March 21, 2007

Relaunch with new design for Vraagenaanbod.nl

The leading B2B marketplace for construction and light industry went live today with a new design from Rosetta. The database contains a variety of both advertising and editorial content including equipment for sale, services, real-time industry news, public tenders, bankruptcy notices, jobs, latest commodity prices, business focus specials ... and lots more!

Publisher Rob van Berkel: "Since we've been with Rosetta we have seen an enormous increase in visitors. This new optimised design is based on tracking data collected over the last 2 years."

www.vraagenaanbod.nl

March 15, 2007

100s of Dutch celebrities found on old school photos

A popular craze has developed since Schoolbank.nl opened searching inside photo tags: finding embarrassing/funny old school photos of Dutch celebrities. There are 100s of sports stars, actors, tv personalities, politicians are there. Ruud Gullit, Rutger Hauer, Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende... but, strangely, no Johan Cruijff yet.

Find your favourite Dutch celebrity here

February 14, 2007

Crushes on Schoolbank.nl

With love in the air on Valentines Day, Schoolbank.nl introduces a new version of the popular 'crushes' feature. Send your old flame some playful hints or a secret love message. If he/she guesses your identity correctly, your secret love message is revealed and you both receive the Email of Love .

February 6, 2007

Searching inside photo tags

The tagged class photos on Schoolbank.nl are now fully searchable. Just enter a name and discover old pictures of yourself, your friends, your boss or even your favourite Dutch stars. And since there are over 6 million tagged names in the photos, we've included the ability to narrow your search by year, town, etc.

January 29, 2007

STIR webmonitor 2006

Schoolbank.nl reaches 17,8% of all Dutch internet users. 

www.stir.nl

January 22, 2007

New photo galleries for Schoolbank.nl

Today we added 2 new 'gallery' pages of class photos and general photos on Schoolbank.nl With 1 million photos (!) it has become a unique archive. We are working on making them searchable, too.

• Gallery of general photos
• Gallery of interactive class photos

January 12, 2007

New year. New jobs site.

Jobs24 is a new website for Archant made by Rosetta. Last year we delivered real estate on the same platform for Archant. The jobs site allows powerful searching including clustering of results, integration of Google Maps and much more.

http://www.jobs24.co.uk

December 20, 2006

Top 200 sites

It's the time of year for awards, rankings, etc... the latest is the Top 200 Websites ranked by the Visiscan user panel of Multiscope. Schoolbank.nl is ranked 33 with 21,2% reach (2,6m unique visitors per month equivalent).

December 12, 2006

Website of the Year 2006

Schoolbank.nl was placed in the category 'education, government and non-profit' (huh?)

1. kennisnet.nl (25%)
2. schoolbank.nl (19%)
3. digid.nl (13%)

Thank you to everyone who voted for us! It's our third year at the awards (winners, 2004 and second place in 2005 and 2006) which makes us very proud. Congratulations also to the overall winner this year, Zylom Games.

www.websitevanhetjaar.nl

December 5, 2006

Schoolbank.nl upgrade

December 5 is a great day to upgrade a Dutch website because most people are busy with other things: it's the day that Dutch kids get their presents from Sinterklaas. So this was the day we picked for our upgrade of Schoolbank.nl, with a fresh new interface and many new features. The 'my news' page shows what's new from your friends and your schools. There are extended user profiles and photo features. Plus content blocks where the Schoolbank team posts 'editorial' material.

www.schoolbank.nl

November 9, 2006

The new TES is live today with Rosetta Web Services

The UK's leading weekly education newspaper goes live today with a stylish make-over and a new jobs site, powered by Rosetta Web Services. The jobs website is a central strategic element in the TES business. It is a joint implementation of Rosetta's new Services Oriented Architecture.

Programmers from TES and Rosetta worked together, in Amsterdam and London, to create the site in a few short months, re-building from scratch the website workflow, including centralised user registration, yet retaining the powerful underlying database developed by Rosetta for the earlier System 6 implementation of TES.

www.tesjobs.co.uk

November 9, 2006

"Classifieds could disappear from newspapers by 2020"

Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian newspaper, predicts that classified advertising will move away from newspapers completely in the coming years. Classified adverts from the Guardian print edition were declining by about 9% a year while internet advertising on Guardian Unlimited was growing by about 50% each year - but from a much lower base.  Read more

October 11, 2006

Boston Globe rolls out Real Estate with Rosetta

New England Media Group, publisher of the Boston Globe and Boston.com, has taken delivery of a new Real Estate ad-booking website from Rosetta. It is the second implementation of Rosetta’s technology at NEMG this year. Key benefits include WYSIWYG ad booking of newspaper ads, instant creation of verified PDF ad materials, accurate pricing of package combinations and complete self-service facilities that save production costs and simplify workflows.

http://boston.com

October 10, 2006

Archant launches Homes24.co.uk with Rosetta

The new Real Estate website from Rosetta shows houses for sale on Google maps, together with local schools, transport, hospitals and other POI (Points Of Interest).

