Here’s a nice piece about ArrivedOK in FOX 26 News, Houston: Auto-Text Friends When
Your Plane Lands / Website of the Day
We at Arrivedok.mobi deployed an experimental mobile Twitter add-on application that lets you tweet from your cell phone FOR FREE even from abroad, avoiding charges for SMS, voice or data transfer.
It is available for ArrivedOK registered users only.
How to use it and save money on text and data traffic:
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| Dial +442033550595. You won’t hear a voice reply. Your call just evokes the interactive menu you’ll see next. | You’ll see the numbered menu. Press OK, enter “1″ (no quote marks) for Twitter, and send it back. | Likewise, choose between the options that appear: (1) tweet whatever you want, (2) preview & tweet a random quotation, (3) tweet your followers about that mobile tool, “0″ to return. |
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| For example, you choose “1> Type & tweet”. You see the usual “What are you doing?” Twitter prompt. Press OK and start typing… | … like that. Then press OK to send it. That’s it. | You’ll get a confirmation that your tweet has been sent. You can just hang up now. |
WARNING: It may not work in all mobile networks. For support inquiries, please visit our Support page or email to our techsupport@.
If you want to learn more about the underlying Call2Service and USSD technologies – check out that page.
- “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.
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:
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.
For support inquiries, please visit our Support page
Follow ArrivedOK on Twitter: twitter.com/arrivedok
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“The era of cheap travel is over. Its not the easiest time to involve in a global backpacking trip that lessens our wallets today, and the cost of international travel remains high. So you need to be pretty resourceful. And one of the big phenomena of recent years is couchsurfing – online networks that link you up with someone in a faraway place willing to let you stay in their home for free.”
See the BBC News piece about couchsurfing below. It’s about traveling to Tokyo, one of the world’s most expensive cities. So, if you decided to couch-surf to save money, why not saving a little bit more on international roaming charges by using ArrivedOK to automatically notify both your friends at home and your host at your destination that you just arrived?
Check it for yourself: if an Orange UK subscriber makes three 1 minute calls from Singapore to UK (to wife, mother, and boss), he totally pays £4,35. If, instead of calling, he sends 3 text messages, he pays £1,50. With ArrivedOk he can do the same for just £0,50. Not mentioning that it is completely free now, while Public Beta Testing lasts. See how it works.
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