This post is a follow up to one of our tweets from a week or so ago. What are you using rendeznew for? Send us an email or post a comment to let us know. We have so many thoughts and visions about how rendeznew can be used to meet in the middle (we mention them on the about us page, but maybe there are other uses that we never thought of that we can incorporate into the site. A few we have had in the past couple weeks which we plan to look into incorporating into meeting in the middle service are:

• Not needing to enter a search term and just looking for the top yelp ranked places near the midpoint.
• Search based on categories to be able to aggregate multiple search sets into one set (for example burgers or italian)
• Integrate free wifi spots into the search results for those looking to meet in the middle to get work done and not just have a meal.

Please don’t hesitate to comment or email us about anything that you think will help you rendeznew and meet in the middle for dates, work meetings, family gatherings, or something else that we never thought about (please let us know what it is).

This past week, I purchased myself a second hand macbook. It is not the best one around, nor is it in the best condition, but it has the requirements necessary to start on one of the next steps into 2009 for rendeznew. Really, what that means is the start of development on an iPhone application. Stay tuned as I learn the Apple iPhone SDK and how we at rendeznew can make meeting in the middle that much easier while on the go.

We have successfully transferred rendeznew to a new hosting provider. Before today, our site was on webhostingpad and have since moved to dreamhost. From what we have read on the web, dreamhost is one of the best providers around and they will suit our needs until we grow larger (hint, hint, tell your friends about rendeznew). It just shows that with somethings you get what you pay for and web hosting is definitely one of them. The process did take us a few days to get everything all linked up correctly, but everything seems to be up and running great. If there are any intermittent errors, please bear with us, and send us an email if you can.

Let us take this time to also apologize to any users that may have been using our site during the downtime we had while on webhostingpad. We were out of service for a couple days while they had issues, which was our reason for switching providers. Hopefully, the downtime doesn’t deter you from using or spreading the word about out site.

With the successful transfer out of the way, we at rendeznew can start working towards improving our site in so many ways (thanks for all the suggestions), in addition to always helping you meet in the middle.

With any new year always comes changes, resolutions and reflection to make yourself and the world a better place. When thinking of your new years resolutions to be more green, save gas, drive less, spend less money, try new restaurants, meet new people, or anything else you can think of, we at rendeznew want you to think of us. With our service, you can not only save gas and money by meeting your friends, family, dates, and coworkers in the middle, but you can find new places to meet up through our yelp and google searches. Because you will be thinking of us, we think it is only fair for us to be thinking of our users. We are always looking to improve our service, site and blog and we plan to do just that into the new year. There are many projects and ideas on the horizon, check back often to both rendeznew.com and this blog for updates of things to come in 2009.