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From today, local.ch Leisure has the most extensive Event Search in Switzerland for the whole of the Canton of Ticino. Thanks to our partners www.ticino.ch and www.tio.ch, ALL tourist and local events can now be quickly and easily found on local.ch under ‘Leisure’.

Search and you will find
If, for example, you look for ‘Concert’ in ‘Bellinzona’, you will find jazz trios, Flori Musicali di Bellinzona or an appearance of the Flamingo Band. In this way, you can find interesting, cultural and, above all, local events!

Opening hours and location maps
Search local.ch for the door opening times or the location on the map of an event that you already know about.

Restaurants and bars
You can, of course, also find the nearest food outlet on Leisure by searching for ‘Pizzeria’ in ‘Locarno’.

Events on your mobile phone
All events can also be searched in your mobile phone using ‘mobile.guide.local.ch’, which is very practical when you’re traveling! Simply save this link as a Bookmark in the browser on your mobile phone.

We wish you lots of fun in searching and finding events in Ticino!

and

A lunch meeting with work colleagues, a cinema evening with friends, a date for a family gathering: Doodle makes finding appointments easier.

As soon as the appointment has been made, wouldn’t it be useful to know WHERE the event is taking place and how to get there?

This is where we come in:
We offer the possibility to add the address to the Doodle, so that all participants can see where the event is taking place. Public transport is selectable on a map.

Today the address for example ‘Thurgauerstrasse 40, Zürich’ can be added to the Doodle. More functionalities will be added soon.

Try it out and give us feedback on info@local.ch.

Go to doodle.com.

Win Paleo Festival Tickets with local.ch!
Find openairs, local events and the current cinema program for your area in the local.ch Leisure section. Search for a band of your choice across the whole of Switzerland to see where they’re playing!

How to win Paleo Festival tickets:
See Moby, Amy MacDonald, SnowPatrol, NTM and Ska-P at the Paleo Festival 2009! We have tickets for you to win!

Write to us either by commenting on the blog right here, or by sending us an e-mail to info@local.ch and tell us “What do you wish we had on the local.ch Leisure section?”.

Send us your ideas by the 1st of July!

Have you seen ‘local’? Flickr it!

At local.ch we like to share our historic moments with everyone. Our glorious moments of fame and fortune, our crazy events and company outings as well as of course snippits from our daily work life, which is everything other than boring.

You can see all fotos related to local.ch right here in the local flickr group.

Flickr it.

Every time we spot the word ‘local’ written somewhere we flickr it. For example the snow local or the local heroes. So, if you come across any ‘local’s in your travels, send them in to us at: info@local.ch.

Win!

The most original ‘local’ foto sent in to us before the 1st of April 2009 wins a Samsung digital foto frame! Please provide your postal address with the e-mail with your fotos!

For the further development of the innovative and Award winning local.ch team we are looking for new talents:

Junior Software Engineer
The Junior Software Engineer is part of the platform team, which runs the daily operation. We are looking for a person, who is the interface between clients, users and our platform (Job Description, pdf, in German)

Senior Software Engineer
The Senior Software Engineer will work together with the engineering team on the further development of the platform. This includes conceptual work, technical implementation and project management (Job Description, pdf, in German)

Senior Software Engineer with Focus on Information Retrieval (Lucene Framework)
Our search engine is built around the Lucene Framework. We would like to complement our search team with someone who has a solid theoretical background on information retrieval, particularly with an ability to implement Lucene based solutions. (Job Description, pdf, in German)

About us:
local.ch Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swisscom Directories and was founded in November 2005 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubliGroupe-Division PubliDirect. local.ch is part of the joint venture between PubliDirect and Swisscom Directories Ltd., who are jointly responsible for the marketing of printed and electronic directories (local and regional telephone directories and Yellow Pages®).

The main goal of local.ch is – as the name implies – to provide the best local search in Switzerland. Join a great team and help build a leading edge public website. The team at local.ch is multinational and multilingual.

More information
More details in the job descriptions and of course by contacting us at marc [dot] isler [at] local.ch.