Homes24.co.uk

September 29, 2006

Schoolbank brand recognition: 67,7%

A new survey from Multiscope reveals that strong brands score highly on Dutch internet. Read more (in Dutch)

July 26, 2006

Meet us at IFRA, Amsterdam

Rosetta will be at IFRA in Amsterdam, October 9-12. See demonstrations of recent projects and learn how our software helps publishers in Europe and North America do business more efficiently. If you prefer a private meeting during the exhibition, please contact us in advance.

July 4, 2006

42% reach for Schoolbank.nl

Research for the NextWeb Conference confirms Schoolbank.nl at the top of the social networking sites in the Netherlands.

• Schoolbank.nl 42%
• Hyves 17%
• Myspace.com 7%
• CU2.nl 6%

Read more (in Dutch)

June 20, 2006

New .NET platform for Schoolbank.nl

The Schoolbank-team has been hard at work over the past weeks and months creating the new .Net version, migrating the data (over 5 million records!), testing, tweaking, optimising and finally, on June 19, switching over to the new environment. With only a few hours down-time for the final migration and a smooth re-start, the upgrade was a great success.

New features include faster searching, photo cropping and rotation, better photo-tagging and extended profiles. More new features are planned for the coming months.

Internet classifieds growing 10 times faster than print

A survey of 159 newspapers, from 72 companies in 45 countries, found that online classified revenues grew 52% among the respondents, while print ad revenues grew 5.3%.

Read more

Service-oriented architecture

A pilot project has started with one of our customers to enable SOA implementation (web services) of Rosetta's platform.

May 16, 2006

Time capsule for school leavers

Imagine, 10 years from now, you receive an email out of the blue -- from yourself -- describing your life and your feelings 10 years ago! Schoolbank.nl today launches a new time capsule service, which stores your message for 1,5 or 10 years and sends it to you on your chosen date, for example your birthday, in the future.

They've thought about the little details, too... don't worry if you get a new email address before then, just go back any time to the website and enter your new address, so they know where to send it when the time comes!

May 8, 2006

Directory + classifieds

Canadian Yellow Pages Group buys Trader Canada, adding to its recent purchase of TMC in Ontario.

• YPG (Can) buys Trader Canada

May 2, 2006

UK regional newspaper group signs Rosetta

A large UK regional newspaper group has signed a Letter of Intent with Rosetta. The project begins with an extensive analysis of systems and foresees 3 websites for vertical market segments.

April 18, 2006

OECD broadband statistics

What is the percentage broadband in your country? (EU, USA, UK... all included in this OECD report)

Read more ...

Internet classifieds FAQ

Here at Rosetta we get a lot of questions about the future. Where are the trends taking us? How important is the local aspect of community? This article offers some answers.

Read more ...

April 4, 2006

Nexpo 2006

Our colleagues at MWaveMedia.com just got back from a busy week at the Nexpo event in Chicago where they demonstrated the great new advertising systems we implemented recently at the Boston Globe.

Mar 30, 2006

Google Local and Google Maps

As expected, businesses who advertise with Google Local now also show on Google Maps.

Read more at Cnet

Mar 29, 2006

UK: internet ads will overtake press next year

From the Guardian: "UK internet advertising reached 7.8% - double radio's market share - and is closing fast on national press revenues, which were worth £1.9bn last year. Worryingly for the press industry, online classified advertising grew 62.4% year-on-year in 2005, to £262.2m. The online classified growth was driven by advertising from the automotive and recruitment sectors, while the IAB reported that press revenues for classified advertising fell 5.1% last year. Recruitment advertising was worth 22.1% of the total UK market."

Read more at the Guardian

Mar 28, 2006

Boston.com and the Boston Globe launch with Rosetta

Powered by Rosetta, the new "For Sale" service links the Boston.com website advertising services with the Boston Globe for the first time.

Read more ...

Mar 23, 2006

Speurders.nl - ads cost 3 Euro

The online classifieds site from de Telegraaf announces it will charge for classified ads in 10 sections. 

Mar 7, 2006

Cruijff, the Queen and the Prime Minister on Schoolbank.nl!

Queen Beatrix, Johan Cruijff and J-P Balkenende feature in this clip from the popular TV show "de wereld draait door" on national Dutch television. They have all been to their school reunion.

broadband  modem  broadband  modem

Mar 7, 2006

Best newspaper blogs in the USA

Here's a Top 10 list of newspaper weblogs in the USA, judged on a range of criteria by students from NYU.

