Nestoria turns one year old!

Dearest Nestonauts!

This week is the one year anniversary of the launch of Nestoria in the UK!

Hard to believe it's only been a year. We've come a long way. For those that don't recall when we originally launched, Nestoria had only about 50,000 listings and covered only London. There was no API, no tools for webmasters, a very limited set of local content, you couldn't use the map to search, and our approach to relevancy was in it's infancy.

To celebrate our progress over the last year the Nestoria team decided to take an afternoon off last week and head to the centre of the world: Greenwich and the Prime Meridian. The Nestoria team at the Prime Meridian

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It was a great afternoon. Fun to look back on what we've accomplished (we now have over 800,000 listings in two countries, 100,000's of users each month, and were recently cited by Google as the case study for the use of their maps API) and to focus our minds on the tasks ahead.

We know we still have a long way to go. Which is why we invite all our loyal blog readers and Nestoria users to join us this Thursday evening at 19:00 to discuss our progress and what we could do better at the John Snow pub in Soho. And if you can't join us there we of course invite you to get in touch via the old feedback form.

We hope to see you there!

* Some of you might be wondering why the GPS device records 0.082 degrees west, which is about 100m off. We were worried also. The explanation is that the officially the prime meridian is no longer 'earth bound' or defined by anything on earth. See Wikipedia's explaination (first paragraph in the 'description' explains it). All is well.

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