The internet is inundated with new technologies, online communities, and social networks. Even though these concepts may seem rudimentary to some, for others, such sites as MySpace, Facebook, and ourbania are still foggy. This Blog is for the latter type.

As I woke up this morning in Missoula, MT I just knew that ourbania members in Europe had been busy. I checked - and there it was. The Eiswerder Riverside Promenade in Berlin is ourbania's 500th urban item. Be sure to visit it on ourbania (http://ourbania.de/urban-items/eiswerder-riverside-promenade) and take a stroll along the water the next time you visit Berlin (if you are not fortunate enough to live in this wonderful, lively city).

With the continuing growth of ourbania (we are still curious about what will be the 500th urban item) and its network of real estate people, we thought it was time to step back and think about some valuable features to add.

Also, we found that many first time visitors did not understand what ourbania was all about and what they can do here. That is why we decided to tweak our navigation wording and our claim. But we want to make sure that you like what we are doing, so please: Share your comments on the proposed changes and take the poll on the ourbania home page...

ourbania is getting closer to the number of 500 objects. Want to be the one who enters the 500th urban item? Go on! Be an active citizen. We're curious to see where and what it is.

What a good milestone in the history of ourbania.com! We crossed the line of more than 500 citizens. This is quite good news.

We started this year by breaking the 300 mark in terms of urban items as well as citizens. Currently we are able to present more that 400 urban items! So, help us to continue that way of success here...

Thanks to all of you!

It is time to present the people behind the scenes of ourbania.com. Therefore, we thought about giving you an impression of who we are...

ourbania started on october 1st. After 4 ½ months, people from 2.700 different cities access this community. Here are the Top-200 ourbania cities, starting with the city with the most people accessing to ourbania.

1. Frankfurt (Main)
2. Berlin
3. Mainz
4. Augusta
5. Munich
6. London
7. Hamburg
8. Milan
9. Eschborn
10. Riyadh
11. Cologne
12. Stuttgart
13. Shanghai
14. New York
15. Madrid
16. Düsseldorf
17. Bucharest
18. Paris
19. Washington
20. Vienna
21. Las Vegas
22. Dubayy
23. Shinjuku
24. Gondomar
25. Warsaw
26. Prague
27. Hannover
28. Essen
29. Torino

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

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 :-).

Dear Citizen,

the ourbania team has integrated banners including HTML code in the site so that you are able to use it on your own site, a blog, a forum or whereever you want to talk about ourbania.com.

There are different sizes and logos available, you are free to choose from a variety of banners. In the future the number of banners will be extended further. Just copy the HTML code into your website or in your posted comments and share the idea of networking in architectural and real estate issues!

Have a look on:

http://ourbania.com/banner

Ourbania gets more and more known on the globe!

The international real estate website Overseaspropertymall.com has just published an interview with the founder of mediaman. Mediaman initiated the project ourbania in cooperation with the Eurohypo AG. Interview topics are the concept behind the scenes, the status of the project and Stefan von den Driesch shows which features are planned in future releases.

The interview can be found at:

http://www.overseaspropertymall.com/internet-marketing/interview-with-st...

Hi Citizen,
it is time to give you a little update about ourbania.com and today I would like to share with you something I think is really great. The blogosphere started blogging about ourbania all over the world and you will now find poss about this community in German, English, Italian, Spanish and some Asian languages.
Have a look at this one for example:
http://wwwhatsnew.com/2007/11/14/ourbania-los-mejores-proyectos-arquitec...
or here:
http://de.blognation.com/2007/11/13/ourbania-a-community-about-urban-ite...
and what about this one?

ourbania, live for 10 days, is growing and I want you to share some interesting facts about this community with me:
• We have 14 new users
• 30 new comments
• You built 55 new Urban Items during these 10 days
• And most citizens are based in Germany or USA
• We had 3.378 views of the website

This is good for the beginning of the community and I am sure we can do even better. So, do not hesitate to invite your friends and other people you know, who are interested in real estate and architecture or like to share their pictures of buildings.

There are already quite a number of web sites online dealing with real estate or architecture. The idea is, to bring certain aspects of these together in ourbania, a real estate community and web 2.0 platform based on user generated content. Our users — we call them citizens — are especially interested in commercial real estate and the so-called built environment, and they're at home on the internet and in the capital cities worldwide. Here they find the ambience which inspires and fascinates them.