Posted in Feedback, Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Aug 9th, 2009
Just wanted to let everyone know we recently launched a new upgrade to Joobili’s Event Upload page.
Here are a few of the new features we added:
Search for Matches: This runs a quick search of the existing Joobili database to prevent uploading duplicate events. It was really frustrating for some of you who spent a lot [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz on Jul 28th, 2009
This one came as a total shock. Every year PC Magazine selects the top 100 websites of the year as voted by their readers and editors. The list is a mix of the most popular sites on the Internet like Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc. and new sites with strong potential like…well, Joobili. It is a [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz on Jul 27th, 2009
Congrats to Joobili member “Dolphin” for winning the Sziget ticket promotion. Dolphin was Joobili’s official promoter of the Puck Fair in Ireland and he recruited a large crew of friends to GoList the event on Joobili. Now he and a friend will be spending a week relaxing and rocking to Lily Allen, Fatboy Slim, Placebo, [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz on Jul 8th, 2009
…or at least that’s what tech blog Read Write Web says in its recent article: 6 Travel Trends for the Weary Wanderer. It’s nice to be included among such a select group of travel websites like Dopplr and others we look up to. It also turns out Joobili is not just a source of travel [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz on Jun 9th, 2009
We just launched a contest to give away two 6-day tickets (300 EUR value) to Sziget Festival, August 12-17. This is one of Europe’s biggest summer festivals with 2009 headliners like The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Placebo, Klaxons, Offspring, Snow Patrol and more. It all takes place on a island in the middle of the Danube [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Travel Trends on Apr 23rd, 2009
I’m back in Budapest now and finally have a minute to share my “illuminations” from the Travolution Summit in London. Clearly I need to take some lessons from Ginny and Mark on writing SEO friendly titles for my blog. Before launching into my highlights I owe a big thanks to Kevin May and his team [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Apr 10th, 2009
We launched a new feature today allowing you to see upcoming events that don’t have a confirmed date yet. A lot of festivals only lock in their dates 4-6 months in advance, but for people who like long-term planning we wanted to at least allow you to see an approximate date based on previous years. [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz on Apr 8th, 2009
Joobili was featured on KillerStartups.com yesterday. As I write this we are 19 votes away from being the top website of the month. Please give us your vote.
We had a great March and April is off to a great start. Thanks for everything and let’s keep this train a movin’.
Posted in Feedback, Joobili Buzz, Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
Wow…where to start. On Wednesday, Joobili was selected one of the winners of Seedcamp’s Warsaw competition. Each of the 20 finalists had 5 minutes to present their startup to a room full of investors and entrepreneurs. The rest of the day was filled with individual sessions where we received incredible feedback about Joobili from an [...]
Posted in Feedback, Joobili Buzz on Feb 13th, 2009
Aside from cruising the Travel Technology Show, I used my time in London to meet with Howzat Media and Index Ventures. Both companies have considerable experience investing in travel start-ups. Joobili is too early stage for these guys, so rather than begging for money I used my time with them to soak up some advice [...]
