Quick update eason.ie has been added to the pricefindr.ie website. You will now see there books appear in the results pages for searches. Quick example
http://www.pricefindr.ie/pricefindr/product/book/The-Girl-Who-Played-with-Fire
All feedback welcome.
I recently added Books to pricefindr.ie to allow for price comparisons. Initially products from the following well known websites have been added
www.waterstones.com
www.booksunlimited.ie
www.eason.ie
www.amazon.co.uk
as ususal prices are displayed in Euro and Delivery estimated to give the most accurate price comparisons in Ireland I hope to add additional book websites in the future.
To view some example comparisons try the links below
As always comments welcome
I guess its a sign of the economic times … things have gone from bad to worse for zavvi there gone into administration some really good deals happening in store but looks like there website won’t be back in action anytime soon. So I’m removing their products from the pricefindr index.
For more details about what is happening with zavvi visit here.
zavvi.co.uk are currently not accepting orders online as they have been effected by woolworths going in administration full statement here. The product listings for zavvi will be out of date by a few days until they are back up online.
“As you may know, Woolworths plc and Entertainment UK Ltd have entered administration. Whilst zavvi is not part of either company, Entertainment UK Ltd is zavvi.co.uk’s main supplier.
Due to this ongoing situation we are currently unable to provide the high level of service we aim to deliver to our customers, and have temporarily suspended taking online orders until the supply situation is resolved”
Wow … where did that year go? Can’t believe its one year since I put pricefindr.ie live! I probably haven’t done all I had hoped in the year but as something that I do part time the prototype has really proved its worth. During the last few months I have not had enough time to add many new features and content as we’ve welcomed a new arrival into the family. But pricefindr.ie is very much alive and for the year ahead I hope to announce some cool new features and content. Also I intend to market and promote the site (this year’s effort was zero!) I think the real success for the year was the backend technology it has provided itself quite robust. Anyway onwards and upwards 
Just to let you know thehut.com has been added to the pricefindr.ie index.
In the past I have found them to have some real bargains on CDs, and DVDs their products should be appearing on the search results.
Well done to the recently announced winners of the Eircom Web Innovation Fund. The full list of winners can be found here. I submitted a entry and was lucky enough to make the shortlist all round it was a positive experince since it was the first time speaking to other parties about pricefindr. I have to say the my pitch skills need much improving!
The big album news from last week as been Coldplay’s new album release Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. Best priced I’ve found has been on bangcd.com for 8.90 Euro. Full price comparisons can be found here.
In other news cdwow.ie have updated there website I like the new look and feel definitely less cluttered. I have updated pricefindr to work with their new site. They really are showing signs of improvement I had gone off them for a while but recently any purchases I have made have gone smooth. Also the new site supports paying by Laser.
With the great weather the last while it’s been difficult to spend a lot of time indoors. But over the last week or so I have made some important changes to pricefindr. The first while not immediately visible to the end user is mostly around back end infrastructure. I have successfully moved the pricefindr infrastructure into the cloud. I’m using amazon’s EC2 services overall my first impressions of EC2 are excellent I was up an running in no time. Hopefully the back end improvements will allow for the expansion of the website into other verticals and give a better experience to the user. EC2 is a great offering and is a real enabler for startups etc. and allows you to focus on real innovation while giving you the tools to build a production ready application. Cloud computing is really taking hold as shown with Google’s arrival in the space with their Google app engine offering, although maybe not as flexible as amazon’s at a low level still shows momentum in this whole area.
These have been few and far between over the last while as I have been caught up with some other things. There are a couple of things I would like to do with the blog I need to do an upgrade of wordpress and do some other DNS changes to make it relate better to the main .ie domain. And more importantly try and get more regular updates going in relation to what is happening with the main site. So in that spirit just to let you know I have been doing some changes to the main pricefindr website that I hope to get released soon nothing major just some usability and navigational fixes etc. I’ll keep you posted.
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