Posts Tagged ‘GoLocal’

Whether it be bangs, a bob, or layers, spikey or just a plain old boy cut: visits to a hairstylist are always hairy situations, and everyone wants to leave the salon with a perfect haircut. But what is the best way to find the best hairstylist around? golocal would like to know as well, and has started a national campaign “Germany’s Top Hairstylist!”. Read the rest of this entry »

The online directory and ratings portal golocal is anxiously waiting for chatty, advice-seeking, and just plain communicative people to take advantage of their new features, which makes the exchange of information even more user-friendly.
The new user search, which users can find in the menu under “Community”, makes it easy to find other golocal users, according to the golocal team. Users can search using fragments of user names in the quick search option, but can also search according to city or postal code in the expanded search. Read the rest of this entry »

The Searchteq GmbH and the TVG Verlag will be immediately integrating the ratings from the community golocal with their united local search engine for business email and internet addresses, webadress.de. In December, Searchteq had already integrated the golocal ratings in the local search engine suchen.de.
Not only will contact information, photos, and operating hours be found by users search for stores, companies, or service providers, but also their ratings from other users with extracts of their comments. More detailed information can be viewed through the direct linking of golocal. webadress.de users can also give ratings – just like by suchen.de. All users have to do is register on the site.

As the first German rating community, the Das Örtliche partner golocal has launched an iPhone app with augmented reality. With the new feature, users can not only see their surroundings in real time using their camera, but also receive information about locations on-site through the live symbol masking.
Those who download the free app in the app store and then register can directly jump into the service: after clicking on the “Radar” symbol, or going into the “Alles in der Nähe (Eng. Everything Close-by)” rubric within “Radar”, little signs pop up around the current view which display the current contact point of the user. With a touch of a finger, handy information like the name of the location, address, distance, as well as ratings from community members can be displayed. With this, users have the ability to know where the next café, restaurant, hotel, theater, museum, or movie theater is. Augmented reality is made possible through the iPhone camera, compass, and GPS. In addition, users can use all the functions of the PC version, like checking-in, uploading pictures, and the reading and writing of ratings.

Starting immediately, the local search engine suchen.de provides ratings for the search results. This is made possible through the partnership with the rating-community golocal. Those that search suchen.de for products and services within a city will now find the ratings that the members of the golocal community gave to the coordinating vendor, in addition to basic information such as contact information or hours of operation. Read the rest of this entry »

Like the goalkeeper’s fear of a penalty shot, firms are now afraid of online ratings. A new study about company business ratings from GoLocal and the GfK shows exactly how precautious business owners are when it comes to social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Golocal, soziale Empfehlungsplattform und Partner von DasÖrtliche, lockt iPhone-User jetzt mit Ex-Fußball-Schwergewicht Reiner Calmund. „Calli“ tritt in der neuen App als Restaurant-Experte auf.

Die eigentlichen Tipps rund ums Essen und Trinken stammen wie im Web von den golocal-Usern, aber präsentiert werden sie in der App von einer Animationsversion des ehemaligen Managers von Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Der tritt dann schon mal als Elvis oder als Pizzabäcker auf und erklärt im O-Ton die einzelnen Restaurantkategorien. „Keine 1:1-Umsetzung des golocal-Portals sollte es werden, wir wollten eine Applikation entwickeln, die in erster Linie Spaß macht, mit der man spielen kann und die dennoch nützliche Funktionen hat“, schreiben die Macher in ihrem Blog. 

Eine Demo-Version im Internet zeigt, wie die App auf dem iPhone funktioniert.

Die lokale Such- und Bewertungsplattform golocal hat kürzlich neben einer umgestalteten Startseite auch ein paar neue Funktionen erhalten.

Laut einer Pressemitteilung zeigt die jetzt im Stile eines Magazins gestaltete Startseite dem Nutzer auf einen Blick alle Highlights aus zwölf Kategorien in seiner und jeder anderen beliebigen deutschen Stadt. Zudem finde man darauf unter anderem auch aktuelle Events, die neuesten Bewertungen oder die aktivsten User der jeweiligen Ortschaft.

Eine weitere neue Funktion sei das “Stöbern in Deinen Nachbarorten”. Automatisch zeige golocal dabei eine Auswahl an Orten im Umkreis von 30 Kilometern der eingegebenen Stadt an. Überdies sollen registrierte golocal-User ab sofort auf einen Blick sehen können, wer noch im selben Ort als “Local” aktiv ist, und schneller und einfacher als bisher Kontakt zu anderen Mitgliedern aufnehmen können.

GoLocal.de only started up in March (2008) (see our report). The ratings portal has just changed hands for two million Euros.