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Yesterday we saw our third Oi Va Voi concert, and it was really good. These guys know how to rock, and make a lot of fun. There were a lot of personal changes in the band, and a lot of new music - but it was still a lot of fun. The did seem a bit too ‘confident’ if you ask me - it seems like it was more important to them to make a ’show’ than it was a few years ago. I also think the new musicians are not as cool as the old ones, but maybe I’m just nostalgic
Anyway, great fun! Yuri Gagarin rules!

We decided to do a short travel survey for TripTouch - find out what it is that people want during their trip. I think it turned out pretty cool, check it out here.

We used a web-based survey tool named SurveyMonkey. It costs a bit of money, but it makes nice surveys quite easily, and it’s very flexible in its analyzing and filtering tools. Recommended!

We finally got our own server for TripTouch. It was a difficult decision, but finally we chose LiquidWeb as the host. It’s not easy because there are so many of those hosts, and many sites who have reviews and user testimonials, and monitoring - it’s just too much information.
The new server is actually a lot faster than the shared hosting we had before, and hopefully will be able to manage many more users. When we have them, that is

Facebook (A social-network site) has opened up their site, and introduced the ‘facebook platform’. Basically it’s an API that let’s you write application for facebook. The idea is pretty cool, and there was a lot of press about it.

We at TripTouch decided to see what’s what, and wrote a small application called TripRecord. Basically it lets you choose the countries you visited, and it displays the list in your profile. Simple, but rather nice, we think.

The application is written using PHP. It’s actually hosted on our own servers. The facebook API is very easy to learn, and quite robust. The documentation is somewhat lacking. Luckily there’s an example in PHP and you can just test and try all sorts of things till you get it right.

If you have a facebook account, click here to get your country list. If you don’t have an account yet, try it - I really like Facebook, it’s an excellent site - those guys are brilliant.