Our work.
Lonely Planet
Recursive worked with Lonely Planet to help integrate Twitter into their destination portals. Lonely Planet can now index Twitter posts in real-time, filter them based on location or other keywords, and pull the resulting stream into a relevant destination page. This provides the immediacy of real-time, relevant updates for that location.
An extensible API built in means Lonely Planet can continue to add in filtering or other services to further enhance their stream of 'tweets' for both visitors to the site, and those following Lonely Planet on Twitter.
ASN Events
We've also helped ASN Events redevelop their online event and conference management system from the ground up. ASN Events can now manage their events, accommodation, attendees and payments all through the one system. Attendees can now use their member profiles to log back in and make changes to their details and registrations at any time, as well as browse relevant events based on their interests. Planned Facebook and Outlook integration will allow attendees to manage their events more easily and promote events spreading 'virally' via Facebook and other social media.
The connected web
The web has come a long way. It's built on a series of tubes, and those tubes are not only connecting people to websites but connecting people to each other, and websites to other websites. Sophisticated input and output interfaces (or APIs, if you will) allow sites and services to connect to and even extend the usefulness of each other. This gives us an unprecedented chance to customise the web experience for users, make data even more relevant, and create new services easier than ever. Add to this a shift towards the pervasive, mobile web, and you have something we're pretty excited about. If you're excited too, we're the people who want to help you.
It's about the users
What point is data you can't get to? We firmly believe that focusing on the end-user experience is what makes the data truly useful. With users becoming accustomed to increasingly sophisticated web services, we're all in favour of making services that are as open, extensible, and user-friendly as possible, allowing users to tailor their own experience and get what they need from your data.