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Old news

18.01.2008

It’s though as we’ve forgotten this site needs to be updated every once in a while!

Well, the latest stuff we went public with were the redesign of Podravka’s corporate site and updates to “Vegeta”, “RTL pomaze djeci”, “eZadar” and “Nacional” websites.

Podravka.hr, website of the biggest Croatian food company, is now being powered by core.web and can do all sorts of cool stuff. It can even talk to Flickr in a sense that every image uploaded to the CMS has the option to end up in Podravka’s photostream. The site also features our new multimedia player (code name: project 9137) that supports video chaptering. You can see how it works on Podravka’s redesign news article.
(We’ve written more info on the entire project in our portfolio entry.)

Vegeta websites, all ten of them, have a bit of a new look. The polaroids you can browse through on them represent recipes that have been retrieved from Coolinarika, the culinary portal, via our own magic API.

The website of the humanitarian organization that we are sponsoring, “RTL pomaze djeci” (RTL is helping children), recently got the ability to receive on-line donations via credit cards. The campaign the organization ran in Dec 2007. raised about 2.6 mil Kunas, which is about 350 thousand Euros, a sum that will without a doubt help out a number of projects (sorry, article in croatian only) the organization is taking care of.

eZadar started this year with the ability to have registered users. They made us implement this feature so they could give out valuable prizes, and yet they do not let us participate in the competitions. Outrageus!

“Nacional” enlisted our help to build them Izbori ‘07 (Elections ‘07), a site within their site that kept track on everything going on in croatian politics during the election campaigns. Now that the elections have gone by, the site represents a nice little chronology of events.

Web.Burza at biZbuZZ, IT business conference

23.10.2007

Just a quick note that Vanja will be speaking on the final day of the only IT business conference in Serbia, covering BB2007 as one of our latest projects, and possibly — just possibly — making a surprise announcement which is bound to tickle every project manager’s imagination.
Catch him there on Oct 26th.
UPDATE: See Vanja’s presentation on SlideShare.

News from the Big Brother house (no, we're not trapped in their cellar)

10.09.2007

UPDATE: Links to the BB website have been removed as the address is currently redirected to the RTL’s main site.

After some 600-ish hours of perfecting martial arts that include markup ninjitsu and training our core.web CMS to become core.web.distributed, we are proud to present the croatian Big Brother 2007 website — a place where you can keep an eye on your favorite housemates’ activities.

Considering RTL’s previous experience with mad traffic on BB sites, we took special care of the performance to ensure every BB fan gets to enjoy the photos and videos from the house without any site hiccups; We developed a mini CDN and brought it online in cooperation with the fantastic T-Com crew… and you know what? It really paid off! The first 24 hours saw some 10.000 user registrations. Both the registered users and scores of unregistered ones were able to surf the site as if they were the only ones there… (those servers still complain that they’re bored most of the time, you know)

We’ve also got a special shout to the RTL’s Big Brother editorial staff, who are diligently filling up the site’s content. Good job, guys and girls!

Alas, the Big Brother story does not end here. During the 106 days that the show is running, we’ll be monitoring the site and adding new features. Stay tuned!

What we were cooking in May and June

23.07.2007

With a little delay in transmission, Burza TV reports on what has been going on just before summer hit us. Read on.

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