News and chat about and around ArrivedOK - the Personal Flight Arrival Tracker and mobile tool for travelers like you to instantly notify your friends and family when you arrive at airports worldwide
 

Two great traveler’s tools work together: ArrivedOK integrates with TripIt

26 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Air Travel, Applications, ArrivedOK News, Travel, Travel Apps, Web 2.0

  • “Can I import trips from TripIt so I don’t have to fill everything in?”
  • “Linking to tripit.com – that would be really magic.”
  • “I use www.tripit.com for all my travels. Please use their RSS feed to create records for me.”

These are quotes from our beta-testers’ emails.

Following these requests we want to announce that ArrivedOK has just integrated with TripIt and made the import of flight records stored in TripIt available to its users. You can find that option at ‘Create event‘ page. It is really a one-click feature. Please check it out and let us know what you think about it.

Now ArrivedOK can import flight information from your TripIt

About TripIt

With today’s myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip. Booking airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and restaurants leaves you with lots of separate pieces of paper. Throw in maps, directions, things to do, and weather and the chaos multiplies.

TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:

  • Organize trip details into one master online itinerary — even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites
  • Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary
  • Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary
  • Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary

Share your flight arrivals with your friends. Add ArrivedOK box to your Facebook profile

20 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Applications, ArrivedOK News, How-to, Travel Apps

Arrivedok Facebook profile box
10 days ago we launched ArrivedOK Facebook application. It automatically updates your Facebook status with your arrival alert at the moment you turn on your mobile phone after your landing.

You can add the ArrivedOK box to your profile. We’ll put there your currently active scheduled flights. If you are not flying anywhere in the nearest future, the box will display a summary of your past arrivals.

Invite your friends to join ArrivedOK app so they could easily notify their loved ones about their arrivals worldwide. See your Facebook friends who already using ArrivedOK, or become an ArrivedOK Fan.

ArrivedOK Launches Facebook Application

11 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Applications, ArrivedOK News, Community, Travel Apps, Web 2.0

You might be interesting to know that we just launched ArrivedOK Facebook application. Now you can easily share your arrival alerts with your Facebook friends.

If you’re a Facebook user just go to that page and add the application to your Facebook account. You don’t need anything to do with your ArrivedOK settings. Facebook will automatically appear in the list of your web services under ‘My blogs’ tab in your ArrivedOK profile.

Check out ArrivedOK on Facebook

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Arrivedok Facebook app screenshot

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What people say about ArrivedOK – updated

06 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Air Travel, Applications, Travel, Travel Apps, Trends

We keep on receiving responses about ArrivedOK. Here are some of them. Thanks to everyone who took a look at the service, your feedback is very inspiring!

“Simple, clear, and straightforward,.. convenient service” – KillerStartups.com

“This is a brilliant concept! Bravo!” – Dr. Jessie Voigts from Wanderingeducators.com

I am definitely going to use this next time we fly somewhere!” – Sandy Nielsen, Sleeps5.com

“I can see a pretty nice potential to something like this. I will be traveling in a few months throughout the states as well as Europe, and could really use something like this.” – Nick via blackberrycool.com

“Thank you thank  you thank you. You are one of the few sites that care about all people not just the ones with out disabilities. I commend you guys for that and might feature you on a podcast I do for this purpose. Check it out at feeds2.feedburner.com/funfilled – Sarah Alawami.

“Very cool!” – @Hdueitt, New York, NY.

“Neat!” – Emmanuel Marot, Seattle, WA

“Brilliant.” – Travelbuzz NY

“What a nice idea!” – Joe Distefano, Melbourne.

“Excellent traveler’s essential” – Frans-Jozef, Manchester, UK.

“Do you have a mother like mine? Neurotic? She always wants to know when my plane has landed.” – Suzanne Dowling, San Francisco, CA.

“Ah hah. Another neat idea that came flying into my inbox this afternoon… It’s called ArrivedOK. Peace of mind. Especially for mum.” – Mobile Industry Review.

“If you’ve ever flown, you know what’s like to call and tell everyone you made it.” – @JasonClough, Raleigh, NC.

“Seems like ArrivedOK idea is pretty neat.” – @feebeyer, Berlin.

“ArrivedOK is a great idea.” – @jaketay, Australia.

“Wow. arrivedok.mobi is ridiculously clever little thing for anyone who travels. Sends predefined texts when you switch your phone back on.” – @Ana Nelson, Dublin, Ireland.

