It has been a while since I have blogged lately (though I am keeping up with tweeting) about what is going on with rendeznew. Right now, we are trying to push the site. Get the rendeznew name out there and get people using our service for all those opportunities that they need to meet in the middle. On that note, there isn’t much to update about on the technical side, as I have been focusing all my time on making tshirts, tweeting, and just getting the word out there about rendeznew.

We are asking everyone out there that uses rendeznew to tell all your friends, family, and coworkers about our service (ok, maybe not all, but how about a couple… maybe just tweet about it or send an email to a few friends). Spread the word! Things will only get bigger and better as more people use the service. There are big plans on the technical side, but right now we need to get people using the site. We feel we provide an awesome service to you and want your feedback about how we can improve or what we are doing that you can’t live without. Now please go out there and spread the word, and like I said look for a post in the future about how you can win a free rendeznew tshirt!

Last night (March 1st) I was fortunate enough to use the help of a friend of mine to fix up the UI for rendeznew and get the new release out there. The new interface and functionality should prove useful for all sorts of meetings.

• “Anything” Search - There were a large number of requests for this aspect of the site. We used to restrict users to HAVE to enter a search string. Now the default value is “anything” which will just try to find anything between the points entered. Something nice if you are just looking to meet somewhere (say with craigslist) quickly and easily.
• Category Search - This idea came about from a few people using Match.com that said they weren’t sure of the place they wanted to meet in the middle and just had a couple types of restaurants in mind. What came from this was the tabs you see across the top and the categories that arose from it. With a few simple clicks, you should be able to find a lot of choices (of different types of places too) with one search.

As always, we have other features in the works, one of which is to “save” your results to be able to have an eat, drink and play choice all saved into one view to then send off to your friends that use rendeznew also. As always keep checking back to the site, this blog, and our twitter account for updates.

In summary, the “new” rendeznew is up and running. Let us know via email, comment, or twitter if there are any bugs or improvements you would like to see and I will do my best to get things out as quickly as possible. Thanks for letting us help you meet in the middle and we really hope our service can help you now or sometime in the future.