News and chat about and around ArrivedOK - the Personal Flight Arrival Tracker and mobile tool for travelers like you to instantly notify your friends and family when you arrive at airports worldwide
 

ArrivedOK Launches Facebook Application

11 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Applications, ArrivedOK News, Community, Travel Apps, Web 2.0

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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What people say about ArrivedOK – updated

06 May   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Air Travel, Applications, Travel, Travel Apps, Trends

We keep on receiving responses about ArrivedOK. Here are some of them. Thanks to everyone who took a look at the service, your feedback is very inspiring!

“Simple, clear, and straightforward,.. convenient service” – KillerStartups.com

“This is a brilliant concept! Bravo!” – Dr. Jessie Voigts from Wanderingeducators.com

I am definitely going to use this next time we fly somewhere!” – Sandy Nielsen, Sleeps5.com

“I can see a pretty nice potential to something like this. I will be traveling in a few months throughout the states as well as Europe, and could really use something like this.” – Nick via blackberrycool.com

“Thank you thank  you thank you. You are one of the few sites that care about all people not just the ones with out disabilities. I commend you guys for that and might feature you on a podcast I do for this purpose. Check it out at feeds2.feedburner.com/funfilled – Sarah Alawami.

“Very cool!” – @Hdueitt, New York, NY.

“Neat!” – Emmanuel Marot, Seattle, WA

“Brilliant.” – Travelbuzz NY

“What a nice idea!” – Joe Distefano, Melbourne.

“Excellent traveler’s essential” – Frans-Jozef, Manchester, UK.

“Do you have a mother like mine? Neurotic? She always wants to know when my plane has landed.” – Suzanne Dowling, San Francisco, CA.

“Ah hah. Another neat idea that came flying into my inbox this afternoon… It’s called ArrivedOK. Peace of mind. Especially for mum.” – Mobile Industry Review.

“If you’ve ever flown, you know what’s like to call and tell everyone you made it.” – @JasonClough, Raleigh, NC.

“Seems like ArrivedOK idea is pretty neat.” – @feebeyer, Berlin.

“ArrivedOK is a great idea.” – @jaketay, Australia.

“Wow. arrivedok.mobi is ridiculously clever little thing for anyone who travels. Sends predefined texts when you switch your phone back on.” – @Ana Nelson, Dublin, Ireland.

“Definitely cool use of technology.” by Craig Agranoff from Scommerce.com

“I #arrivedOK to London. Beta testing ArrivedOK. If you see this then I just arrived at London LHR and it works!..” – Jonathan Clark, Amsterdam.

When it seemed that everything was invented!..” – @nicolasariza, Medellín – Here comes ArrivedOK [A.D].

ArrivedOK: now there’s a piece of clever telecoms technology. Sometimes there arrives a perfect solution to a real problem.” – Pat Phelan, Ireland.

Andy Abramson, Del Mar, CA: “A very imaginative service… As a global nomad this kind of service is ideal for me, especially with my family and colleagues. I regularly text the word “landed” when I touch down using either SMS or the built in Blackberry Messenger to those on my Messenger Buddy List internally… I imagine the service will be very useful to the frequent flier types who have to be working anywhere at any time. From my perspective, ArrivedOk will cut down on a task that for some can be time consuming or just challenging. They smartly have also included email as a notification mechanism.”

“You’re really a bit surprised nobody thought of this before.” – David Sims, TMCnet, at his article about ArrivedOK.

“See, this way, your personal arrival is noted instead of flight status in general, so when you oversleep your nine-hour Dubai layover, or miss your connecting flight in Heathrow, you don’t have anybody tapping their toes at the airport for hours while you’re still over the Atlantic Ocean. Not that that’s happened to this reporter either, no siree. No personal experience there, spending two hours traveling out to the Istanbul Airport, waiting three hours and returning home empty-handed only to have to go back later that night.”

“If you’re tired of picking up the phone and calling half a dozen people every time you land in a new city to let them know you arrived OK, you might want to check out a new service called… ArrivedOK.” – Downloadsquad.com

“As passengers, once we’ve safely arrived at our destination, we power up our Blackberries and iPhones to let our loved ones know that the flight is over… Whether we make a call, send a text, update our Facebook status or “tweet” it on Twitter, we feel compelled to let our friends and family know we arrived OK… But the next time I fly, I won’t be calling my mom, boyfriend or roommate to let them know I’m safely sitting on the tarmac waiting to access the overhead compartment. Because next time I’m going to use ArrivedOK.”- Vacationplanning.net: Flight Tracker Cleared for Takeoff.

“ArrivedOK is a clever service that texts loved ones when you land at your destination and turn on your phone. It would be quite useful as an everyday shorter-journey service too. My mother-in-law-to-be always forgets to text us when she arrives home in Carlow from Waterford.” – Paul M. Watson, Waterford, Ireland.

“Touch down in another country, and it’s likely the first thing you’ll want to do is let friends and famly know you’ve reached your destination safe and sound. But dialing direct means those dastardly international roaming rates kick in… This kind of traveler dilemma is what makes us especially intrigued by ArrivedOK… Along with the convenience of being able to alert multiple people at once, the app means you’re bypassing the hefty international charges you’d incur for voice, text and email services via your cell phone while traveling abroad.” – lorraine @ travelpost.com: Skip International Roaming Rates with ArrivedOK Phone App.

“Interesting new service called ArrivedOK. It works in a unique way…” – Ronen Halevy via berryreview.com

Watch ArrivedOK Video Tutorial

16 Apr   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Applications, ArrivedOK News, Flight Trackers, How-to, Internet

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

“Definitely cool use of technology.”

14 Apr   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: Travel Apps

A nice post about ArrivedOK by Craig Agranoff, the editor of sCommerce and www.rev2.org:

How many people do you call when your airplane lands? If you’re like most, you probably dial at least three or four people to tell them you’ve arrived OK, that you’re on (or off) schedule, etc. Well, ArrivedOK hopes to change that and make it easier… [read more]”

A comment to Craig’s post is also good: “I guess this is a good thing because now I don’t have to hear them blab into their cell phones the second the plane arrives at the gate.”