And then there were seven!

Hello to One and All,

There are now seven ways to search for something on www.finditbyme.com:

1. Name of the Listing (usually the business name)
2. Name of a street (this gives a listing of everyone/everything on that street)
3. A search term (category)
4. Phone number of a listing
5. A URL Hotlink (like www.finditbyme.com?EagleEyeFab) or by using the Hotlink in the search box.
6. An actual web address in the search box on the site itself
7. A name of someone associated with the business (first name, last name, or full name)

There will be other searches to follow:

8. Landmark Name (can be a strip mall name, industrial park name, outlet mall name, covered mall name)
9. Leasing/rental agent name (will show vacant commercial properties for that agent/agency)

If anyone has had problems with response time on the site, like it seems to freeze up on occasion, I can confirm it is an issue with Time Warner's network, as I spent about two hours on the phone with their tech support folks getting the issue run down. I have to say they really have some good guys working there.

There will be more frequent posts to this blog from now on. So stay tuned to this and the other channels I am setting up for communications (like YouTube, Flickr, etc.)

Later!

Now on YouTube

Yes! You heard right...

We now have an account on YouTube, so pretty soon you'll see some new material that will be pretty fun to watch.

The address of the YouTube site is http://www.youtube.com/FindItByMe.

See? It's pretty easy to Find It By Me on www.FindItByMe.com.

Watch this blog for cool new stuff. Please check out Eagle Eye Fabrication on our site at www.finditbyme.com?EagleEyeFab. Drew Keys is the owner, Mike McCormack the senior advisor, and have they got some cool stuff in store in the invention and arts departments.

Want incredible custom clothing with inspired creations? See Crown Creations at this address: www.finditbyme.com?www.crowncreations.net. Carol Guttman will lead you through her inspired writings and creations on one of our best listings.

We're working on some REALLY COOL STUFF for the next release. Stay tuned!!!

Cool Stuff

Hello World!

New stuff in the search engine, I call it HotLinks. Here is how it works:

http://www.finditbyme.com/?EagleEyeFab

What does that do? It does a redirect automatically to the Eagle Eye Fabrication listing in the search engine. It allows you to use the above link on your business card or email signature, and anyone clicking on it will get redirected automatically to your listing bypassing the normal search mechanism (which can still be used after the search is displayed).

Here are some other ones:
http://www.finditbyme.com/?EagleEyeSculpture
http://www.finditbyme.com/?CrownCreations
http://www.FindItByMe.com?CrownCreations.net
http://www.finditbyme.com/?LovingMemoryPets

Well, I think it's cool!

It's 5:00 O'Clock. Where is your search engine?

So what's new?

1. Membership organizations (like Fallbrook Chamber) now have an active link under Memberships that shows all their members (if known). Clicking on the Members button will show all their members in the lower search grid. So you can go through the list and explore, but you can go back to the main membership organization when you want to by clicking in the already still displayed link in the upper search box.
2. Displayed languages reduced to English and Spanish (for now).
3. Pets link partially working; need to work on category to listing associations.
4. Starting to work on BHO (browser helper object) for IE. More on this later.

Comments anyone???

Latest Changes

Pretty soon I'm going to publish a road map (no pun) of how this site will progress. In the meantime, here is a list of changes since the last update:

• Menus almost fully multi-lingual.
• Site material and labels almost fully multi-lingual.
• The main skin's layout has changed slightly. See the site for an example.
• Image classification now working for a single broad category.
• I'm loading my Death Valley pictures a few at at time onto the site (total now is around 550).
• Eagle Eye Fabrication, Cynthia Graffio, Helena Bongartz, Farmhouse Coffee Co have also been rudimentarily categorized.
• Single clicking on an image thumbnail loads the main window image. Single clicking on this brings up the large image window.
• Double clicking on an image thumbnail does the above in a single action; fill small display window and then loading the full resolution image in a pop-up window.
• There is now a "Map" menu item. Right now it brings up the vicinity of the Fallbrook Post Office. Later it will be fully navigable with controls, etc.

Next to come into production will be the ability to log into the site as a consumer, but also as a subscriber to be able to update your listing yourself. Also working on the tour planner application...

I think now this website www.finditbyme.com is starting to get fun. Stay tuned!!!

John Graffio