Category: Miscellaneous

We got it! After an exciting voting process, we have qualified for the startup 2.0 final. A total of ten European startups have been selected within 157 projects. It means we’ll have the chance to present trourist to a panel of Venture capitals, angel investors, Web 2.0 specialists  and other entrepreneurs from all around Europe.

In April 24th, it will take place in Bilbao an important competition, Startup 2.0, whose objetives are to promote and reward the European Internet startups.

We are looking forward to taking part in this event, that’s why we would appreciate your votes in the following link. Three easy steps that will help us a lot.

Thanks in advance!

Third week of development: we have been defining together with La Personnalité the last details of the web’s design and Linking Paths has started programming.

The biggest efforts have been made to integrate trourist with Facebook through Facebook Connect API. Thanks to this, Facebook users will be able to log in with just a click, connect with their Facebook friends, and export their trourist activity to Facebook.

On another hand, we have been racking our brains about the best claim to include to the logo. In spite of having very clear what to say, it has been really difficult to determine how to say it. The important message is that trourist is going to help you to experience your destinations based on what your friends have experienced before (always having in mind that experiences make one place so different from the others). Our proposal is KEEP TRAVELING REAL. What do you think about?

Recently, Mashables’s blogger Ben Parr has published an article referring to how users use social media for travel research.

He provides an overview of tips an tools for using social as a travel research tool. He recommends the following steps:

1.- Utilize Wikis and Blogs for Travel Education.

2.- Scope out locales using user reviews.

3.- Connect with locals.

4.- Share your travel experience.

We share the same vision Ben Parr does and we are working to make the creation, enjoyment and remember of a trip more social.

What about you? Do you use social media for travel research?

We have passed the second week of the development process. Step by step, all our work is making sense, so we’re really happy.

Once the Web architecture have been defined, we have been improving the prototype of each screen (every small detail need to be fixed).

We have also started working on the Web-design. We will share it with you as soon as possible. We just want to let you know that it has its own character.

We consider we are developing a competitive product and fortunately it will be launched soon.

Last Friday we finish the first week on the launch of trourist. As we told you in this blog, our “travel mates” are Linking Paths and La Personnalité.

It has been a very intense week in terms of work. The week began with a meeting with our “travel mates” to establish the working methodology. After that, we have spent most of the time working with La Personnalité defining the architecture of the Web.

We’ll keep you updated with the progress made.