Nestoria Blog

Not infrequently people ask me what we work on here at Nestoria. After all, the site seems to work well, so what more can there be to do? I usually just smile and change the subject.

The truth is we do try to take a “less is more” approach, but there are still far more ideas than time to implement them (more on some of the little tweaks we have implemented recently in our next Nestoria Rank update - soon I promise).

Nevertheless, one thing we do invest time on is trying to stay up to date with what’s happening out there on that great big interweb. This week, just when we thought we had seen everything in online property we came across the odd/delightful trend of “interior design meets web2.0″ websites.

Check out these sites:

• Rate my Room - A US based site that allows users to comment on the interior design work of others.
• The delightfully unpretentious Normal Room - a site that lets users share pictures of “normal” rooms. (it seems they have algorithms to detect anything even slightly abnormal).
• shelterrific - the beginnings of a room porn portal.

Amazing, a whole herd of great sites that just came out of nowhere. It just shows, life moves pretty fast on the internet. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.

After seeing all this we debated whether we should immediately start work on a VOIP-powered, video, p2p, microformated long-tail of UGC, social network (login via openID!), with possible upgrade path to a premium service. Then it got late and it was time to head to the pub, so we decided to keep it simple and just be a search engine.

Happy property searching.