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.

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

Source: Time.com | Travel | Technology | Texting Back Home.
“When you’re traveling domestically, it’s easy to let people know you’ve arrived, but when flying abroad, what with the time difference and the roaming charges on your cell phone, it can be tricky. ArrivedOK lets you automatically tell the home team that you’ve landed, via text or email. Register your flight, along with the destination airport, estimated arrival time, along with any phone numbers or email addresses to which you’d like to send a notification. The ArrivedOK system tracks your cell phone and when you turn it on after landing it instantly sends “Arrived OK” messages to people on your list. If you become one of the beta testers now, you get a one-year free subscription.”

We know that ArrivedOK is completely new kind of service, which hardly falls into existing app categories related to travel and flight status reporting. How would you call ArrivedOK? (Please, don’t forget that it’s not only tracking flights; it tracks one’s personal arrival and alerts your buddies about it).

How would you define ArrivedOK?

• Personal Arrival Messenger
• Personal Landing Alert Service
• Personal Flight Tracker
• Personal Arrival Tracker
• Flight Arrival Alert Service
• Flight Tracker & Arrival Messenger
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A funny post at LSE Media@LSE group blog about why gaming consoles are bad. Ridiculous is the reasoning of the regulatory organization mentioned in the article: the XBox 360 and Playstation are having similar energy footprints to fridges. Time to raise the alarm!:)
Well, I’m curious if anybody have calculated the energy footprint of ‘Honey I’m home’ phone calls? Or ‘I’ve just landed’ phone calls. Altogether with the footprint of those cellular base stations in the airports when 417 or 555 passengers (Boeing 747 and Airbus 380 capacity respectively) start calling all together at once after landing. Don’t forget all switches and other network equipment through which the voice call is delivered to the recipient who may be on the another side of the globe… A little bit more than a fridge, I guess!
In that respect one can consider ArrivedOk as a greenest mobile travel application ever! It lets environmentally conscious passengers avoid those calls, still having their recipients notified about their arrival by just turning their cell phones on.