Feb 20, 2006

More books for Schoolbank.nl

Our publishers were so happy with the Schoolbank book "the 60s" that they have asked us to do it again. The new books will cover the 70s and 80s. Visitors to the Schoolbank.nl website are invited to contribute their personal stories, photos and other materials.

Dec 5, 2005

Job ads growing in the Netherlands

The number of jobs advertised in the Dutch market is growing, with 765,000 total in the Netherlands in the period Jan-Oct 2005, says Nielsen Media Research. This is the first growth in the last 4 years. 80% of ads were online, 14% in newspapers and 6% in the trade press.

Dec 2, 2005

Top 100 sites in the Netherlands 2005

Schoolbank.nl is number 23 in the Top 100 Dutch websites for 2005. That's a lower ranking than 2004 (13) but still a remarkable achievement for a website that changed its business model from free to paid content.

Speurders.nl, the new internet classifieds site from the Telegraaf newspaper jumped from number 99 to number 8 in just 1 year: a great score indeed and a positive sign for newspapers worldwide that a strong online product plus strong marketing can achieve real results.

Read more

Dec 1, 2005

Online classifieds up 80%

32 million adults use online classifieds in the USA, up 80% compared with last year, according to the Pew Internet Project. The study says that 22% of all adults who use the Internet say they visit classifieds on the Web.

Read more

November 30, 2005

TMC signs Rosetta for Canadian websites

Trader Media Corp (Canada) has signed with Rosetta for a web-based advertising system. The solution for TMC provides self-service ad-booking, automated ad-publishing, email alerts, photo ads, web-to-print and print-to-web integration plus other features. TMC is Ontario's largest publisher of photo classified advertising with 69 magazine titles and 11 websites.

http://www.trader.ca

November 29, 2005

Rosetta in Emerce Top 100

A survey of the Top 100 Dutch internet companies (2005) by Emerce magazine puts Rosetta at Number 4 in the e-commerce category and number 19 in the Top 20 overall. “Such a big vote from an audience of industry professionals means a great deal to us,” says Guy Spriggs, Managing Director. The survey asked readers of the Emerce magazine and website, mainly internet and marketing professionals, to rate companies on reliability, knowledge/know-how, quality of service and price. The survey was conducted by the Dutch market research company TNS Nipo. There were 1400 respondents in total.

Read more

November 10, 2005

Record visitors to newspaper websites

More than 47.3 million people visited US newspaper web sites in September, the most in any month since Nielsen//NetRatings began tracking online usage in January 2004 on behalf of the NAA. That's nearly a third (31.9%) of all Internet users, up from 40.9 million in the same period last year. Coverage of hurricanes Katrina and Rita could explain the peak.

http://www.naa.org/

November 2, 2005

Website van het jaar 2005

Schoolbank.nl has been nominated in the national Website of the Year awards, in the category Contact.

Update Dec 6: Schoolbank.nl came second, behind the e-cards site Kaartenhuis.nl. Thanks to everyone who voted for Schoolbank.nl and congratulations to the winner!

November 2, 2005

Newspapers need web developers

"Web developers can affect a newspaper’s operations in ways that you might not initially consider especially if those code-warriors have the capability and creativity..." (from Newspapers & Technology)

October 27, 2005

Vraag en Aanbod live on Rosetta

Rosetta's new B2B site for Uitgeverij Nassau is for the oldest classifieds publication in the Netherlands, Vraag en Aanbod (www.vraagenaanbod.nl). The site goes live today with Rosetta Hosted Services. A team from the paper has entered over 1300 ads into the system for existing print advertisers using Rosetta's innovative new proxy ads feature. This feature allows advertisers to choose self-service or full-service via the call center. Users of the site are mainly from the construction and light industry trades. Vraag en Aanbod was first published in paper form over 100 years ago.

Download PDF case study

October 21, 2005

The annual event for the European newspaper industry took place in Leipzig this year from Oct 17-20.

The Rosetta stand demonstrated all current Rosetta solutions and some new special features:

• self-service online classifieds with new proxy ads
• make me an offer
• local search and clustered search
• CAPS (commercial ad placement system)
• RSS feeds
• wysiwyg creation of PDF ads using templates inside your browser
• newspaper/magazine display ads, searchable and viewable online

October 13, 2005

SchoolBANK.nl top of class

This news comes from figures just released for the month of September 2005 by Multiscope, an independent research organisation. Multiscope performs panel-based audience measurement and market research.

www.multiscope.nl
www.schoolbank.nl

October 10, 2005

Loot.com: new design, new search engine

The new Loot.com site from Rosetta, which goes live today, is a multi-channel website allowing users to search ads using attributes which are relevant for each channel. The redesign shows Loot's commitment to better searching through enriched data on its website.  For this latest phase we integrated the Fast search engine, which works together with the Rosetta system to achieve entity extraction, sometimes called parseing. (This is where a computer reads the text and looks for items like make, model and year for a car, or number of bedrooms for a house.)

