Category: Announcements
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Relaunching the RinkAtlas Blog
Today I’m relaunching the RinkAtlas blog on our new website. This blog actually launched July 24, 2006, but has been on hiatus since I relaunched the main RinkAtlas website. Adding a blog to RinkAtlas gives us the opportunity to write articles about arenas that deserve more attention, and current events that are important to the hockey community.…
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Getting Directions to Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex
Please note that searches for Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex in Rochester, NY are not working correctly through the search box at the top of the RinkAtlas home page. We are aware of the problem. You can find this arena by visiting the following URL: http://www.rinkatlas.com/?guid=149&source=linkto We’re sorry for the error and we will work to…
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RinkAtlas Database Corrections for FMC-Managed Rinks Throughout Massachusetts
We updated the RinkAtlas database this morning to reflect changes to the home pages for 22 rinks in Massachusetts that are managed by FMC Ice Sports. If you are a RinkAtlas user in Massachusetts, then this may help you to get more information about the rinks that FMC manages for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation…
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RinkAtlas Is Now Part of After6 Services
It’s my pleasure to note that RinkAtlas is now officially part of After6 Services, a new company that I started in January. We just pushed a few minor changes to the RinkAtlas website that can be seen by our customers, one of which is the inclusion of “After6 Services LLC” in the Copyright notices. We…
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Formal Announcement of RinkAtlas.com
For Immediate Release Contact: Dave Aiello RinkAtlas.com “RinkAtlas” On-Line Directory of North American Ice Rinks Successfully Launched New Website Provides Door-to-Door Directions to Over 1,800 Ice Sports Facilities in the United States Newtown, PA — October 12, 2006 — RinkAtlas, a new Internet-based directory of ice sports facilities, is up and running as of today.…
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Database Building Policy Change for Canadian Rink Database
A lot of people who commented on Guy Kawasaki’s blog posting about RinkAtlas want to know when we plan to begin building our Canadian rink database. I’ve decided to start building it immediately, but I’m changing the order in which rinks are entered. When we built the U.S. rink database, I compiled a list of…
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RinkAtlas Database of U.S. Rinks Completed
We hit a major milestone with RinkAtlas today. With the entry of Fort Wainwright Ice Arena on the military base of the same name outside of Anchorage, Alaska, we completed the RinkAtlas database of U.S. indoor ice rinks. We can now move on to review the database to make sure that we didn’t miss any…
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New RinkAtlas Logo Completed
I developed a new logo for RinkAtlas today. You can see it below: I added a face-off circle to the left side of the logo, and removed the “.com” from the end of RinkAtlas. I think this improves the user experience a bit by making the site look a little more professional and finished. I…
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RinkAtlas.com Now Contains 1000 Rinks in the Eastern United States
A little while ago, RinkAtlas.com hit 1,000 rinks in its database. For the record, the 1,000th rink was Hoffman Estates Park District Community Center & Ice Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
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RinkAtlas.com Now Includes Michigan
We just completed entering all of the rinks in Michigan, so now RinkAtlas.com includes over 950 rinks from Houghton, Michigan and Springdale, Arkansas east to the Atlantic Ocean. Next stop: Illinois.