Archive for September, 2008

Release 5.0 New Features – Tags

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Tagging, as any up and coming graffiti artist knows, is the process of adding relevant slogans to a wall or in our case a business listing. We decided that tagging would be a great addition to BView and this Thursday it was unleashed.

Tags are always associated with a particular business and can be added either when you write a review, or separately when you edit the business. Kat and I have added a video below showing you how to add tags. A tag cloud will be shown for every business, giving you a quick summary of what people think, and also against a user showing you what tags they have added.

Additionally, when you search for a business using the “what” field, as well as relevant categories you will be shown all businesses tagged with your search phrase. For example, searching for “ice cream” will show not only all ice cream parlours, but also all businesses tagged with “ice cream”.

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Chestnut House – what's going on?

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Every now and then we see a business pick up a string of bad reviews. Gwent Fleet Management was a good example as was American Amusements (t/a Metro Hotel). Today I noticed Chestnut House receiving some terrible reviews.

I dug around on the Internet and found this article which mentions the company.

Thanks to the BView reviewers that added these reviews and we’d welcome further reviews while a response from Chestnut House would be interesting.

UPDATE: Andy Garside from Chestnut House contacted me today to point out that the article above does not mention Chestnut House. It is actually a comment on the article which makes the reference. I have asked Andy to respond directly to reviewers on BView. I hope a constructive conversation ensues while any comments can be made directly on this post if this is deemed a better forum.

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XL goes bust

Friday, September 12th, 2008

My thoughts are currently with the 90,000 odd people currently being directly affected by XL going bust today. I can only imagine what it must be like to be stuck in an airport somewhere round the world with a young family. XL were not on BView until I added them last month. If you read my review you’ll see how hard I had to work to get some of their listing information.

For reference, the following trading names are listed on their site:

XL Leisure Group Plc, XL Airways UK Limited, Excel Aviation Limited, Explorer House Limited, Aspire Holidays Limited, Freedom Flights Limited, Freedom Flights (Aviation) Limited, The Really Great Holiday Company plc, Medlife Hotels Limited, Travel City Flights Limited, Kosmar Villa Holidays plc

If anybody would like to vent some anger then please add a review. Read mine for some inspiration.

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30% Off Gap Voucher

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I was on Twitter yesterday and someone posted a link to a short-term voucher for (the) GAP.

It’s here.

It starts today (11th September) and ends on the 14th. I’ll be buying another couple of grey V-necks. It would appear that if you change the unique reference number in the browser down it will generate new downloads if one specific code runs out. Remember to write a review if you use it!

If you are on the look out for other offers remember BView is giving away an iPhone at the end of October.

Update: New voucher valid until the 30th November 08 available here

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Cake 1.0 is over. Now releasing Cake 2.0

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Hi there. It’s your friendly neighbourhood kat here, Thanks for all your entries to our first site-wide cake competition! The winner is…

Joy W from Sheffield for her review of Gullivers Eco Park Ltd entitled, “Not for genuine Lilliputians (toddlers)”!

Loved the title, and you can really sense Joy’s rage at her little ones being slightly too tall to fit under the 90cm restriction for getting in for free. She describes the venue beautifully, and goes through the entire park, describing eating and toilet facilities. Great review Joy!

In close second, we have Kelly R from Newbury!

She wrote a review entitled, “Definitely not exhausting going here!” of Ats Euromaster Ltd. I loved her ‘car pun’ in the title, and it is an extremely well written, and extraordinarily detailed review. She tells you what products they sell, how the service was, and by the end of reading it, you are left feeling as grateful as her for the excellent service!

Hope you enjoy your cake, Joy! (and Kelly, I will be sending you a little prize in the post soon as well! Hopefully both will take some photos so we can show them to the rest of you.)

And now for next month…

Write your reviews of Animals!

That’s right, write anything about animals. It could be a pet store, farm, zoo, or just your local convenience store that happens to have a dog that sits on the counter. Here’s a little inspiration… Huw L’s review of Mudchute Park & Farm. As you can see, he has a great title, and, most importantly, fantastic photos and lots of personality in his review.

  • Contest closes on September 30th
  • You can enter as often as you like, but make sure you share your review with kathryn.neville@bview.com (or send me a link to your review)
  • I give extra marks for photos, witty titles, and dialogue in your text.
  • Make sure you give relevant information about the business as well!

If you need some more inspiration, I will send you photos of fuzzy animals. I’m quite partial to goats.

And, as promised in the email current bview members receive, here’s your animal haiku!

  • bah neigh rawr moo oink
  • Write your animal reviews
  • But please in English

P.S. If you can write a better haiku, post it on my wall!

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Win an iPhone 3G

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

That’s right, we’ve got an 8Gb Apple iPhone 3G to give away to one lucky reviewer. I got myself one recently, and it’s brilliant – you’d be mad not to want one.

Every public review you write from now until midnight 31st October will get you an entry into our prize draw, and we’ll announce the winner around November 10th. The more reviews you write, the more chance you have of winning, so get writing!

Couldn’t be easier.

More details of the competition can be found on the BView site, and if you’ve got any questions please get in touch.

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