We have added Google Map integration into the merchant page so that we can find our way to the merchant’s store easily. Hit on the screenshot below to see it in action.

Of course, this would only be available if we know the location of the merchant. If you find a merchant’s location missing or inaccurate, you may help us to correct it by commenting on the merchant page itself.

Have a nice weekend!

myLensDB started from a simple price sharing platform 3 years ago to a quite comprehensive platform that let you to track prices, interactively find lenses, see photos taken by the community, engage in the discussion and many more to come. In this posting, we continue to strengthen our core feature, which is on the price tracking further.

In this release, we would be able to see list of merchants that have their pricing shared in myLensDB’s database.

Of course, we will need to make sure that a merchant’s contact information is legitimate before it is added to the merchant list.

At the merchant page, we would be able to engage in the merchant-specific discussion where we can share our experience in dealing with the merchant or post any reviews or promotions about it too. It is only tagged as Alpha release as there are lots of technical issues to sort out still. If you come across any bug or would like to give us your opinion, please do join us at our forum.

We believe that the power of the community would bring benefits to the masses and we would like to thank you for your continuous support all these years in helping to keep this project alive.

We have made a quick visual update to the Explore! section. The content layout has been stretched to the maximum width allowed by taking out the sidebar.

We figure out that we need not to have the sidebar in every single page.

Here’s before.

And after.

Number of columns has been increased and the same goes to the number of photos in a page. Photos are being displayed out in their native 240px width as streamed over from Flickr.

With this update, we are sure that this would improve our visitors’ experience in using the site.

Click here for the Forum post announcement.

We are currently assessing the feasibility of running our own full fledged discussion board (aka a forum) that is being tested at mylensdb.com/discuss. This is to replace the ShoutMix chat box found on the right sidebar of our website.

The simple, “one threaded” chat box is very useful for discussion but over time, it does not retain the knowledge being built up by the community thus we firmly believe that by creating a discussion board, we can promote and share knowledge effectively.

Come! Join us at our new community space and say hi.

We have talked to a couple of people and been getting feedback from some online buddies and decided to finally make the call for a new website design.

It is cluttered, wordy, crowded and confusing.

myLensDB has been riding on this design since November 2009 and since then, hell lots of new features and changes have been introduced.

We have grown so much since we took on There’s too much clutter, too many words, crowded, confused.

This is, of course, just a sketch of many others that we have in mind. We are still in the very early stage of designing so feel free to voice your opinions or concern to us. Thanks for being with us all these while everyone.