Mapdoo Taking Off the "BETA" Label!

The Mapdoo tech development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the site since we first released Mapdoo (beta) in April 2008. After more than 10 months, we have reached a great number of active users around the world. We're excited to announce that we've taken off the "beta" label last week on the 18/02/2009 and officially named as "Mapdoo Local".

Thanks to the many users who sent their feedback helping us rapidly diagnose and fix issues to make Mapdoo a better local search utility today. We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some useful/interesting features in the near future. We've also started to deliver geo-contextually targeted display ads called "Mapdoo LocalAd". Mapdoo is convinced that success depends on providing ads that actually improve the user experience, while at the same time allowing businesses to reach their target audience. We shall elaborate more about the "LocalAd" in the next posts.

If you are already using Mapdoo, thanks a lot and if you think it is useful please tell your friends about us and join Mapdoo on facebook too. Well if you haven't used Mapdoo for a while, now might be a good time to give it another spin.

Mapdoo+Malaysiakini = 1Map (Collaboration Announcement)

Today, I'm absolutely delighted to announce a collaboration that has been done between Malaysiakini and Mapdoo. The collaboration project named 1Map (1map.malaysiakini.com) will deliver to users Mapdoo's highly localised and geo-based contents with the combination of an intuitive platform and powerful search functions of "on-map" classifieds.

1Map has been officially launched on 5th Jan 2009 and opened for users to list classified ads on-map for free. The collaboration demonstrates Mapdoo's aggressive efforts to create and gather local content and businesses for new distribution platforms and Malaysiakini's drive to leverage its leading edge as the top local online media in Malaysia to provide consumers with excellent user experiences.

Cooperating with Malaysiakini, which is widely recognized as one of the most influencial online companies in the region, allows Mapdoo to show the world the very best of what both companies have to offer - engaging news and location-based information on sophisticated and innovative platforms.

I do want to make sure to thank both Premesh Chandran (CEO, Malaysiakini), and Siva Chandran (Marketing Director, Malaysiakini), and the entire team at Malaysiakini. There's been a lot of hard work and good faith brought to this process over now about a 6-month period of time that we've been working on some very complicated issues that needed significant innovation on both the business and IP front, as well as the technology front.

Thanks to Daryl (COO, Mapdoo) & Rico (CTO, Mapdoo) and the entire Mapdoo team. Everybody worked their socks off to bring this collaboration to bear.

Finally, I hope you enjoy using 1Map.

-say

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