Traditionally, with Loot's ad booking systems for print, you get 250 characters of text and a classification and that's it. Now a user searching for cars can specify make, model, year, etc. If you search for a house you can select number of bedrooms, geographic location, etc.

Will users understand these new features and the changes in the UI? Will they turn back to browsing by classification? Is the humble keyword actually the preferred method after all? It will be fascinating to observe how site visitors use the new approach. 

Also new in this release is the CAPS booking system which allows Loot sales personnel to book ads live in real time for each channel on the website. These are not conventional classified ads but are sold for specific page positions inside each channel.

www.loot.com

October 6, 2005

Schoolbank.nl: the book

The new book "De jaren zestig van Schoolbank.nl" is a nostalgic delight for anyone who went to school in the Netherlands in the sixties. Based on the Schoolbank.nl website, it's a rich anthology of real-life memories and photos from users of the website. On sale in bookshops from 6 October.

Only €14,95 via Schoolbank.nl or at www.bol.com

To celebrate and promote the launch of our first book we've also made a complete reskin of the Schoolbank.nl website in the look and feel of the book. As far as we can find on the web, this appears to be the first time anyone did this.

August 1 2005

New customers in USA

June 20 2005

Epic 2014

Our US distribution partner Max Coebergh turned us on to this... it's actually from last year but if you work in the media, you'll enjoy it anyway.

In the year 2014 the New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?

A tongue-in-cheek prediction for the future of news.

June 18 2005

Uitgeverij Nassau signs with Rosetta

Uitgeverij Nassau has signed a letter of intent with Rosetta for a web-based advertising system. Based on Rosetta's System 6.3 platform, the solution for Nassau provides self-service ad-booking, automated ad-publishing, secure payment transactions, email alerts and other advanced features. The project will also deliver a powerful web-based facility for Nassau's own personnel to manage content.

Uitgeverij Nassau employs 80 people and is a daughter company of Wolters Kluwer. Nassau publishes a range of professional media products for vertical markets including light industry, construction, automotive, water transport, civil engineering and electronics.

www.uitgeverijnassau.nl

March 18 2005

Meet us at Nexpo, Dallas

A team from Rosetta and our USA distributors, MWaveMedia, invite you to view exciting new demonstrations of web-based advertising solutions on Stand 2158 at Nexpo. This year it's being held at the Dallas Convention Center from March 19-22. See www.nexpo.com for details.

March 1 2005

Rosetta is 10 years old

Ten years ago, back in 1995, Rosetta was founded in Amsterdam, a pioneer in internet software development. The first commercial company, possibly in the world, to offer commercial software for internet classifieds. Our first customer was Buysell.com in Vancouver, Canada, with 30,000 ads. Features included full text searching, browsing ads, online ad-booking for both web and print, dealer inventory ads, photo ads, user registration for personal memopad and email alerts... remember this was 1995. Checkout the old homepage at the Wayback Machine.

Today, Rosetta is a professional software company with international customers. Our tools, methodologies and techniques have been transformed over 10 years. But some things haven't changed. We're still a small, flexible, innovative team with some of the best minds in the business. We still focus on user-generated content. And we still work with the best media publishers in the world.

Thanks to everyone, all our users, staff and customers, who helped us build the amazing success story that Rosetta became.

March 10, 2005

The Future of Internet Classifieds seminar, Amsterdam

Now in its third year, our seminar welcomed 40 marketing managers, publishers and marketplace experts to Amsterdam on March 10, 2005. Rosetta organises the seminar jointly with INMA (the International Newspaper Marketing Association). This year's keynote speaker was Bob Cauthorn (USA) describing the impact of Craigslist on the American classified market. Other speakers included Xavier Verellen (Persgroep, Belgium), Paul Molenaar (Ilsemedia, Netherlands), Maurice Pothof (Google, Netherlands), Kaisa Ala-Laurila (Keltainen Pörssi, Finland), John Hampson (Newbury Weekly News, UK), George Deedes (Daily Mail, UK), Guy Spriggs (Rosetta, Netherlands).

The presentations are available from Rosetta (please contact us).

February 14 2005

SchoolBANK-Plus launch combined with new features

The leading Dutch site for finding old friends introduces a new account and many extra features to make it even easier to find people, in a safe and secure environment where user privacy is a priority.

