80beans

Ultra-short post: We wish you a happy and successful 2008 here at 80beans. That’s it.

On January 31 we will be attending Bowlr 2008, the bowling event for the Dutch interactive industry. We will be in training for the first four weeks of January. Read more about it on the Bowlr website (sorry, Dutch only).

Update: We actually made it to the second round and ended up somewhere in the top 25%.

80beans has done the technical development for NU.nl TV Guide, which launched today. This EPG runs on the biggest Dutch news site NU.nl (400 million page views per month). Development was done in PHP and AJAX functionality was added as progressive enhancement.

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Today we launched the Ethnic Chic Online Shop for our client Ethnic Chic. The shop features the exclusive and high quality items that Ethnic Chic also has on sale in their “real” shop. Ordering of products is easy and payments can be made using MasterCard, Visa or American Express (more payment methods to come).

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80beans was once again responsible for the technical development of youth community Kaboem. This community has over 200,000 members between the ages 12 and 18. The new version of the site creates possibilities to connect with friends and more social networking features.

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Today the release of Rails framework version 2.0 was announced. We have been developing using release candidates for a while and are happy with it, especially the RESTful resources.

For Stillpoint Applications we developed iTender, a project management and collaboration tool to digitize the tender process in the building industry. For more info, please check the website (sorry, Dutch only).
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For newrulez we transformed the supplied graphical design into HTML/CSS and hooked it up to ContentServ, ilse media’s CMS of choice.

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For Rabobank, one of the largest Dutch banks (45,000 employees), 80beans developed a site called “Brand Made Visible” in cooperation with Via Utrecht for use on the banks intranet. Employees can vote on pictures and video to determine who wins the “Fatima award”. Nominees were based on previous votes for pictures in the categories Sponsoring, Environment & Employees. The goal of the site is to make employees aware of the Rabobank values.

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In cooperation with Van Gog we built the new website for Proof, an Amsterdam based communication/branding agency. Info about the company and the projects they have worked on are presented in a clear, newspaper like style.

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