ArrivedOK now passes geographical coordinates of the travel destinations from its database to Twitter, so every arrival tweet is now geotagged, enabling your followers to see on a map the place where you just landed and have additional context when viewing tweets.

Though Twitter website does not display geotags yet, the growing number of third party applications does, for instance, such popular clients as Echofon, TweetDeck, Seesmic. Examples of other location-based Twitter apps are: Happn.in and Trendsmap.

Enabling geotagging in Twitter

By default the geotagging service is disabled for Twitter users. This means that you have to opt-in to sharing your location and this can only be done through the Settings page on twitter.com.

Follow these links right now to enable geotagging in Twitter:

mobile – twitter.com/account/settings/geo
desktop – twitter.com/account/settings

How it looks like

Now your ArrivedOK tweets will be geotagged and marked with an icon of some kind, depending on what Twitter app you use. Clicking the icon will open a map for you – in the app window or in your browser; some apps display Google Maps, some use Yahoo.

See below the example of Arrivedok geotagging in TweetDeck client. Happy landings!

ArrivedOK – “The Personal Flight Arrival Tracker” – automatically tracks your arrival at airports worldwide and instantly alerts your friends and family by SMS, email, via weblogs and social media – right at the moment you turn on your phone after the landing.
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ArrivedOK introduces invites and badges.

Invite your friends and earn free credits when they subscribe to ArrivedOK and make a purchase. Got a blog or webpage? Place our badge on your website and earn free credits too.

If you’re a registered user of ArrivedOK, you can now earn bonus credits and use the service for free. You don’t even have to purchase a service package to make it happen – if any user comes to ArrivedOK from your webpage or via your invitation and buys a package, you receive free credits. Its as simple as that. The more users you attract, the more credits you get.

We are giving away 3 credits for a package purchase. This is worth 3 arrivals tracking, or 3 SMS alerts, or 1 arrival with 2 alerts, and so on. The formula is simple: 3=1+1+1.

Choose, whichever work best for you: invites or badges. If you’re a prominent blogger with a large following and heavy traffic, we would recommend badges as your best option. If you just want to share info about ArrivedOK with your fellow travelers, we recommend using the invites.

If anyone buys our (competitively priced) Economy Class or Frequent Flyer package, you get your free credits, which you can use to notify your friends and family about your arrivals anywhere. This is particularly good news for those of you who were not too pleased when ArrivedOK went commercial (yes we do read your emails and feedback).

And one more thing (attention Twitter and Facebook users!). All badges are linked to ArrivedOK with your user ID in the URL so we know which users come from you. You can actually use your unique URL wherever you like (even without a badge – in your tweets, emails, posts, etc.) to attract more subscribers and earn your free credits.

Not subscribed to ArrivedOK yet? You can do it here.

So, share and enjoy. Merry Xmas and…
Happy Landings!

Do you know what those abbreviations mean? I didn’t until I went to a conference in LA last month. I enjoyed it, in part because it was sunny and warm and I got my share of summer that I didn’t have this summer. I mean there was summer but it wasn’t summery, it was rainy.

Anyway, global warming aside, I wanted to make these abbreviations clear to all of you who don’t know but are curious:

ARAC = well, this one I actually don’t know, but ancillary revenue is the AR here. It was the name of the conference which was organized by AI or Airline Information (group of people) who did a GREAT JOB. And are doing a great job. It was actually the best thing that I brought back home — the relationship with the guys from AI – Michael, Roger and Chris. And then there was also lovely Gill whose accent I admired probably the most.

Yes, the conference had two parts, one of which was dedicated to FFP or frequent flyer programs which is also called “loyalty”. A lot of attention was paid to keeping people as well as making money from all of them. As to making money the most publicity undoubtedly went to… RyanAir. Because anyone talking about LCC or low cost carriers would say: “Well, but not like RyanAir — did you hear they charge you for going to the toilet?” Thus everyone remotely thinking of business thought: “Hey these guys are really in the know of how to make MONEY not just preserve the image.”

In any case, the biggest success and the savor of me not carrying a lot of junk paper was the invention of our business cards by Andrey Deryabin whom we can only applaud. Really. Check those cuties out:

Aren’t they GREAT? What else do you need to say about ArrivedOK? It says it all: memorable, cute, innovative, created by those who actually THINK.

Because, as my favorite quote goes:

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

– Bernard Shaw

I found this fascinating quote today:

Twitter has a huge aviation community – from airlines and airports, to cabin crew and aviation enthusiasts. Whether you like to fly a plane or just watch planes fly, there are lots of aviation geeks on Twitter with whom you can converse about your passions or just listen.Shashank Nigam, High Flying Tweets: 11 of the best airline or aviation bloggers / journalists to follow on Twitter, Aug 2009

You should read the whole article.

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.

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