Axle8 is proud to announce its partnership with leading Sydney pubs and bars online guide, Local Sydney.
Thanks to Local Sydney, you’ll now be able to use Axle8 to find out what’s happening at the pubs, bars and clubs around Sydney.
Started in 2007, Local Sydney is the supreme online guide to What’s On at Sydney’s pubs and clubs. Local Sydney helps you find your “happy hour”. Recognising that each person’s happy hour is different, Local Sydney breaks down their stuff into categories:
Beer, Bingo, Bubblies, Cocktails, Comedy, Dancing, Food, Karaoke, Ladies Night, Live Music, Poker, Pool, Random, Spirits, Trivia and Wine.
So start planning out which watering holes to visit with Local Sydney. And use Axle8 to let Local Sydney be your personal guide when you’re on your night out, wherever you are.
Last week we decided to push the button and go live with our beta in Sydney - the rest of the world will just have to wait for now. It’s been something which we had been working on for the past 7 months and had been released in limited functionality back in April with the debut of our initial iPhone app on Apple’s App Store.
Now we have revamped our website and more importantly, it allows organisations (we like to call them Partners) to create geo-tagged Notices about their events and promotions through an easy to use web interface. We’re especially calling out to event, festival and campus student clubs and society organisers but also businesses to sign up as Partners and try out for themselves and see how Axle8 can be used complement their existing communication channels.
For those of you which have already tried out our iPhone app, we’d love to hear what you think. From bugs to suggestions or even why you like it, we would appreciate hearing from you! We use getsatisfaction.com’s social support site so you can see what feedback other people have given and even vote for features that other people have suggested. So visit www.getsatisfaction.com/axle8 and let us know what you think!
Lately we’ve been working on getting Notices on Axle8 so they can be shared on social networks like Facebook. It’s actually one of the new features included in the latest 0.9.1 release from the other week.
So if you see a Notice that you like, you can add a summary of the Notice to your status update for all your friends to see! Pretty cool huh? We’ve also included sharing via good old fashioned email as well and Twitter is coming soon!
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” — Steve Jobs
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
Zero Point Nine: Beginning of a new era
Our first update to date was submitted to Apple last Friday and today we just got notification that it’s “In Review”! This much anticipated new release will feature more improvements and enhancements that you can count on one hand which has resulted from many solid (and grueling) hours of coding.
Firstly, we have vamped up the interface making your Axle8 experience better in every way! Our images have been given a much needed makeover and some new ones have been added in to the fold. We’ve also added sharing onto Facebook and via email so you can let your friends know all about your adventures and shenanigans.
Next up is our support of iOS 4 so you can be sure that even better features will be on their way shortly! We haven’t even scratched the surface yet.
Finally, the completion of this new version marks the beginning of a critical stage in our development. Not only is our iPhone app developed, we’ve completed our minimal viable product (MVP in Eric Ries’ Lean Startup philosophy lingo) of our web app which will allow marketing partners create and manage the Notices they post on the Axle8 network. Soft launch and beta release here we come!
We’ll be reaching out to event and festival organisers as well as campus and college student societies, clubs and groups soon so you’ll be finding all the information about the coolest stuff that’s happening around you! If you have any organisation you think would be interested in being a partner, we’d love to speak to them!
So, keep an eye out for the update on the Apple App Store and let us know what you think. :)
PS: We may still yet win that World Cup sweepstakes… Go Oranje!
An Argentinian, a German and an Aussie walk into a bar…
Here at Axle8 we’re cheering on the Socceroos by littering the area with green and gold! Check out our collection of swag that’s growing daily!
Despite our absolutely crushing defeat against Germany (of which the score is never to be mentioned again), hopes are still high here and around the nation for the Socceroos to make it to the next round. A win against Ghana and Serbia is mandatory!
Our new German recruit rightfully proudly bares her colours, whilst our Argentinian veteran celebrates daily by kicking a soccer ball through the front door daily screaming “Goooooooooal!” (if only!). As it stands both heavy weight countries have a decent shot at taking out the World Cup and we have our second highest hopes for them… right up there… just under the Socceroos :)
On a different note, we’ve all been pulled into a World Cup sweepstakes organised in our office in hope of riches and glory. What did the Axle8 team pick out of the box of 32 countries?
Switzerland
Paraguay
Netherlands
Denmark
New Zealand
and the one and only… Australia!
Our best chance as a team to win the grand prize lies with the Dutch. Having said that, there’s no prize for almost winning so things are looking somewhat gloomy… but then again Switzerland won against Spain and NZ drew against Slovakia so who knows? Amongst ourselves it’s a wager of who drew the team that gets knocked out 1st!
There’s no doubt all eyes around here will be focused on the Australia vs Ghana match starting tomorrow night at midnight. C’mon Australia!
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee
There’s a little secret we’ve been keeping here at Axle8 for a little over a month. You might notice that first App icon on the top of the list on the photo above. The orange one. Yes, that’s our little baby. Well, it’s not the full version that we have installed for y’all but version 0.80 and it’s available now on all international iTunes App Stores!
We’d decided not to make too much noise about our initial release and to be honest, the approval of the app surprised us, taking only 2 weeks rather than the 4 weeks we had anticipated for with only one minor fix requested by Apple. One of the limitations to this early release of the iPhone app is that our web site (well, really it’s really our web app) isn’t quite ready yet. This makes it “difficult” for inputting content onto our system so our marketing partner friends will have to wait for a little bit longer before they can give Axle8 a proper whirl.
A big yee-hah needs to go out to our intrepid iPhone developer, Tristan for doing such a great job in building version 0.80. He’s blown the socks off us all here with his super programming prowess (and to stay vegan)! The next version he’s currently working on will add some nifty social elements - we’ll keep you posted on when that will be released. Not too far off we expect.
In the meantime, feel free to try out our App and we’d welcome your feedback regarding its user interface and design. Adiós for now!