Archive for September, 2007

HartaBrasovului.ro – Romanian GMaps Mashup

After announcing softicator yesterday, I am once again proud to present you another Romanian web2.0 startup.

HartaBrasovului.ro is a directory of Google-mapped tourist attractions and companies in Brasov, Romania. (“harta” translates “map”)

A current beta, we promise a great service for anyone who wishes to search a location in Brasov, no matter what their target would be.

Amongst its cool features:

  • Google Maps interaction
  • high-quality map of Brasov (sorry, but the Google ones lack detail)
  • street search in Brasov
  • RSS feed with latest locations added
  • visitor comments and impressions for any location
  • a custom search engine plugin for Firefox (currently alpha)

And future:

  • youtube & flickr mashup
  • tagging locations
  • social bookmarking features
  • map widgets for the take

We currently offer companies who want to get listed a:

  • FREE basic subscription plan,
  • Standard plan including your extra description, logo & contact info,
  • Gold plan wich dedicates a custom subdomain and page with a photo gallery and video presentation.

HartaBrasovului.ro is part of a larger network of websites including Harta-Bucurestiului.ro (sorry for the dash, but the non-dash domain was taken) all of them to be found on HartaFirmelor.ro (translates “map of companies”).

Cosmin and I are working on it and you’ll find out more on our blog. Till then, go explore!

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Softicator.com – Romanian Web2.0 Software Directory


I am proud to announce the pre-launch of Softicator.com (soon to be a .ro), Romanian software directory like no other.

Softicator will promote romanian software – be it desktop application, webapp, script, of all categories – from currency converters to ERPs, and under all licensing models – from commercial to open source.

It will be web2.0 all the way, with

  • tags
  • user comments
  • user ratings
  • rss feeds from all over the place
  • free basic service
  • not to mention gradients and an arial rounded logo :)

We plan on doing big things for the Romanian software market, including a secret weapon we’ll launch once we’re all settled. With an initial ad-generated revenue model, we wish to improve our karma and drag out into the light all the geeks writing apps and scripts in their lairs. Oh, and we’ll target corporate people with CRMs also…

I say “we”, since I’m the initiator and co-founder of the project along with a gang of cool geeks you’ll meet on the softicator blog. Till then, keep in touch with our capture tool on www.softicator.com

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