Posted in Feedback, Site Features on Oct 28th, 2008
On 1 May 1707 the Kingdoms of England (including Wales) and Scotland were formally united. A century later the Kingdom of Ireland passed the Act of Union. The modern ”United Kingdom” was born and with it one of the most confusing country names of all time. Question: does your London friend live in England, Great Britain, or the [...]
Posted in Site Features, Where I'd Rather Be on Oct 22nd, 2008
Right now there are animals of all shapes and sizes gorging themselves on food to fatten up for the lean winter months. I started thinking about my own diet and realized that it doesn’t change much throughout the year with the exception of a few seasonal fruits. But what if there weren’t Tescos in every [...]
Posted in Site Features on Oct 8th, 2008
Some of you received an email today inviting you to join our private beta testing group. If you did not get an invitation and would like to participate let me know. A big thanks to all of you willing to give up some time to help make Joobili cooler.
Posted in Feedback, Travelosophy on Sep 29th, 2008
The funny thing is that for a time I was actually employed as a professional namer. And to answer your questions: 1) yes, that’s a real job 2) companies actually pay a lot of money for a good name. I’ve named cars, computer chips, sandwiches, lingerie, and even a professional baseball team. But nothing was more frustrating than [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Sep 25th, 2008
The Face-Off is Joobili’s newest feature. It will appear on the homepage and it allows users to vote between two “competing” travel experiences happening in the upcoming week. It’s pretty simple, just click on the event you want to vote for and the percentage of total votes magically (read ajax refresh) appears. So get [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Sep 17th, 2008
We are still very much in the Alpha stage of development, but I’ve had fun playing with a demo version of the site this last week. It’s full of bugs and annoying error messages, but I’ve got to admit it’s pretty cool seeing this thing move from my head to my screen. This week we are implementing [...]
