Rool'n'Zoom - official blog

New 7 Wonders

2007-08-15T04:10:00.000-07:00

This article starts the overview of interesting events on our site.

Perhaps you already know that a grandiose show, which introduced a new 7 world wonders, took place in Lisbon on July 2007. They had been chosen in the process of voting through the Internet and cell phones. In general, 90 millions of people all over the world participated in voting .

Further you can see a new list of the 7 world wonders (in random order).

Christ the Redeemer (1931) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Roman Colosseum (70 - 82 A.D.) Rome, Italy

The Great Wall of China (220 B.C and 1368 - 1644 A.D.) China

The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá (before 800 A.D.) Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Machu Picchu (1460-1470), Peru

The Taj Mahal (1630 A.D.) Agra, India

Petra (9 B.C. - 40 A.D.), Jordan

At RollnZoom you have an opportunity also to see the places which belong to the list of finalists, they are included to the group of "New 7 wonders"

Site update

2007-08-14T04:05:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, at the 13th of August 2007, we made a planed update of the site. Basically, updates applied to the rating system.
Now while adding each new place, photo, satellite or review you get a 0,25points.
Also updates were made to correct a few slight bugs.

Changes

2007-08-02T02:47:00.000-07:00

This project started over a year ago as a service for Google Earth placemarks collecting. After spending hours viewing satellites and photos of different places, we rather often had a wish to travel to one of these places and see everything with our own eyes. Living with that idea, we finally decided – it’s time for changes! Now RollNZoom will be travelling itself! Take a look at what we got out of that.

What is it all about...?

Take a walk through the site and you will discover lots of new and interesting functionality. Almost everything in the site has been changed – starting from place home page and upto help pages.
So, we've changed RollNZoom, changed it to travel the world with its help and to share our impressions with other people.

Further you may read about major changed that have taken place on the site.

Where the place rating has gone?

We simplified the meaning of rating – now place has no own rating, or in other words its rating is your opinion about it – «Great place» or «Nothing special». It gives an ability to get to know the opinion of community about this place. To increase the convenience of our users, we've added a statistical chart to the place page, which shows the voting results.
You still can leave your comment on the place page, and you can also write a review to precise and expand your thoughts.

My own blog?

Actually, it's not a blog, though... User home page has also significantly changed – now you may see here something that looks like a blog – we call it a Journal, here are listed all action that user has performed – for example when you added a new place or uploaded some photo. All these events are written into the Journal as blog articles. Journal events can also be filtered and viewed by their type (place, photo, comment, satellite, review etc)
Another new feature – user's map. User's map is a map of places where user has left his vote. Here you may see places which user wants to visit or places that he has visited, together with his voted on these places.

Changes in design

Most of the pages have changes, so there is no sense to describe them all here. We can point only few of them:

Place page
User page
Group page
My RollNZoom page

Is that all?

No, for sure no! The changes are going on... even while you are reading this text, we are developing something new.

See more at RollnZoom website

Roll'n'zoom reloaded!

2007-08-02T01:00:00.000-07:00

It's time to renew our project, so today we are starting a new version of Rollnzoom!
You can read about what exactly has changed in the next article.

Go to Roll'n'Zoom website