Seasonal Guides

With this 2011 New Year’s Eve Guide we have begun a new tradition...making it quick and easy for our users to get a snapshot of what's going on around town. This new service of creating 49st Guides helps not only our users, but those people who visit our partner sites (see this NYE Guide as an example).

So far, we've received great feedback from our users. The event organizers are pleased too, since our guide is receiving a lot of traffic. Feel free to suggest events to be included in out NYE Guide.

New Year Decorations on 49st

Have you seen all those Holiday decorations on the streets? Millions of lights and hundreds of christmas trees, wreaths on every door, Santa or two in any Mall. Well, now your christmas mood will rise on 49st too with special holiday design.

Error 404 Page Design

Check this out! We had some fun with 404 Page design.
Now if your road goes nowhere, you will be warned with a Dead End sign and get some basic direction.

Check it live: say, search 49st for the meaning of life.
Hope this will inspire you.

49st Error 404 Page Design

New Spotlight Feature in 49st Newsletter

We added a new spotlight feature to 49st Newsletter which highlights the premium event of upcoming week. We are proud to start with remembering the sacrifices of war time, and reminding you about the official events coming tomorrow all over the country.

If you are not yet subscribed to 49st Newsletter, you can do that from any page of 49st

Haunted home page

We wish you a Happy Halloween and wish you to find your holiday event easily.

Toronto Zombie Walk

You don't want to hate yourself because of missing a Zombie Walk this year, especially if you haven't ever visit one, eh?

Toronto Zombie Walk - http://www.torontozombiewalk.ca
Oct. 23, 3:00pm-6:00pm (approx.)
Starts at Trinity Bellwoods Park





This will be the 8th annual T.O. Zombie Walk! Last year nearly 6000 corpses writhed, weaved and lurched their way through the streets of Toronto feasting on the brains of those unlucky enough to be living. This year it starts at Trinity Bellwoods Park and ends at Christie Pitts Park. Come out as a zombie and mingle with the macabre or just to take pics of the undead. Tonnes of fun. Trust.
(all images are from the Official Toronto Zombie Walk website photostream).


http://www.49st.com/event/zombie-walk

Party In The Square

Party in the Square celebrates the Grand Opening of Maple Leaf Square - Toronto's new global entertainment destination (located outside the Air Canada Centre / ACC @ 15 York St.).


The event takes place over three days:
WED, OCT 6 - GRAND OPENING CEREMONIES
THURS, OCT 7 - LEAFS HOME OPENER TAILGATE
SAT, OCT 9 - LEAFS MOLSON CANADIAN RIVALRY TAILGATE

The 'Square' is comprised of 7 locations; Hotel Le Germain, Air Canada Centre, Real Sports Bar, e11even, Real Sports Apparel, Longo's and CI Financial.

There is no cost to this event.

Adding Events is as Easy as 1-2-3!

Every autumn it’s nice to reflect on summer and what you did. Well, we’ll always remember this one as a summer we made events and business listings submissions easier than ever before. Now when you submit your event on 49st you don’t need spend time editing content, browsing our system or reading documentation. You probably don’t event need to add it!

Why is that?

Simply visit our ‘add content’ page and start typing your listing name. If it already exists (which is likely) then just “claim” and “verify” the information.

Here’s an example for the sample event “Spirit of the Dance”:

We made this process as simple as current industry standards offer.

But these are not all the improvement we have. When you take ‘ownership’ or create a new listing, you now have the opportunity the promote your listing to increase awareness and help spread-the-word.

Here’s how our new promote feature works (again for the sample event “Spirit of the Dance”):

And yes, you couldn’t help but notice that we accept online payments now. We selected Paypal since it is secure and a well recognized brand. Now you can order a promotion campaign tonight and have it up-and-running tomorrow.

So, where’s the benefit to you?

You’re right, we are so happy with these new promotional features that will gladly give you a discount of one free Newsletter or Featured listing (valued at $49). Just visit our store with the promo code “doubletheexposure” and, get one promotion free.

VB Beer Launches in Ontario!

Australia's #1 selling beer has finally arrived in Ontario.

VB is Australia's highest selling beer and has been for more than 20 years. VB Beer is a premium lager made using the finest hops.

Lager or Bitter?

Despite its name, (Victoria Bitter) it's technically a fairly standard commercial later rather than a bitter.

How Strong is it?

Originally available at a strenght of 4.9% ABV, VB is now sold at an ABV of 4.6% (which is equal to virtually every other major Australian lager).

VB is being rolled-out across venues in Ontario. Visit the VB Microsite to find out which local pubs you can taste this new and exciting beer.

