As part of my Ibiza empire building scheme I’ve set up mallorca-ibiza.com as a blog so I can write about the 2 islands and promote the better sites about Mallorca and Ibiza.

Ibiza Market is back after being hacked and taken down to protect the innocent. We’ve found a much simpler script which we can help develop and improve and hopefully make a much friendlier end user experience.

You can also like the face book page here:

We’ve just added a new section on Ibiza Maps for property for sale on the Island so now you can browse real estate and see exactly what’s around when looking for a house apartment or land to buy.  See the list here: Ibiza Property

I’ve been wanting to buy a camera for ages so I can get some better photos for Ibiza Maps but I also wanted to be able to shoot videos. I found the Canon eso 500D while searching around other day and quickly did some creative accounting to buy it.

Straight from the camera

First day with eos 500D

I also took some test video which I’m really happy with. You can shoot 30 frames per second at 1080 x 720 which is excellent for an DSLR. I’ll post the results later. This was taken at Cala Figuera Borda just south of Cala Conteta

I decided that that map view on the detail pages on Ibiza Maps was too small and didn’t really help the user to fully orient themselves with what was around each point on the map. I’ve made the map larger now and included the other markers so when viewing a beach for example you can see the hotels, bars, restaurants within 2 Kms of that location on the map.

After years of procrastination I’ve finally got something together for www.ibizamaps.net and am busy adding data all the time to the site. Rather than just being another site about Ibiza, it links hotels, beaches, restaurants and businesses together by their proximity so you can see what’s around you when booking a hotel for example.

I launched it on the 1st of December 2008 and traffic response so far has been very good – visits have tripled since this time last year

Ibiza Maps and Information

I watched this in awe this morning…the hatred and ingnorance displayed in these 2 videos makes you want to go off to an Island in the Mediterranean and hide in a cave… 

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I would love to have the time necessary to design and create great icons but I don’t. Luckily there are nice people out there who let us download their work. Check out these great icons from Min Tran.

Free Icon set

Well Hillary hasn’t come out and said it yet but Obama has won the domination for the dems. John Mccain thought it would be a show of strength to get up on stage on the night this was made official, make his own speech and really put Obama in his place. Wow, he left me speechless.

I saw this video a while ago before the days of my blog and thought I’d add it now before I forgot about it.

Daniel Tammet – “The Boy with the Incredible Brain” is a short and fasinating documentary about a guy with an incredible way with numbers and memory.