Great news! We have just been nominated as one of Yahoo!’s finds of the year for 2007. We have been nominated within the innovative category and are also up for the People’s Choice Award which is where you can really help us. We need your votes.

If you need a little more convincing on why you should vote then think about all the extra traffic and awareness ParkatmyHouse.com will receive if we win and all those extra people who will be looking to rent or rent out a parking space in your area.

Yahoo! are due to announce the results of the competition on 8th January.

Click here to vote.

Thanks again for supporting us.

Anthony Eskinazi

In general, reliability is the ability of a person or system to perform and maintain its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.

As you hopefully know from reading our previous post we have recently added a new feature called `reliability ratings`.

We really recommend you check a user’s rating before contacting them as the rating we give them is usually a good indication on how likely they are to read and then action your inquiry.

Instead of showing a user’s feedback rating next to their username, we will now be showing each user’s reliability rating. The scale is from 0% to 100% with 100% indicating that this user is extremely reliable at responding to his/her messages.

You can still view a user’s feedback by clicking on their username to view their ParkatmyHouse.com feedback profile.

Is there anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Facebook?

Well the clever billionaires over in Silicon Valley have launched a number of new features over the past few months and best of all… they are all free! All types of businesses can now create a dedicated `fan page`, an application to create a Facebook version of their own website or some new clever advertising methods to drive targeted traffic back to their site.

So we didn’t miss the boat, we have created a small ParkatmyHouse.com application (http://apps.facebook.com/parking/) which allows you to search through all of our parking spaces direct from Facebook.

If you do have a play with it, we’d really like to know what features you would like to see added to the application.

Do you like our cute logo? Do you want to show your public support for what we are trying to do? I’m sure the answer was at least yes to the logo question and therefore we have set up a special Facebook page where you can become a ‘Fan of ParkatmyHouse.com‘.

Please write us messages, send us love and generally let us know how we are doing!

Before I actually tell you about this new feature I did some research in to where the phrase `one fell swoop` originated from. For years I thought the correct pronunciation was `In one foul swoop` and to this day always pronounce it in this way.

According to the `Phrase Finder`
Shakespeare either coined the phrase, or gave it circulation, in Macbeth, 1605:

MACDUFF: [on hearing that his family and servants have all been killed]

All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?

I guess the way most of us are using it is a clear example of a malapropism – `a ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound`, which again is something I am regularly guilty of doing.

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Now that the English lesson is over I thought I’d write a small post on how we will automatically suggest other parking spaces that may be of interest to you after you make that initial enquiry. It is quite self explanatory and an example is shown below. However, if you do need any help with this feature or want to suggest ways we can improve it or any other feature on our site please let us know.