Thanks Regards,

Shaik Saleem

We’ve heard from many of you that browser support is an important issue. To that end, as the article mentioned, we’ll be adding IE 6 support in our upcoming release. Of course we could enable IE 6 users to access the site today, but we want to make sure the experience is as good as possible…meaning we want to make sure each supported browser has a QA process in place.

Since Safari is only 3% of the browser market, and since Mac users can access us using Firefox, we made the decision to focus on making the site more powerful, intuitive, and easy to use before investing in additional browser support. When dealing with limited development bandwidth, it’s always a tough call. There are always tradeoffs to be made between, for example, bug fixing vs new features vs site performance vs design enhancements. However, given the feedback, we’ll consider whether to make the site available to Safari users in our next release, even if we don’t have the capacity to make all the little fixes necessary to make the site look perfect. Perhaps that strikes a good balance. As a side note, we also recognize that a) many Mac users prefer not to use Firefox and b) many Mac users are thought leaders, web-savvy, technophilic early adopters who drive mass market opinions, so we know that the impact of Safari compatibility may extend beyond pure market share data.

In addition, we’ve received comments from some of you about content issues — in some cases, out of date information, and in others, inappropriate recommendations. Of course, while still in beta we’re working out the kinks on our content processes, but rest assured, we think that great content, more than anything else, will differentiate NileGuide in the market. In that regard, it’s great when we get feedback about recommendations that should be improved, and we act on them, both with our internal content team, and working with our local experts around the world. With hundreds of thousands of points of interest around the world, we’re striving to find the right balance between pure software automation (which doesn’t reach our target threshold for quality) and pure manual intervention (which is difficult to scale). We think a hybrid approach that leverages existing content sources, but adds key value using Nile software and our human local experts, is the right solution.

Finally, we’ll be adding many cool new features (and destinations), and upgrading the site design over the course of 2008. To date, we’ve been a tiny company with limited funding, and we’re proud of what we’ve built on that basis. Now we’re excited to really invest in building a truly world-class travel planning solution.

Thanks again for constructive feedback and suggestions, and keep them coming.

Being a developer I also had to take a look at the code and I agree with #2. Also, did you see those URLs?? Holy cow what a mess. Trying copying and pasting one of those in an email to a friend. Wake up guys.

#12 (Steve) I look forward to seeing yours

The offering that we’re developing here at GoPlanit.com aims to make trip planning easier and less aggravating for people. Hopefully we’ll help lead this wave~

NileGuide – epic fail.

A site that “works in one or two browsers” is a site that is not finished, but I would imagine that these issues will be sorted out in the near future. You can’t have a press releases without a site, and only nileguide know whether the site release was premature or not, but I imagine a decision was made to go with what was there.

However, as a New Yorker in the past 3 years… I can’t disagree with the recommended activities more. First of all, “Harlem” as a top recommended activity? I hope they also recommend a bullet vest. I also do not recognize any of the nightlife/restaurants (and I’d like to think I have explore a good portion of NYC).

While I do not know how contents are in other cities, but if they are similar to NYC, the NileGuide folks need to drastically improve the quality of their recommendations.

I dont really want to deal with any issues I.& may unleash on my computer at this time .

My I.E 6 works just fine …