Dragonfly Media Curacao

The past few years we have seen Curacao move forward on the internet. We see all kinds of start-ups, new projects by old companies and an increased interest for websites and internet marketing. Not only the hospitality business is booming on Curacao, but the internet business as well.

With all these advances and the good things that result from them we also see the hacks, the snake oil salesmen and the people that just don’t know any better ride the same wave. Especially this last week we have encountered the good (luckily), the bad and the very ugly.

The Good
Earlier this week we got an email through a contact about a Curacao map web-application. It is built in Flash and is the first well-built local map application that we have seen so far. With this application you can find any street, neighborhood and important city center in Curacao with the click of a button. Not only does it work like a charm, but it also looks very good.

We spoke with one of the developers today and he told us about the idea and the goals of this website. We were especially impressed with the fact that they used the government’s data to build the map instead of just copying over one of the maps you buy in a store (so, there are no copyright issues). They are currently working on monetizing the website and they have some pretty solid ideas on how to grow this organically and on what kinds of functionality they should add in time. (more…)