xelago to Participate in the First Mass Innovation Night

xelago has the wonderful opportunity to be part of the first Mass Innovation Night, being held on April 8th at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation. We are very excited for this event that will showcase new, innovative products from Massachusetts!

Here's a little description they sent us:
"Mass Innovation Nights are a series of events designed to harness thepower of social media to showcase Massachusetts-based innovation with amonthly event (a launch party if you will) at the Charles River Museum ofIndustry and Innovation in Waltham, 154 Moody Street in Waltham, MA (www.crmi.org).
It's all a grand experiment at this stage but the idea is that this willfunction like CES or DEMO. We will be showing real products that people can buy -- not just concepts. The live events will function as a networking party. It will be free to all but we do ask that people use their favorite social media tools to tell others about the cool products they see. Think of it as Karmic Marketing."

We'd love it if any of our users/fans came and supported us. It should be a good time to see some other cool new products, too.

For more information about the Mass Innovation Nights, click here.

Two new features added: Cafes and Recent Friend Activity

We've added two new features to xelago in the past 24 hours.

First, we added a new category for places: cafes.

Cafes are often different than regular restaurants and users suggested that they look for something different when they need a place to study, hang out or read. Hopefully everything has been recoded correctly, but if you do see something that has been miscoded, please suggest a change through the site (you can click on the little pencil icon on the place's listing).

Second, we've added a cool new way to view what your friends are doing: Recent Friend Activity.

Recent Friend Activity shows up on the right side of your home page and shows all the reviews and ratings that your friends have made. It also is a new page within the Friends tab, and this shows a more expanded view of your friends ratings and reviews.

Hope you enjoy the new features. If you have any feedback, you can comment on this post, post it to our page on Facebook, or email us at info@xelago.com.

Welcome to the xelago blog!

Hi! Welcome to the xelago.com blog.

We're hoping to use this space for updates, press, and other general newsworthy things that happen with xelago. We also have a page on Facebook, so you can become a xelago fan on Facebook!

We launched xelago to a limited number of people about a week ago, and are hoping for many more people to join so they can discover new things to do in Boston! Feel free to invite your friends using our contact importer (Go to the Friends tab and click on Find and Invite Friends). The importer supports Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail right now, though you can manually invite friends by typing their email addresses into the Search and Invite box.

Boston is our only city right now, and it will probably stay that way until we have some money to hire someone to help us expand to New York or San Francisco. But in the meantime, enjoy the site and get back to rating more places and events!