See the press release in Russian.

See the press release in Japanese. ◎乗客の到着を自動通知　「アライブドオーケイ」

London, 20 April
Distributed by PR Newswire on behalf of arrivedok.mobi

WWW.ARRIVEDOK.MOBI flight tracker and arrival messenger selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards, gets localized for Japanese and Russian markets, available for the rest of the world now.

Austin, TX – 20 April 2009 — ArrivedOK, the personal flight arrival tracker and arrival messenger is now available in Japanese and Russian languages and open for beta testing in most countries of the world. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by email, SMS, via blogs or Twitter, and enables travelers to save on international roaming charges.

Developed by Eyeline Communications Inc., ArrivedOK lets travelers enter flight information and recipient emails or phone numbers before take-off. When you reach your destination and turn on your cell phone, the service locates your cell phone in the local mobile network and automatically sends out a brief arrival message to the recipients in your list.

Along with the convenience of being able to alert at once different people with different messages, the application allows users bypassing the heavy international roaming charges for voice, text and mobile email services while traveling abroad.

The unique feature of ArrivedOK is that it notifies about one’s personal arrival instead of flight status in general. “Unlike other flight tracking services, which are based on general flight data from dispatcher centers, ArrivedOK tracks one’s actual appearance in the destination airport, so one’s friends and colleagues are 100 percent sure the person is landed okay.” – says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications.

ArrivedOK has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards in two categories: Best Use of GPS or Location Technology and Experimental & Innovation. ArrivedOK is currently translated into Japanese, French and Russian languages and available as free Public Beta in most countries of the world.

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A thorough article about ArrivedOK at Springwise.com:

Travelling by air is fraught with uncertainties, from delays to cancellations to lost bags. Savvy travellers can already use Delaycast to assess their chances of having to wait longer than they’d planned, and now another brand-new service helps them notify the people who matter to them once they finally land safely on the ground.

ArrivedOK, a new service from Texas-based Eyeline Communications, lets air travellers automatically alert others that they’ve arrived at their destination. Users of the service, which just entered public beta, begin by scheduling their flight with the destination airport and expected arrival time, along with the phone numbers or emails of the contacts they’d like to be notified once they arrive. They can also compose personalized messages to be sent to different groups of recipients. They turn off their mobile phone during the trip, as generally required; then, when their plane lands and they turn it back on, ArrivedOK tracks their cell phone in the mobile network and instantly sends those tailored ‘Arrived OK’ messages to the designated recipients via SMS, email, Twitter or the user’s blog. (Recipients must subscribe to a GSM/UMTS network for phone notification.) ArriveOK’s technology is even smart enough to discern when a user turns on their phone much earlier than expected—indicating a problem—or when they turn it on in a country other than the one that was planned; in both cases, recipients are not notified, and the user receives an error message instead. The overall result? Not just a simpler and easier process on the traveller’s part, but also a much less expensive one, since ArrivedOK alerts are three to eight times cheaper than calling or texting from abroad, Eyeline says.

ArrivedOK is being beta-tested in 10 countries—Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, South Africa and Spain—through the end of May, and is free during that time. One to try out, partner with, or otherwise get involved in?

Website: www.arrivedok.mobi/hello

Spotted by: Judy McRae

One remark: ArrivedOK now available in all countries except US and China.

One more article: Free 1 year beta test of travel notification service

Watch ArrivedOK video tutorial in English. Learn how it looks like from the inside and how to use it – in only 3 minutes.

This is just to let you know that Public Beta Testing is getting ahead, and we keep receiving AMAZING feedback about ArrivedOK! We want to thank everyone who sent us bug reports and great suggestions. Please keep on going and don’t remember that the prize is 1 year free ArrivedOK subscription!

We also wanna let you know (sh-h-h! a secret) that now we accept beta testers from all countries (except USA and China). An official news release about that will follow. “From all countries” means that we cancelled the country quotas and now users of all mobile networks are able to sign-in. Before that, we automatically and politely turned down attempts to subscribe by users with phone numbers from the countries, which were not on our list.

As to the US and China… As the notice at the Beta Testers sign-up page says:

Notice for U.S. subscribers:
Though you can sign-up with ArrivedOK to check it from the inside, the service is not operational with mobile numbers of US mobile operators for the time being. That means that US phone numbers cannot be authorized for use with ArrivedOK and SMS alerts are not delivered to US numbers. However, users with non-US numbers can successfully use ArrivedOK when arriving to the US (except sending arrival text to US numbers). Learn more about the service availability in the US.

Notice for Chinese subscribers:
The registration for Chinese users is temporarily disabled due to technical reasons. ArrivedOK does not work with mobile numbers of Chinese mobile operators for the time being; you cannot use those numbers to create your ArrivedOK account. However, users from other countries can successfully use ArrivedOK when arriving to China and send SMS alerts to Chinese and other numbers. As soon as the service will be available for Chinese subscribers we will issue a special public notice.

You probably noticed that no web startup these days can live without a lousy Google Maps mashup of some kind or another. Somehow that even become a sign of the web 2.0. Anyway, when it comes to travel using Google maps is probably makes sense, and ArrivedOK is just the case. Take a look at the map of ArrivedOK Beta Testers flight arrivals. We didn’t do Google Maps integration yet, it’s just a screenshot, but I find it interesting and fun. We have multiple arrivals to the same airports but I didn’t put that info in, otherwise the picture would be too messy. You can view that at Google Maps website too. It’s been two weeks since the official Public Beta launch, and the list of countries from which we admit the testers is stil quite limited, yet we have our users flying, landing and getting tracked all over the globe from UK to Australia.

NB: You might notice there are still no landings in the U.S. That’s right, we wrote about that here, and we’re working on that.

Hobart, Australia; Nice, France; Barcelona, Spain; London, UK; Vienna, Austria; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Munich, Germany; Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Budapest, Hungary; Sydney, Australia; Aberdeen, UK; Achinsk (Ачинск), Russia; Moscow (Москва), Russia; Krasnoyarsk (Красноярск), Russia; Kemerovo (Кемерово), Russia; Vladivostok (Владивосток), Russia; Novosibirsk (Новосибирск), Russia.