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Most popular blogposts of 2008

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

Fellow Nestorfreaks,

allow us to engage in another post of online navel gazing (fear not we’re nearing the end). Today we reflect on our top blog posts of 2008. It’s always interesting in blogging that often topics that seem so important to us, draw less public interest than anticipated, while other topics take on a life of their own. So it’s interesting to look back and see how we did over the year, and see if there are any conclusions to be drawn, that might help us in the coming year. But of course if you have any feedback feel free to let us know directly.

Moving on to the list, the top five by number of visitors, presented in reverse order:

5. It seems the appeal of seeing me in lederhosen at our team summer event was enough to earn spot five on our list.

4. More than a few folks found our innovative launch of single click house buying to be worth reading.

3. Equally innovative (and much more real), our post describing the OpenStreetMap version of Nestoria drew many readers.

2.The launch of our embeddable house price charts earned the second spot on our list.

and the most popular post of 2008 was ….

1. the announcement of our integration of historic house price data on our search result pages.

Good to see the interest in house price data and OpenStreetMap, as we are curently hard at work on a new service (somewhat related to our recent prototype Nestoholic) that will use our house price data and OSM. But more about that in a future post … (and don’t expect many lederhosen pics)

Happy new year to all of you and thanks for reading.

Year in Review – 2008 Nestoria Interview Series

Published by Ed on December 30, 2008 in interviews. Comments

Fellow Nestordelphians,

Today we look back over the course of our interview series in 2008. We’re always on the hunt for interesting folks doing interesting things from whom we can learn, and once a month or so we publish one of our discussions with a thought leader from the realm of online property or technology, in the hopes that we can share a few new insights via the discussion.

This year we’ve tried to find more ways to partner with and learn from academia, and this was reflected in our interview series where we spoke with Alex Singleton and Muki Haklay both of UCL.

We’ve also chatted with some of our key partners like Tim Youngman of Archant, and Spain’s Jesus Encinar. In a twist of coincidence, our first interviewee of the year, Lloyd Sheperd, has moved on on to work at our partner Channel4 where he is now a colleague of fellow Nestoria interviewee Lelia Ferro.

We’ve been inspired by several other small start ups via our chats with Stephan Uhrenbacher of Qype, Ivailo Jordanov of retaggr, and Salim Mitha of Wahanda.

Our continued interest in all things neogeo was evident in our discussion with Gary Gale of Yahoo!, and Tom Steinberg of MySociety and we will certainly have more interviews from this area in the coming months.

Finally we’ve had the pleasure of learning from key industry commentators Simon Baker and Brad Inman.

We hope you’ve enjoyed the interviews, and of course we welcome all suggestions for next year. For those interested in looking back melancholically here’s our summary from 2007.

If you’re keen to learn more about the web and new media scene in Germany, Italy or Spain, and you speak the local language, I invite you to subscribe to our local blogs where we also run regular interviews with thought leaders.