Hey everyone!  E here.  Sorry for the brief hiatus, but we here at Beersurfing have been extremely busy preparing to get you all drunk.  I just wanted to take a moment thank you all for taking the first survey – your answers were extremely valuable to me and D, who is very diligently cracking away at them to build a viable beer and bar recommendation model.  Meanwhile, I’m adding more and more sections to the site every night, which many of you may have noticed.  Probably not, since most of it is stuff I haven’t posted publicly yet.  The most noticeable change so far is the account system – you all can make accounts now*, a step which will be required if you want to start receiving bar and beer recommendations.  This will also be required to take the next survey, as we’ll be mapping your responses to your overall preferences, as well as using your email and the location you specify to notify you of your personalized selections.

One drawback to this approach is that we need a large amount of data to get started.  Within the next couple of days we’ll have a mechanism in place for everyone to start adding bars and beers to the site, posting pictures of them, rating them in various ways, and posting reviews about each one. When enough bars and beers have been added to the system, we’ll send out an email to all registered users, as well as those who left their email address with us on the last survey.

Time to get back to work.  D and I appreciate your interest in our website, and we look forward to getting to know each of you.

~E

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_{*Unless both of you IE6 users try to register – you won’t be able to show me where you are.  I’m still searching for a solution}