Zenbu
Blog URL http://zenbu.wordpress.com
Located Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand
Tags local, search, creativecommons, cclicense, maps
The Zenbu blog follows the development of the www.zenbu.co.nz local search engine for NZ places, products and services.
Latest Blog Posts
- October 2009 on Zenbu on Nov 9, 2009 in Data
There were 5,425 edits from 118 different users in October with 110,000 unique visitors and over 160,000 pageviews. The biggest editors were zenbu 4694 pb12 195 garyt 81 burgla 79 brownees172 59 GaryMck 43 MauriceWinn 23 hoogy 18...
- Find the nearest…. payphone?! on Oct 22, 2009 in Uncategorized
Did you know that you can find every single payphone in New Zealand on Zenbu? Earlier this year Kiwitonita got Telecom to release this data and we loaded almost 3000 payphone locations onto Zenbu. (There are actually over 4000 payphones in NZ but lot...
- Mobile Zenbu on Oct 12, 2009 in Mobile
Data costs on NZ cellular networks have been somewhat prohibitive for the average user for a long time but have finally become affordable. For $10 a month I get a 100MB package of data as an addon to my Vodafone account. It won’t have you cance...
- September 2009 on Zenbu on Oct 6, 2009 in Data
There were 3301 edits from 147 users in September with over 100,000 unique visitors to the website for the fourth month in a row. It’s so encouraging to know that Zenbu is helping thousands of New Zealander’s every month find the basic...
- Zenbu on iPhones September 2009 on Sep 3, 2009 in Uncategorized
Version 2.27 of the Zenbu iPhone app is out today, almost 1 year after it first went live. Thousands of New Zealanders have downloaded the app and use it as a mobile reference directroy on a regular basis. The app is entirely offline so we don’...
- August 2009 on Zenbu on Sep 2, 2009 in Uncategorized
2179 edits from 135 different users in August bringing us up to over 75,000 entries with over 100,000 unique users of the site in the month. That doesn’t even begin to factor in the people using Zenbu data on their mobiles, iPhones and GPS unit...
- Start a directory website in 5 easy steps! on Aug 24, 2009 in Uncategorized
Buy some software like http://www.phpmydirectory.com Buy some data with a republishing license (harder than it sounds) Make some bold claims about your position in the marketplace (”Number One Bestest Directory Ever!”) Start charging exc...