• Improved editing tools for text and images -- monitor thousands of submissions per day
• E-cards
• Forums
• Extended RSS feeds
• National radio "60s week" promotion with Radio 2

The site was recently voted Website of the Year and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate: nearly 100.000 new registrations in January alone!

http://www.schoolbank.nl

January 4 2005

Sacunion is live

The Sacramento Union (USA) kicks off the new year and Rosetta's new North American ASP solution for classifieds publishers in style. This classified marketplace site integrates seamlessly with the main editorial news/magazine site and allows users to search for and book ads quickly and simply. Advertisers can create, edit, renew and cancel their ads 24 hours a day using the site. Advertisers can book ads for online, print or both, including cross-selling to 3 other publications and a simple but secure online payment method.

http://www.classified.sacunion.com

8 December 2004

More awards for Schoolbank.nl

At a packed ceremony in Amsterdam at the Hotel Arena, Schoolbank.nl received the award for Website of the Year 2004 in the category Contact. This is the biggest public award in the Netherlands. This year nearly 300 thousand votes were received for sites in 10 categories, and Schoolbank.nl won the award with an incredible 48% of the votes in its category. www.websitevanhetjaar.nl 

And following the recent Coolest Company award for Rosetta (see below), readers of Carp magazine also voted the Schoolbank.nl website as their Number 1 favourite website for the year. Schoolbank.nl beat Google into first place.  More info: www.carp.nl 

Thank you to everyone who voted for Schoolbank.nl. We're very proud of these awards and the tremendous public support!

  3 December 2004 

Schoolbank.nl in Top 20 Sites 2004

The annual list of Top 20 Sites in the Netherlands for 2004 shows again the highly impressive rise of SchoolBANK.nl. 

Ranked at number 13 overall for the year 2004, SchoolBANK.nl is one of only 3 new entries in the Top 20 list. 

The Top 20 list is published by Multiscope, an independent market research organisation which charts the reach and traffic of large Dutch sites throughout the year and compiles an annual ranking from this data. Multiscope statistics are gained from a panel of 1500 families in the Netherlands.

Multiscope singled out SchoolBANK.nl for "considerable growth this year and a consistent 30% reach over the last months." 

Source: Multiscope

26 November 2004 

Rosetta Wins Coolest Company Award

With pride and big smiles, Rosetta received the Carp's Coolest Companies Award for 2004 at a packed ceremony in Amsterdam's Mercurius cafe on Thursday November 25. The Public's Award went to Rosetta and the Jury Award went to Fox-IT, an internet security firm. Rosetta was on the shortlist for the second year running. The Coolest Company Award, now in its 5th year, is for Dutch companies who show innovation, staying power, unique products/services and where personnel are actively involved in company objectives. 

Thank you to everyone who voted for us - according to the editor of Carp magazine, Rosetta was "head and shoulders" above the other companies competing for the Public's Award, with an amazing 39% of the 12000 votes received! 

www.carp.nl 

29 October 2004

Website of the Year 

Three (yes, three!) Rosetta sites have been nominated in the Dutch Website Of The Year awards. We're blushing. 

In the category for best "contacts" site, both Schoolbank.nl and Dienstmakkers.nl received a nomination, and in the classifieds section, our new classifieds site, Spullenbank.nl. 

Update 8 December: we won!

14 October 2004 

IFRA Amsterdam, October 11-14

Rosetta enjoyed a great week at IFRA with many new visitors and lots of old friends from the industry too. It was an exciting week! 

Mr. Jacco de Vries, salesman with Rotagraphic, was the lucky winner of the Rosetta bike giveaway, and he is pictured below (photo from the IFRA.com Moblog). It's a very cool "black cruiser" from Phat Cycles.

The Rosetta stand buzzed for 4 days, and visitors saw demonstrations of Rosetta's recent work for newspaper clients including complete solutions for browser-based classified advertising, both ad booking and ad publishing, plus dynamic PDF creation, AdsML 2.0 and cross-media publishing. 

3/10/2004 

Relaunch of Loot.com

The UK's leading classifieds marketplace, Loot, re-launches today with a major re-design of both the newspaper and website, Loot.com. The website is powered by Rosetta. 

A key element of the strategic re-design is to offer best-of-breed features on the web. For the first time, new ads on the website are free to view, a completely new model for Loot. Also new are better personalisation, improved photo ads and priority listings -- all features designed to help customers to sell their items faster online. For buyers, there's an improved search engine with integrated email/SMS alerts. Loot TXT is a new mobile classifieds service using SMS messages. Customers can place ads via SMS and receive automatic SMS alerts when the items they are looking for are advertised on Loot.com. 

