drop from roughly this time last year, down to 77%. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s hard not to wonder how the recent rulings and allegations by the European Commission’s competition authorities and Microsoft’s response regarding bundling of IE will affect future figures.

Yet again, Firefox has increased its share by 2%, now representing 16% of our users.

Safari has managed to increase it’s 4% share and is now up to 5%. The recent release of Safari 4 might mean another small increase in this share is to come.

Version Trends
Internet ExplorerFirefox

IE6 still refuses to go away. As before, I expect this is related to the continuing prominence of Windows XP/IE6 in businesses. It remains to be seen whether the switch to IE8 and Windows 7 will make any impact on this statistic. It seems quite clear from the figures that users are not currently migrating from IE6 to IE8, but instead are moving from IE7 to IE8 - perhaps just those at the forefront moving at the moment, with a 10% drop in IE7 users reflecting the 10% increase in IE8.

Things couldn’t be more different from our last post as far as Firefox goes - uptake of the new (3.x) version being nearly complete (from 2.x). A stark contrast to the IE position.

Playing catchup
FF Safari Chrome

Usage of Firefox, Safari and Chrome seem to be increasing at the same rate. This must mean that all are taking share from IE, whilst seemingly not affecting each other’s uptake. We’ll keep an eye on this to see if any one browser’s uptake manages to pull ahead.

Mobile usage
Mobile

Although we don’t specifically target mobile users as such, we do get the odd couple who make use of the site, and those users are increasing in number. In fact, iPhone/iPod usage is about to reach and I suspect, overtake that of Linux (on Nestoria at least ;). Meanwhile, Symbian (a mobile OS) usage is also increasing. Interesting times. The given statistics do not currently reflect ‘netbook’ usage, but mobile usage on the increase. Something we will be keeping a keen eye on.

We hope you enjoyed this little meander through some of our statistics. Please do let us know how everything’s working for you, especially if you have any particular issues.


Nestoria Spain turns two!

Published by Ed on June 4, 2009 in about us. 2 Comments

Fellow Nestorites!

hard to believe how quickly the time flies, but it’s been two years since we launched our beloved Nestoria España! Feliz cumpleaños!

Nestoria España

Millions of successful “búsqueda de pisos y casas” later, things are going well. A big gracias to all of our partners, especially those that believed in us at the beginning, and most of all to our users! But we also know we still have a long, long way to go, so please keep your feedback coming.

Meanwhile, the Spanish team celebrated by adding a new partnership, and speaking at SMX, but will hopefully find time for a well deserved glass of rioja (or pitcher of sangria) as well.

For anyone interested in following the progress a bit more closely please subscribe to our Spanish blog.

Speaking at SMX Madrid

Published by Ed on June 2, 2009 in events. 0 Comments

Fellow Nestorillas,

this Thursday our very own Javier Etxebeste will be part of a panel discussing the impact and evolution of vertical search engines at Madrid’s Search Marketing Expo (SMX). The lineup looks great, with everyone from the heavyweights of the search world like Google, to representatives of and former senior employees of other vertical engines like Kayak and 123People, and of course many representative from the worlds of SEO and SEM.

SMX

If you are there please say hello to Javier!

Where2.0 Recap

Published by Ed on May 30, 2009 in events. 0 Comments

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Chris Osborne of #Geomob fame, who last week attended Where2.0, the leading global neogeo conference.

Fellow Nestofari,

As the passing geo-hobo at Nestoria, I was duly dispatched with a shiny dollar to cover the geo-fest that is Where2.0. For those not in the know, Where2.0 is all about the ge-o. Or maps. On computers.

Mapping is a big deal for us, we’ll be presenting again at this year’s State Of The Map conference in Amsterdam, and you may have noticed that all our listings are, yes, on a map! Unfortunately, we weren’t presenting at Where2.0 this year but that gave me more time to soak up the geo-goodness, ruthlessly self-promote and blag as much free food and drink as a geo-hobo can.

As always at these events, there is one act that steals the show, and this year it was a last-minute addition to the lineup. Ludwig from C3 Technologies had been wowing the people in the corridors with incredible 3D models of cities. Not only do they look realistic, but they are automatically generated, utilising technology from missiles. With just a few hours left to go on the final day, C3 were given a slot and took the crowd’s breath away:

Michal Migurski, of map design gurus Stamen, always has something interesting to say and gave not one, but two great presentations. First a crash-course in building your own custom rendered maps with Cascadenik, not for the faint-hearted but a great way of earning your geo-stripes. And ‘Flea Market Mapping‘, an intriguing presentation about using some old school paper maps in thought provoking ways.

Our old chums Yahoo! launced their exciting new PlaceMaker product to universal acclaim. Its a little difficult to do it justice in a small blog article so I thoroughly recommend you watch the video below. Essentially, its a way to find location information about any kind of content; throw some news articles at it and it will tell you where they are written about. For the more techy of you, that means you can get geographic metadata, and WOEID, from structured and unstructured data and start to do some very interesting things with it. Importantly, its contributing to the open data geoweb that is currently evolving.

Speaking of open data, we also had OpenStreetMap’s Steve Coast telling us all about ‘Ubiquitous Geocontext‘. Or, in the future everything will know where everything else is and act accordingly. It was a refreshing change from some of the talks, focusing on the possibilities for the future. A far fetched, but thought provoking view of the geo-tastic future that awaits.

In sum, innovation in the online geography sector is alive and well!

Chris blogs regularly at cloudsourced and is @osbornec on Twitter. The next #Geomob event takes place on June 30th in central London.

