Comments on: Nestoria API Now iPhone App http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/07/nestoria-api-now-iphone-app/ Everything You Need to Know About Property Portals. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:06:22 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: rightmove.co.uk Releases iPhone App | Property Portal Watch http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/07/nestoria-api-now-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-2543 rightmove.co.uk Releases iPhone App | Property Portal Watch Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:31:41 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=5143#comment-2543 [...] UK property portals to release iPhone apps have been nestoria.co.uk, which announced a developer had used the nestoria API to create an app, and globrix.com, which recently updated their mobile website. It follows a flurry of PR about [...] [...] UK property portals to release iPhone apps have been nestoria.co.uk, which announced a developer had used the nestoria API to create an app, and globrix.com, which recently updated their mobile website. It follows a flurry of PR about [...]

]]> By: Ed http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/07/nestoria-api-now-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-2473 Ed Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:10:03 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=5143#comment-2473 @wellapointed Ed from Nestoria here. I agree with you, mobile represents but a small percentage of user interest. That's why we spend no time on it. This app wasn't built by us, it was built by someone using our API. We spend all of our time, as you suggest, working on improving search for the countries we operate in - a very difficult and long term process. There are many issues around data quality that we have only limited control over. But we keep trying and learning as we go. If you're interested please subscribe our blog(s), or have a peak at our labs: http://www.lokkulabs.com where we post experiments that aren't quite ready for nestoria yet. ciao, Ed @wellapointed

Ed from Nestoria here. I agree with you, mobile represents but a small percentage of user interest. That’s why we spend no time on it. This app wasn’t built by us, it was built by someone using our API.

We spend all of our time, as you suggest, working on improving search for the countries we operate in – a very difficult and long term process. There are many issues around data quality that we have only limited control over. But we keep trying and learning as we go.

If you’re interested please subscribe our blog(s), or have a peak at our labs: http://www.lokkulabs.com where we post experiments that aren’t quite ready for nestoria yet.

ciao,
Ed

]]> By: wellapointed http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/07/nestoria-api-now-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-2470 wellapointed Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:10:34 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=5143#comment-2470 I have seen the traffic figures for mobile phone app searches/leads, and although Netoria's API is no doubt very good I suspect it generates a fraction of the business's overall traffic. I would guess that even the best portals struggle to attract any more than five per cent of their traffic via mobile phones. This is, of course, is all about developing a technology for the future and an investment in tomorrow's search behaviour (i.e. away from computers and towards tablets or 3G PDA phones, etc) but I suspect this is a long way off yet - only the truly geeky have acces to this sort of technology and your mainstream, Daily Mail reading, ITV watching consumer is far behind. Organisations like Nestoria would be better off spending their VC cash on refining search functionality - few offer a truly brilliant search. I have seen the traffic figures for mobile phone app searches/leads, and although Netoria’s API is no doubt very good I suspect it generates a fraction of the business’s overall traffic. I would guess that even the best portals struggle to attract any more than five per cent of their traffic via mobile phones. This is, of course, is all about developing a technology for the future and an investment in tomorrow’s search behaviour (i.e. away from computers and towards tablets or 3G PDA phones, etc) but I suspect this is a long way off yet – only the truly geeky have acces to this sort of technology and your mainstream, Daily Mail reading, ITV watching consumer is far behind. Organisations like Nestoria would be better off spending their VC cash on refining search functionality – few offer a truly brilliant search.

]]> By: Amul Raj Desai http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/07/nestoria-api-now-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-2350 Amul Raj Desai Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:51:30 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=5143#comment-2350 at last one property portal in 'real having their ear to the ground the the street ' well done team for bring this apps to mobile platform functionality is not bad with the V engine kicking in. Very comendable to all the team at Nestoria Amul Raj Desai International business development Manager twitter -property1 at last one property portal in ‘real having their ear to the ground the the street ‘ well done team for bring this apps to mobile platform functionality is not bad with the V engine kicking in.

Very comendable to all the team at Nestoria

Amul Raj Desai
International business development Manager
twitter -property1

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