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!

Of course, in the world where stories are made up – (for those who are interested in HOW – see instructions here) – this CNN news come as no surprise. (Remember this great movie?).

What to make out of it? Check out Trip Advisor or other similar services that help making things closer to reality with masses of UGC (user generated content).

And, FYI, Lonely Planet rejects these claims.

ComScore analyst Gian Fulgoni has shared some interesting data on social networking abroad. Among the findings, Fulgoni notes that there are actually more social networking users (as measured by unique visitors) in Asia-Pacific (where Friendster leads) and Europe (where Bebo leads) than in North America. Read more

Source: mashable.com: SOCIAL NETWORK NEWS

Additional link and resources

Tripit.com – online itinerary. Cool.

BootsnAll, Gusto, Real Travel, TripTie, Virtual Tourist, WAYN, Wikitravel and World66 are just a sampling of the proliferation of community sites where users share itineraries, adventures and other travel information…

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