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Rosetta is a Dutch limited
company, founded in 1995 and since May 2007 part of ilse media groep, the
leading Dutch publishers of successful online websites including ilse.nl,
Startpagina.nl, Nu.nl and Web-log.nl. Rosetta's management team includes professionals from both publishing and software development
backgrounds.
Since the company’s start we have focused on
database-driven internet classifieds, job sites and other matching
applications. Schoolbank.nl, our matching site for old school friends in the Netherlands,
was launched in 2002 and is
the largest and best-known website of its kind in the Netherlands.
Rosetta’s experienced team of software professionals
includes programmers, designers and business consultants with wide experience of
Web-based technologies, as well as integration with third party databases and
other systems in order to facilitate data exchange throughout the enterprise.
Pushing the envelope
Since 1995, Rosetta has invested
in constant R&D, leading the industry in technological improvements and
application of best practices.
Some milestones and industry firsts:
- 1995: first database-driven
website for a free-ads paper including full text searching, automatic
email alerts and web-to-print reverse publishing (Buysell.com)
- 1996: first jobs website for a UK
newspaper (the Guardian)
- 1997: the Times Educational
Supplement goes live with Rosetta -- still a customer today, now
with 3 sites.
- 1999: first WAP classifieds
service
- 2000: System 6.0 is a complete XML-based
advertising system including Ajax backend admin tools
- 2002: founder member, AdsML
- 2002: SMS alerts, SMS ad
searching, SMS ad booking
- 2003: first AdsML
implementation
- 2004: first classifieds website on
imode (Spullenbank.nl)
- 2004: first use of RSS for
intelligent targeting of ads (Schoolbank.nl)
- 2004: first WYSIWYG web app for
self-service bookings of newspaper lineage and semidisplay ads (Independent.ie)
- 2006: first US newspaper/website
combination to offer WYSIWYG ad bookings including photos, real-time
pricing, centralised login and self-service ad management over the web
(Boston Globe and Boston.com)
- 2006: Integration of Google
Maps in online classifieds
- 2007: Rosetta Holding BV
acquired by ilse media groep bv
Awards
Among several awards over the
years, we're particularly proud of the Coolest Company Award from
Carp magazine (really!)
- Emerce Top 100, 2005
- Website of the Year, 2006
(runner-up)
- Website of the Year, 2005
(runner-up)
- Website of the Year, 2004
- Carp Readers' Website of the
Year, 2004
- Coolest Company of the Year,
2004
- Dutch websites traffic rank
13, 2004
Directions to Amsterdam office
Rosetta is
located 5 minutes walk from Amsterdam Central Station (see map below).
Amsterdam Central Station (Train)
Rosetta Office
Prins
Hendrikkade 164, 1011TB Amsterdam
Tel +31 20 421 2136
From Schiphol airport:
a taxi costs
approximately Euro 60 and takes 30 minutes. You can
also take the train direct from underneath Schiphol
airport to central station; trains leave Schiphol
every 15 minutes, the journey is 15 minutes, and the
cost is only 8 Euro.
By car: you can get
driving directions from anywhere in Europe to our
office (postcode 1011 TB) at these websites:
locatienet.nl
(in Dutch)
map24.com (in English)
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