Claire Payne, Loot Managing Director, said: "Loot is a hugely well-loved and respected brand in the UK and the changes, which are in response to consumer needs, will further cement Loot's position as the leading marketplace for buying and selling locally."

www.loot.com  

27/9/2004 

Sacunion signs up for ASP solution

The Sacramento Union (www.sacunion.com) has signed a letter of intent to purchase a web classifieds booking and publishing system from Rosetta. Rosetta's North American distribution partners, MWaveMedia, are currently working with Sacunion to finalise requirements. The deal marks the first sale of Rosetta's new ASP classifieds services in the United States. 

More information: www.mwavemedia.com 

19/9/2004 

Rosetta sites in Top 20 

Figures released today by Multiscope (www.multiscope.nl) reveal the sustained growth of Rosetta's web publishing activities in the Netherlands. At number 12 in the overall list of Dutch websites, Schoolbank.nl is the biggest independent website in the chart. And Rosetta's classifieds website, Spullenbank.nl, is now number 6 in the ranking of marketplace sites - not bad for a site that launched only 4 months before the chart was published!

4/8/2004 

Schoolbank on national TV

Schoolbank.nl featured in the television show, NOVA, on 4 August. 

A team from Holland's leading current affairs TV programme interviewed participants at a school reunion, saw old friends meeting up at Schiphol airport and heard how two former school sweethearts have got back together after 40 years. 

You can see the show here via omroep.nl (8 mins, Dutch)

22/7/2004 

Extended RSS feeds 

Spullenbank.nl, the well-known Dutch classifieds website, now offers extended RSS feeds, as follows:

• SpullenBANK RSS
  (latest 10 ads, all regions)
• Regional feeds example: postcode 3500

The RSS data feeds are freely available for copying to your website (note, the ads are in Dutch). To create a regional feed, all you need is the first 4 digits of a Dutch postcode, and Spullenbank.nl will serve the latest 10 ads from your neighbourhood.

Create a localised feed here. 

15/7/2004 

Faster Distributed Searching (Meta-Search)

Rosetta today announced a new feature for websites powered by Rosetta System 6: Synchronous Distributed Searching. Now website users can perform a single meta-search across multiple sites and get the results seamlessly merged into a single page. 

The technique is thus ideally suited for any website publishers who wish to integrate the results of a dynamic query from external sites into their own pages, in real time. 

Examples: 

• search 2 million personal records in 3 different sites in seconds
• autos websites can combine classifieds and reviews in real time
• comparison-shopping and catalog services

For more information, contact Rosetta. 

3/7/2004 

More Intelligent Targeting™

Rosetta today announced a further extension of its Intelligent Targeting service. Intelligent Targeting improves the value and effectiveness of online advertising by targeting ads to users. It's based on a real time XML data exchange between different websites. Users of the leading Dutch website SchoolBANK.nl (2m registrations) now automatically receive a selection of local classified ads from the website SpullenBANK.nl. The targeting is fully automatic and dynamically selects the latest 10 ads from a user's neighbourhood. 

For more information, contact Rosetta.  

25/06/2004 

NEXPO 2004: right products at the right time

Rosetta enjoyed a highly successful Nexpo event, with many new USA contacts coming to see demonstrations of Rosetta products. Rosetta's internet classified management systems were the main attraction at MWave Media's booth, which buzzed with visitors during the 4-day event. Mwave's Max Coebergh: "This was a great show for us. Clearly we're offering the right products in this market at the right time." 

www.mwavemedia.com 
www.nexpo.com 

18/06/2004 

Intelligent Targeting™ on Vakanties.nl 

In a combined announcement on the eve of Nexpo, Rosetta today announced an innovative new advertising technique and a new customer. The technique, called Intelligent Targeting, involves live targeting of travel and holiday offers to users of the website SchoolBANK.nl. The leading travel site Vakanties.nl has entered a 1-year contract with Rosetta for the new Intelligent Targeting ad service.

SchoolBANK visitors now receive targeted travel offers based on their age group. A simple XML exchange takes place over the internet in real time between Schoolbank.nl and Vakanties.nl each time a page is loaded. This real-time XML data exchange has 3 major benefits:

• real time: lowest prices and guaranteed availability
• targeting: cheap flights to London or family holidays in Turkey, for example, based on the age group of the user
• efficiency: quicker for the user, more efficient for the advertiser

"Intelligent Targeting is better for us than traditional banners because it lets us serve relevant, real-time content directly from our inventory," said a spokesman for Vakanties.nl.

http://vakanties.schoolbank.nl 

14/06/2004 

Meet us at NEXPO

We're showing exciting new solutions for internet classifieds at the NAA Nexpo event in Washington DC, June 19-22. You can see new browser-based ad booking systems with real-time PDF creation (100% WYSIWYG), automated workflows including customer approval, high-speed publishing and XML integration. 

