What's noo?

2008, 4705, 1387, 5768, 3, etc.

So here it is. Our new website! It’s two day’s before our season’s launch party on October 29 and typical to every year, we’re working away, furiously making improvements and adding new ideas to the site in the continuous effort to improve the new year’s experience.

As part of this year’s additions we’ve got a whole new Hotel and Travel section to help travelers find hotels, cars, flights and vacation rentals during the holiday season. You can expect our full selection of e-cards once again towards the end of the year, as well as the new ability to review events and help organizers improve their annual celebrations.

As a result of great feedback and requests over our first few New Year seasons we've also made the change from nooYears to nooEvents. The change allows us to FINALLY provide our services year round for other annual celebrations and cultural events. View the press release.

In addition to our revamped events site we also launched nooExperiences earlier this year to get our feet wet with some other fun stuff. The feedback has been great and we’re really looking forward to improving that site in 2009. We know. It still doesn’t have a search functionality. We're working on it!

Oh yeah, and we've officially become The Noo Group Ltd. as of May. While Noo Year Hospitality LLC made sense as we started with a New Year's specific service, we felt our new name was a better fit for our long term vision. Hopefully the VCs that we'll be pitching soon will agree. Speaking of which, does anyone know any? We'd love some intros.

2007, 4704, 1386, 5767, 2, etc.

This year has been another year of challenging experiences for us. From finding new team members and planning for our growth in 2008, to making some unexpected leaps into new territories, we’ve been busy. But once again you won’t see too much change on the surface, at least not until the new year.

As of today, November 19th, we’ve got another noo Beginning under way and looking forward to its completion. We’ve also started our new blog which we’ll try to update more regularly than this annual post.

2006, 4703, 1385, 5766, 1, etc.

This year is a baby step year in which we've focused our efforts on improving the usability of the site. We haven't been able to address all the issues but hopefully you'll find it easier to browse or search for events and to buy your tickets.

On the creative front we'll be releasing a whole bunch of e-cards towards the end of the year. We hope you'll enjoy sending them to friends and family.

2005, 4702, 1384, 5765, 0, etc.

Well we don't have too much of a history to write about yet as this website is actually brand new. But here's the short version of what noo is all about...

noo.com was created this year to bring people together on every New Year, to share cultures and to celebrate new beginnings. As an event guide and ticket broker for celebrations we strive to:

• Build a valuable New Year's information resource
• Simplify New Year's holiday planning
• Explore the world where culture celebrates
• Challenge ourselves (and maybe even you) with a little Creativity
• Not confuse ourselves on a daily basis in the office when we tell each other "the new file for that noo idea is in the new folder". Honestly. You may not think it, but it's a serious communication problem we face internally; one which we do admit, does usually lead to some good daily chuckles and many confused looks.