“Definitely cool use of technology.” by Craig Agranoff from Scommerce.com

“I #arrivedOK to London. Beta testing ArrivedOK. If you see this then I just arrived at London LHR and it works!..” – Jonathan Clark, Amsterdam.

When it seemed that everything was invented!..” – @nicolasariza, Medellín – Here comes ArrivedOK [A.D].

ArrivedOK: now there’s a piece of clever telecoms technology. Sometimes there arrives a perfect solution to a real problem.” – Pat Phelan, Ireland.

Andy Abramson, Del Mar, CA: “A very imaginative service… As a global nomad this kind of service is ideal for me, especially with my family and colleagues. I regularly text the word “landed” when I touch down using either SMS or the built in Blackberry Messenger to those on my Messenger Buddy List internally… I imagine the service will be very useful to the frequent flier types who have to be working anywhere at any time. From my perspective, ArrivedOk will cut down on a task that for some can be time consuming or just challenging. They smartly have also included email as a notification mechanism.”

“You’re really a bit surprised nobody thought of this before.” – David Sims, TMCnet, at his article about ArrivedOK.

“See, this way, your personal arrival is noted instead of flight status in general, so when you oversleep your nine-hour Dubai layover, or miss your connecting flight in Heathrow, you don’t have anybody tapping their toes at the airport for hours while you’re still over the Atlantic Ocean. Not that that’s happened to this reporter either, no siree. No personal experience there, spending two hours traveling out to the Istanbul Airport, waiting three hours and returning home empty-handed only to have to go back later that night.”

“If you’re tired of picking up the phone and calling half a dozen people every time you land in a new city to let them know you arrived OK, you might want to check out a new service called… ArrivedOK.” – Downloadsquad.com

“As passengers, once we’ve safely arrived at our destination, we power up our Blackberries and iPhones to let our loved ones know that the flight is over… Whether we make a call, send a text, update our Facebook status or “tweet” it on Twitter, we feel compelled to let our friends and family know we arrived OK… But the next time I fly, I won’t be calling my mom, boyfriend or roommate to let them know I’m safely sitting on the tarmac waiting to access the overhead compartment. Because next time I’m going to use ArrivedOK.”- Vacationplanning.net: Flight Tracker Cleared for Takeoff.

“ArrivedOK is a clever service that texts loved ones when you land at your destination and turn on your phone. It would be quite useful as an everyday shorter-journey service too. My mother-in-law-to-be always forgets to text us when she arrives home in Carlow from Waterford.” – Paul M. Watson, Waterford, Ireland.

“Touch down in another country, and it’s likely the first thing you’ll want to do is let friends and famly know you’ve reached your destination safe and sound. But dialing direct means those dastardly international roaming rates kick in… This kind of traveler dilemma is what makes us especially intrigued by ArrivedOK… Along with the convenience of being able to alert multiple people at once, the app means you’re bypassing the hefty international charges you’d incur for voice, text and email services via your cell phone while traveling abroad.” – lorraine @ travelpost.com: Skip International Roaming Rates with ArrivedOK Phone App.

“Interesting new service called ArrivedOK. It works in a unique way…” – Ronen Halevy via berryreview.com

ArrivedOk: Si mamá, estoy bajando del avion

29 Apr   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Applications

Definitivamente una forma de causar un poco de preocupación a tus familiares y seres queridos es que viajes, y peor aún si viajas frecuentemente en avión, y ellos estarán preocupados por saber si ya llegaste a tu destino, y especialmente si llegaste bien y a la hora correcta y más aún al lugar correcto.

Avisarles que todo está bien puede ser un problema por los costos de llamadas, o incluso que tengamos que avisar a diversas personas de nuestro arribo exitoso es un poco tedioso, y nos obliga a gastar tiempo que podríamos utilizar en el asunto que nos ha llevado a viajar.

Para suplir esa necesidad, Texas-based Eyeline Communications una empresa de comunicaciones ha estrenado con éxito su servicio ArrivedOK, lo que permite notificar por mensajes de texto, correos electrónicos e incluso mensajes en Twitter a los familiares o personas interesadas del arribo al destino.

El funcionamiento del servicio se basa en un seguimiento al telefono móvil del usuario, quien lo apaga al subir al avión, y vuelve a encenderlo al momento de aterrizar. Su tecnología permite detectar cuando el aterrizaje ha sido antes de lo planeado o si está en un destino diferente.

(via this site)