Cool new Kiwi transport!

Check it out - born in Christchurch, New Zealand and now looking to take on the world...!!!

http://www.yikebike.com

People!

Hmmm, so we are are now confronting the web developer dilemma - how do you get people to come to your wonderful site? We're working on that one. But if you do come and signup and list - we thank you! And would love your feedback. If you have ideas how we can get everybody in NZ and the EU to visit Cooreea we'd also like to hear from you very soon :-)

Cooreea moving house to a new smoking fast server

With our impending launch in Europe tonight we moved Cooreea to its new digital home in London and a smoking fast server, users may have noticed a twenty minute downtime.

With the wonders of modern virtual servers and excellent help from the Rimu Team moving Cooreea between server centres was seamless and a joy :-)

We are very close now...multi language, multi country, multi currency...

We are still here!

We are still here, we have just been a bit busy - Stefan setting up home with his new son, Gwilym working on GetReal for Wanaka Wastebusters and Merle growing life.

Hopefully we will be back on the Cooreea trail in the next few weeks. We can see now that getting a critical mass of listings to make it truly useful in New Zealand is a harder task than we imagined and we are reorganising :-).

Back on deck

Stefan is back after his baby holiday and we are all ready to start coding again. The next few releases will be tidy up releases, making it easier for people to see the potential Cooreea has.

We really like hearing from people with problems or bugs so please let us know if you have any personal gripes with the Cooreea system, site speed, accessibility ... anything ... and we'll do our best to fix them asap. You can email us at: bugs@cooreea.co.nz

Road tripping...

We are in the middle of a quick whip around the South Island spreading the Cooreea word and getting some nice swims in on the way: this morning we had a great one at Taylors Mistake, followed by a coffee at C4.

If you are looking for a ride north from Christchurch or Kaikoura today, or heading south from that way next week - list it soon and we'll keep an eye on the map

Mo magic in the user interface...

We've been ticking off tickets like you wouldn't believe and following hot on the heels of 0.5 we have, you guessed it, 0.6!

This release brings our mapping Routebuilder into all its planned glory. To accompany the waypoints from last week we now have live result updates which link to the relevant info box on the map.

We have also made user profiles more obvious, fixed some issues in our datepicker on the forms and done some house cleaning.

Now it is off round the South Island in the van (with the new recycled ski slat bed furniture) for Gwilym and Merle to rustle up some Cooreea interest for a few weeks and (almost) Stefans baby pause :-)

Waypoints!

Whoop, whoop. We have just livened our 0.5 release which incorporates a major change to to the way we handle waypoints for Journeys. This means you can add points along your route to ensure it is accurate. Especially useful for going from Wanaka to Christchurch via the West Coast.

This is our first update for 2009 and gets us well on the way towards the key functionality we have mapped out for our 1.0 release. Happy New Year!

Cooreea - perfect for odd shaped things purchased on Trademe!

One of the uses we always imagined for Cooreea is if, as I did last year, you purchase an odd shaped item like a bicycle on Trademe and want it transported down the country.

There are numerous cars travelling the roads everyday and I for one would much rather send my bike or surfboard with somebody who is used to transporting and caring for such things.

There are numerous odd freight items, garden equipment, chainsaws, tools of all kinds and we look forward to seeing what imaginative uses Cooreea is put to.

The difference between private and commercial users

We have been asked by a couple of people what the difference is in Cooreea between a commercial and a private transport provider. We currently do not clearly indicate what sort of users people are as our initial intention was to bring commercial users in at a later date.

We are currently working as quickly as possible to get this clarified and transparent on the site. We intend to let users tag their listings as commercial or private and clearly indicate this back to other users.

If you are a commercial user and would like to give us feedback on how this might work for you please get on touch.

Coming up for our next bug fixing release

We are aiming at releasing updates, mainly feature tuning changes, regularly and we are coming up to our second ever update tomorrow or Wednesday.

Our signup page has decided that half the people trying to signup are Robots. Either it is too aggressive or...well...bioengineering has advanced further than AI... so in this next update we will include a major change to the new account registration process. Fixing the Captcha and smoothing the way for new account creators.