QuoVadis Live! becomes more social

It's been a while since our last post. We haven't been idling. If you pay attention to the site you can see that user pages have changed. Thus members have now the option to personalize their profile page even better by picking-up a pre-designed theme and customize it with a background picture of their own. Mapped geoevents, geotours and contacts geolocations can be immediately spotted on a single map with basic data on the left side of the map including distances from the user's geolocation to the geoevents he has mapped or those he is interested in attending. And because a user might map those geoevents of special interest to others - such as concerts, gigs, exhibitions, meetings, etc. - we thought it would be nice to let QuoVadis Live! Members follow each other. Thus a user can not only have contacts but observers as well. And whenever a contact is also an observer, that contact becomes a friend with whom you can decide to share non-degraded geolocation information. See for yourself at http://www.quovadislive.com/.

Busy summer at QuoVadis Live!

It's been a long and very busy summer here at QuoVadis Live! - www.quovadislive.com. And we still are. The solution we're working on and we're going to release before the end of this month is quite exciting. So stay tuned!

QuoVadis Live! And SMS Text Messages

With QuoVadis Live! quovadislive.com you can be notified whenever a friend of yours is nearby or a geoevent that might be of interest to you happens in a specific area. The notifications are sent as emails to your mailbox and direct messages to your Twitter account if it's connected to your QuoVadis Live! one. That means you can already receive updates as text messages if you're not using an international number (must be a US number only). Well happens that a couple of weeks ago O2 UK teamed up with Twitter so O2 UK customers that have a Twitter account can receive updates as text messages free of charge. Therefore if you happen to be a US resident or an O2 UK customer with an account in QuoVadis Live! connected to a Twitter account, you can receive quovadislive.com notifications via free text messages.

About Twitter and text messaging:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14014
Free text messages updates for O2 UK customers too:
http://dnc.o2.co.uk/home/2009/07/turning-on-twitter-texts.html

QuoVadis Live! and your Twitter account:
http://quovadislive.blogspot.com/2009/06/quovadislivecom-and-your-twitter.html
More on QuoVadis Live! notifications:
http://www.quovadislive.com/help.asp#hlpFAQ

Content Adaptation by mobile network operators - resolved!

We told you we'd keep you posted on that one so there it is! If you have a look at our post of last July the 10th (Content Adaptation by mobile network operators), you might remember that all of a sudden quovadislive.com pages were automatically being reformatted on mobiles connected to specific mobile operators. That is called "Content Adaption". Although content adaptation is not a bad idea, it simply didn't work for our web services. Therefore we immediately contacted Vodafone UK to see if we could have our website whitelisted so their "Content Adaptation" software doesn't reformat our pages. The guys over there have been very supportive and worked on the matter immediately. We've also sent an email whitelist request to Vodafone Ireland the same day which seemed to have gone un-actioned as our webpages were still being reformatted 20 days after in Ireland. So we've contacted Vodafone UK again to see if they could help and we are now pleased to announce that our webpages are not being reformatted when connecting through Vodafone Ireland neither. From QuoVadis Live! we'd like to thank Brian, Ryan and all the rest of the team at Vodafone for their support. Thanks guys!

Map your point of interests too with QuoVadis Live! geowizard

Seemed kinda obvious isn't it? Until today users could add new venues only when mapping geoevents or geotours. From now on, users can also map tourist point of interests (POIs), that is places worth visiting (and not strictly commercial), and sport and leisure centres. The "Map event!" button in the top bar has also been replaced with a simple "Map it!" button. Clicking the "Map it!" button launches our user-friendly Geo Wizard which will guide all the way to map your geoevent, POI or activity successfully. Know an unmissable geoevent, a POI worth visiting or a nice sport & leisure centre? Feel free to map it at quovadislive.com.