The birth of an international company

ZiTYZEN is now officially an international company!!!
Cool stuff...

We expanded to Norway, beginning with 7.403 places.

I must admit that we came across a few surprises in the process: We thought Denmark and Norway were much more similar, than they actually were. (Still they were very similar)

The biggest surprise is that in Denmark every place has it's own address on a street with a streetnumber, this is not the case in Norway! A given place can have only a zipcode and a name, e.g. Jotums Farm, 8056 Saltstraumen. As one can imagine the yields problems when trying to find lat/long coordinates for Google Maps.

We've set Google Adsense, such that we can track which country each click comes from. This is done using channels, we've created ads for each country and put them the channels "Denmark" & "Norway" respectively.

We still need to to a few things in order for this to be fully finished, e.g. translate ZiTYZEN to Norwegian, and creating Norwegian sitemaps for Google. But now Google can start indexing our Norwegian places :-)