Plus: learn more about our ongoing work with AdsML and our new Intelligent Targeting (TM).

We look forward to meeting you at booth #2268.

www.nexpo.com 

5/06/2004 

Rendez-vous à Bischenberg le 10 et 11 juin

Rosetta présente une intervention au séminaire INMA à Bischenberg, France, le 10 et 11 juin. Une centaine de délégués assiste au séminaire pendant deux jours.

www.inma.org 

28/05/2004

SchoolBANK.nl is the no. 5 Dutch website!

The rise and rise of this hugely popular website continues... now number 5 in the list of Top 500 Dutch websites, according to figures published by Alexa.com. 

www.schoolbank.nl 

23/05/2004

A new player in the Dutch classified marketplace

SpullenBANK.nl, Rosetta's new classifieds site, shows impressive growth even before it's out of beta! With over 5000 classified ads in its first month, Rosetta's new site is the latest step in Rosetta's strategic expansion in the Dutch market. Watch this space! 

www.spullenbank.nl 

7/05/2004

Rosetta at ICMA (formerly FAPIA) 

An international audience of senior classified advertising executives attended the General Meeting of the ICMA (International Classified Media Association) in The Hague, on Friday 7 May. Rosetta's Marcel Dumont presented a case study of Rosetta's successful website for Loot.com. ICMA delegates learned how automated upselling techniques are dramatically improving both internet service and revenues from classified ads.

www.icmaonline.org

3/05/2004

SchoolBANK.nl enters Top 10 

Rosetta's hugely popular website for finding old school friends has jumped to Number 9 in the Top 500 Dutch websites, according to figures published by Alexa.com. 

SchoolBANK.nl is the only new site to enter the Dutch Top 10 this year. The site is now one of the biggest consumer sites on the Dutch internet and has achieved this elevated position in just 2 years, since its launch in May 2002. 

www.schoolbank.nl 
www.alexa.com 

23/04/2004

Record-breaking 690 tabloid pages of jobs

The Times Educational Supplement (TES) today set a new world record for the biggest-ever tabloid classifieds section, with 690 pages of recruitment advertising -- over 9000 jobs in a single newspaper edition!

The website that publishes the jobs for TES is powered by Rosetta and continued serving pages at fast speeds throughout the huge surge in traffic, without any problems. The TES offers jobs for school teachers in the UK and abroad: most schools advertise their jobs in the Spring or Autumn, which explains the extreme seasonal peaks experienced by the TES newspaper and its website.

www.tesjobs.co.uk  

13/04/2004

SpullenBANK.nl goes live on web and i-mode mobile platform

Rosetta's latest site for the Dutch market is a new classified advertising site for buying and selling. Built on Rosetta's System 6 platform, the site features many technical innovations:

• re-skinnable interface 
• XML RSS feeds
• imode platform for mobile phones
• super-fast searching and sorting  
• a new technique that places classifieds inside a banner for serving on other sites

The site is currently on beta version 0.2 

www.spullenbank.nl 

16/03/2004

Mwave Media and Rosetta sign distribution agreement for USA

mWave Media, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts (USA) will distribute Rosetta’s products in North America. “Rosetta is looking to expand its business in North America” said Guy Spriggs of Rosetta, “and we found an excellent, industry-savvy partner in mWave Media whose focus is marketing and distributing Web and mobile solutions.”

mWave Media, Inc. delivers value added services, technologies, and solutions to media partners worldwide. “Our mission is to enable our clients and their customers to take advantage of the latest Web and mobile technological innovations, which provide the platforms to conduct business in a fast, flexible, and convenient manner in today’s ‘on demand’ world," explains Max Coebergh, Managing Partner of mWave Media, Inc. “Each of our solutions is tailored to help maximize the opportunity to reach new customers, capture new revenue streams, increase profits, all while building customer loyalty every step of the way. Rosetta can do that, they have the products, the innovative thinking, and the tools to create solutions in multiple vertical markets.”

mWave Media, Inc. was founded in 2003 to provide innovative Internet and Wireless solutions to the publishing and advertising industry. Their global contacts enable them to provide, install, and service solutions that otherwise would have to be developed in-house at a higher cost of ownership. mWave Media, Inc. offers customers a unique blend of innovation, technology, and consulting services based on their extensive experience in the publishing system solutions.

mWave Media, Inc
45 Bradfield Ave, Boston , MA 02131
Tel:  617.571.6967
Email: info@mwavemedia.com

Visit site: www.mwavemedia.com 

17/03/2004

"A critical time for the classifieds industry"

60 publishing executives and newspaper industry speakers gathered in Amsterdam for the 2004 INMA-Rosetta workshop on the future of classifieds. "It's a critical time for the classifieds industry", said Danny Meadows-Klue, one of the 20 speakers during the 2 days. 

