The ourbania team is currently busy updating the ranking possibilities of urban items. The team came up with some ideas for ranking features. The basis for the ranking could be the attribute building costs as well as the gross floor area and the building height. As a result, buildings and interesting spots could be compared to each other based on the real estate details.

When building or editing Urban Items, you can add related links. This is an excellent thing to do because it adds enormous value to the Urban Item. It means that for additional information you can provide interested people with a direct link to other websites about the building and save them a lot of time searching the web. The more related links there are, the better it is. For adding more than one link it is necessary that you separate the links by introducing a comma and a space character. Otherwise there will only be one very long link, which will lead nowhere.

There is a new browser available in the web which can help you managing your blog posts on ourbania as well as managing and sharing your flickr photos. The Flock Browser is totally focussed on Web 2.0 applications and gadgets.

The real estate and architecture community gets more and more known in the blogosphere. Here you can find what international bloggers recently wrote about ourbania. Have a look on those:

http://infodoodads.com/?p=280

http://www.publiweb.it/tecnologia/ourbania.html

http://nousera.blog68.fc2.com/blog-date-200712.html

There is an interesting event coming up from the 16th until the 19th of January 2008: the European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design EURAU 2008, which will be officially opened for the fourth time.

Dear Citizens,
Talking about great numbers in my last post, here is another one:
Flickr reached 2.147.483.647 pictures at the very end of the year 2007. (Congratulations to Flickr!!) This is also the limit for signed integer data type and it unfortunately causes some problems by users of the Flickr API.
What does it mean for ourbania citizens?
It means that for a couple of days it will not be possible to upload

What a good beginning of the year 2008! I hope you recovered well from all end-of-the-year celebrations and I have good news about the community to share with you.
We started this year by breaking the 300-mark in terms of Urban Items as well as Citizen. Congratulations! I hope you will continue to enjoy the community, tell your friends about it and build the world :-).