Nestoria Interview - Ryan Notz - MyBuilder.com

Published by Ed on May 21, 2009 in interviews. 2 Comments

This month we once again dive into the London start-up scene with an interview of Ryan Notz, founder and CEO of MyBuilder.com, a site to help homeowners find and instruct builders. Prior to founding MyBuilder, Ryan worked as a stonemason, roofer, teacher and artist.

Ryan, thanks for chatting with us!

1. Tell us about MyBuilder. What problem does the service solve?

It solves two problems really: the difficulty homeowners have in finding good builders; and the problems builders have in getting the right kind of work, when they need it. I was going through a dry spell with my stonemasonry, while trying to support my wife and two kids. That kind of pressure led to a lot of frustration, and I recognised a real problem in the industry. But for some reason, rather than seeking more security in a job, I went the other direction and started a web business. There must have been something wrong with my head…

Anyway, the idea was to create a website where builders could create a profile that describes their skills and experience - and most importantly, have feedback history from homeowners who have hired them through the site. Homeowners in turn would be able to choose who to hire by comparing all this information, knowing that after their project is done, they can add to the builder’s reputation in a positive or negative way. There is an element of accountability with a system like that which I really liked.

2. Recently it seems all the hype is about pure online start-ups like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace. Your business goes in the other direction, it’s very much a tool for simplifying offline transactions. What are some of the challenges to introducing new ways of working to offline trades.

That’s an interesting question. I very much think of MyBuilder as a technology company, though I can see how someone else could take a different view. We are trying to solve a real world problem, that’s for sure. Bricks and mortar make up the real world, but so do people - and this is the most important element. We’re trying to help bring people together who want to interact with each other, through a fantastic communication tool: the web. Facebook and Twitter are no different, actually.

In terms of convincing builders that they should be looking online to find work, I don’t think that’s our job. We provide a tool for those who want to use it, and if it’s useful enough, that side of things takes care of itself. We’ve seen people learning how to use the web for the first time because they’ve been told they can get work through MyBuilder.com. The need to earn a living is so powerful, you can’t imagine what some people will do. And I can really relate to that.

3. Again and again I hear people talk about how much easier life is for start-ups in the US. Yet, you, an American, chose to start your business here in the UK. Why? And how have you found the business atmosphere versus the US?

Well, to be fair, I was already living here when I started the business. My wife is English and my kids were all born here. But I could have easily moved to California or Austin, and my wife would happily have gone along. We even lived in Philadelphia for a while after having our first child. I guess I just fell in love with Britain and saw the need for MyBuilder here. It is a problem that is particularly acute in the UK. The business climate has certainly worked for me, I have no complaints. More importantly perhaps, was my decision to move from Bristol to London. I love Bristol, but that made all the difference. From fund-raising to building a team to meeting with potential partners, it’s so much easier in London. I think of other tech hotspots like Silicon Valley in the same way: the critical mass of people just makes it easier.

4. MyBuilder has wracked up some impressive awards and great press coverage. What’s the secret? What advice do you have for others contemplating starting their own business - especially those folks looking to bring new technology to bear on traditional industries?

I’m tempted to say that there’s no special sauce. But maybe there is, and it’s just a combination of things. For me, it started by addressing a real problem and having a desire to make the world a better place. It may sound cheesy, but I think that’s important. It’s also about what you want to do with your life and finding a path that’s fulfilling. If starting a business becomes the right thing to do, then you have to do it and rise to the challenge. It’s certainly not easy. It takes a lot of courage and persistence and hard work. You give a lot of blood, sweat and tears along the way. If you’re not doing the right thing for yourself, you won’t last. If you are doing the right thing, people around you will recognise that.

Ryan, thanks for the revealing chat. I can confirm that starting a company takes persistence and hard work. As we like to say, it’s a roller coaster - hang on and enjoy the ride. Keep up the great work!

For any readers out there thinking about having some work done, check out MyBuilder.com

past Nestoria interviews: Lance Johnson, Peter Le Masurier, Henry Yates.

We need help

Published by Ed on May 14, 2009 in about us and hiring. 2 Comments

Fellow Nestorländer,

as happens every so often, we’re unfortunately losing a member of our team. Rahel, who has lead the charge for us at Nestoria Deutschland for the last nine months, is leaving London (Mark my words you’ll miss this expensive rat hole!) to head back to Berlin and continue her studies (as if fancy book learnin’ ever got anyone anywhere).

Well, as we’ve always said here at Lokku, one person’s chance to move to an amazing city and gain education is another person’s chance to dive head first into the fun of vertical search. While it will be hard to replace her, the show must go on. If you think you’ve got what it takes - and please check the official position description before you scream “Oh God yes, I’m perfect for this job” - dann freuen wir uns auf deiner Berwerbung, as they say.

You can read Rahel’s own take on the fun that is Lokku over at our German blog.

Our new home! We’ve moved to Clerkenwell

Published by Ed on May 8, 2009 in about us. 2 Comments

Fellow Nestorwellians,

as regular readers will recall, for some time now we’ve been searching for a new headquarters for our vertical search project. I’m pleased to announce that our search has come to an end, and, after several stops and starts of the sort that give the property industry its well deserved reputation for fun, we are now based in scenic Clerkenwell! For our fans a few photos below:

The work goes on
As we prepare for the move the work of efficient property search continues.


Farewell old office!


Our new home

The new office gives us a bit of breathing room, as we continue our international growth. In many ways, this move signifies our path to becoming a real company with (ta da!) an actual meeting room. Rest assured though we haven’t lost our start-up spirit. We still have no windows and the meeting room has a huge water boiler in it.

For those that wish to join us, some members of the Nestoria team will be hoisting a celebratory pint at the nearby Jerusalem Tavern tonight. Please drop by.

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