06/03/2004

workmates.nl goes live

Everyone kept asking - when are you going to make a site like SchoolBANK, to put people in touch with former colleagues? Well, now it's here: www.workmates.nl goes live today. The site works the same as SchoolBANK and Dienstmakkers, and users of those sites can copy their user account over with a single click. 

03/03/2004

New report: Online Classifieds

"[...] due to the changing attitudes among newspaper groups, particularly regional newspapers, [we] are likely to see rapid growth in this area over the next few years."

Click here for more extracts 

The EPS Focus Report Classifieds Online is available from the EPS website at www.epsltd.com

19/02/2004

Social software workshop 

Dating, matching, networking, condolances, making new friends and finding old friends... increasingly, the first contact is online. Investors are pumping funds into these sites in the USA. Hype or promising new trend? Guest speakers at this IPAN event include the publisher of SchoolBANK.nl. 

Amsterdam, Tues 2 March, 20.30. 
For program details etc: kijk hier (Dutch language)

16/2/2004

SchoolBANK wins Santé Easy Living award 2004 The popular women's magazine Santé has selected the Rosetta site, SchoolBANK.nl, as winner of its Easy Living award in the category Services.  www.schoolbank.nl

26/1/2004

Irish Independent goes live with Rosetta

Independent Newspapers Ireland Ltd today launches its new web-to-print booking service for the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Evening Herald newspapers. Using the new system which was created by Rosetta, 100s of agencies and customers can now create, preview and book their newspaper ads online, 24 hours a day, using an internet browser. Features include real-time pricing and PDF generation for true WYSIWYG previews, a single invoice for multiple bookings. Rosetta also provided a  time-saving email system so that agencies can easily manage customer approvals within the booking flow. For more information or a demonstration please contact Rosetta 

30/12/2003

Top 20 here we come!   

SchoolBANK.nl, the Dutch website for finding old schoolfriends, is one of the hottest internet success stories of 2003. It's less than 2 years since the launch and the site is already at number 21 in the list of most-visited websites in the Netherlands (Multiscope, Nov 2003)

www.schoolbank.nl 

4/12/2003

The future of classifieds, Amsterdam, March 16-17 2004

After the success of last year's event we're doing it again, but bigger! Rosetta and INMA are organising another great seminar for online classified publishers, again in Amsterdam's historic centre. This year it's a 2-day event (actually, 1½ days) with the title The Future Of Classifieds and speakers from 5 countries including international leaders in this field.

12/11/2003

1.000.000 registrations at SchoolBANK.nl

The record-breaking Dutch website, SchoolBANK.nl, today passed 1 million user registrations! In just over 1 year this deceptively simple site has come from nowhere to challenge the top ranking sites ... 

Read more...

5/11/2003

Top 25 coolest companies

Thank you to all our customers who voted for us! Rosetta today joins an elite group of 25 innovative companies in the Dutch coolest company 2003 list published by Carp magazine.

Criteria:

• The company is innovative, original
• The company offers unique products/services in its market
• The company is at least 1 year old
• The company employs at least 10 people
• Personnel are actively involved in company objectives

Read more (in Dutch)...

2/11/2003

The new Loot.com is another Rosetta upgrade

The UK's No.1 classifieds website is powered by Rosetta. A combined team from Loot and Rosetta have been working behind the scenes, migrating all data from the old system, converting to XML, and introducing 100s of improvements to the site's performance, features and interface. There's lots more planned in the coming months... watch this space!

31/10/2003

coolest company 2003?

Rosetta is among 100 of the Netherlands' most innovative companies in the coolest company 2003 list published by Carp magazine.

30/10/2003

New: sms live to schoolbank.nl

Looking for an old friend? Send your message live to the schoolbank website

1. Text  "GO SCHOOL [enter your text here]" to 4999
2. Your message appears instantly on www.schoolbank.nl
   
   example:
   
   GO SCHOOL Alvin Manson, where are you?  Please call Maria at home!
   
   appears on the site as:
   
   Alvin Manson, where are you?  Please call Maria at home!

12/10/2003

AdsML: Rosetta shows the world's first implementation of the new XML standard for advertising systems at IFRA's annual expo event in Leipzig.

10/10/2003

Independent Newspapers Ireland choose Rosetta for new online ad booking system. The system will enable agencies and customers to book ads in Irish newspapers via an easy-to-use web interface.

01/09/2003

Bugfile™ 
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