Fairs, Festivals, Plays and more…

Today’s 49st newsletter features a variety of fairs, festivals and plays, taking place over the next two weeks. For other things to do (including concerts and sporting events) and places to go (including restaurants) please visit our site.

To keep up-to-date on “what’s going on” in your City, register for our newsletter.

Some feature promotions at your neighbourhood pub this week are:

• $3 Caesars @ The Pour House
• Live Music Thursday's @ Ned Devine's
  
• $5 Guinness & Complimentary Oysters @ Watermark
  

Want to promote your event or venue? Contact us for more information.

Summit Weekend

Toronto is a busy City over the next several days!

With the G8 and G20 summits taking place you may have to take an alternate route to get to our favorite events and venues. Here's a sampling of some popular events (and restaurants) going on in Toronto.

• Pride Week including a performance by Cyndi Lauper
• Toronto Jazz Festival
• Nyood Bar & Restaurant
• Lucien Restaurant
  

You can search our site for other happenings, such as Summerlicious where reservations begin today.

To keep up-to-date on "what's going on" in your City, register for our newsletter.

We're Hiring

We're growing here at 49st and to support demand from local businesses (event-driven venues such as bars, nightclubs, lounges, restaurants and others) we are hiring sales representatives at our Toronto office.

If you're passionate about selling online advertising, looking to contribute to an entrepreneurial company in one of the fastest growing industries (local search) and are committed to performance we'd like to hear from you!

Check out the job post.

Summerlicious - Toronto

Now in its eighth year, Summerlicious celebrates Toronto’s restaurant industry and provides the perfect opportunity for foodies to sample the best of the city’s eclectic cuisine.


Take advantage of the incredible value and exclusive prix fixe menus offered at 150 of Toronto’s top dining establishments!

Menus are available at lunch and dinner at three price points ranging from $15 to $45. Reservations will be accepted starting June 24th.

Click here for more information about this event.
For a list of participating restaurants click here.

Happy Father’s Day

We keep working on the best search experience and now glad to present new cool location search style with improved category search: we felt that searching among events and features is a bit confusing for our users so what we did is an addition to the search field with search database label so that you always mind what type of content you request.

Besides we are proud still keeping our course using CSS3 effects everywhere we can bypass using images so that your search result pages opened in less than no time.

With this family holiday we start a new tradition at 49st preparing best search ideas about holidays time passing. We analyze traditions and variety of events and places to go and give you few sharpest listings on the 49st landing page. And of course we'll try to make a holiday mood for you with some fabulous design.

Happy coming Father’s Day gentlemen.

Enable Safari 5 Reader

We like to trim sails to the wind here in 49st Technologies and as soon as Apple announced some new outstanding features in new version of their Safari browser we could not resist to add some new stuff to keep our site among the most modern events and places search engines in US and Canada so the first thing we did we enabled their new Reader view mode on the events and venues details pages.

To use Reader you need to go to any event or venue page that has significant description length, for instance, the Osgoode Hall page. When the page is loaded and you see Reader label in your address bar, click on it to read venue description in a better way.

Even more! We enabled this feature in this blog too, just look up!


What Is Safari Reader?
Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story. It works like this: As you browse the web, Safari detects if you’re on a web page with an article. Click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field, and the article appears instantly in one continuous, clutter-free view. You see every page of the article — whether two or twenty. Onscreen controls let you email, print, and zoom. Change the size of the text, and Safari remembers it the next time you view an article in Safari Reader.


How to Enable Safari Reader on Your Site?
In order to enable Reader feature at any site you need your page to satisfy 3 easy conditions:

1. Add <article></article> tag around your content. This is new to HTML5 tag so don’t be afraid if your editor doesn’t highlight its syntax.
2. Make sure you content is well structured: you must use <H1>—<H6> header tags for titles and <P> for content.
3. And finally make sure your article is long enough. The point is that Safari disables Reader for content shorter than 1500 symbols. Also make sure each paragraph contains at least 100 symbols i.e. they have reasonable length for easy reading.

Reader doesn't require RSS to be set at your site, so don't worry if you don't have it.

Face Lifting

What 49st was missing before is an accent on search. So the first change we started with was a new search interface. Not simply a search box with suggestions but a tool which gives you ideas about your time passing. Now we are going to keep the landing page always in touch by giving you new search ideas, upcoming holidays related searches and most popular event right in first seconds of your web surfing.

No matter we have just released this new page, we already can't wait showing you new improvements we prepared for it.

A Big Construction on 49st

We start broadcasting from the 49st which starts in downtown of Toronto and longs even further than Yonge.

These days we were working hard on changing the way you organize your leisure and local business among all the events and venues in your city. So now we start implementing and releasing these changes step by step so that you could find more and faster day to day.