blog.triptouch

TripTouch is getting some nice traffic lately - we have been mentioned in blogs and newspapers and even Google is starting to take notice of us. Our own internal stats show just over 350K pages views, while Alexa average this week is 20,923 and compete shows 57,575 visitors from the US. This is a nice increase from January.

We’re also getting much more users than before. Many of those come from the US, Italy, UK, India and Israel (yeah, we’re Israeli - and it helps…).

We just launched 3 months ago so these are very good numbers. Now our job is to keep bringing more users of course…

TripTouch’s office is in Ramat Hahayal - a high-tech “park” in Tel-Aviv, just besides the Yarqon Park (which is a real beautiful green thing).

Anyway a couple of days ago we decided to check out a new place they built in the park. It’s a coffee shop plus bicycle store (cycling is the thing today in Israel). Anyway it’s fun to be out in the open. Makes you wonder why we’re doing a web page instead of really traveling, eh?

This is both interesting and funny - in a recent blog post in blogoscoped (a leading blog on google) we were featured - mainly about our technology and content partners. I told them that one of the annoying things about Google is that many maps are in the local language and not in english - so we didn’t even include the Thailand map in TripTouch for example - it was all in Thai. The fun part is that just yesterday google has changed that and added English to all their maps (or at least some of them - we’ll need to check and see which maps are worthy). You can read all about this in that blog post - make sure you read the update at the end.

Good on ye’ Google!

Today we rolled out a small update. We changed the whole linking structure in triptouch - basically making all our URLs nice looking.

Don’t worry though - it’s backup compatible so old links into your trips or photos will still work!

We have been getting some nice press attention lately - from the NY Times, Der Spiegel, wired, and mashable. So people have asked me - “Hey Ron, where are the links to these cool press mentions?”. At first I tried to ignore, but no longer - we now have a press page. Hopefully we’ll have more and more good stuff coming our way!

Well! We have crossed over the 4,000 destinations (4,146 is the current count). It’s good to see that we’re doing this more and more quickly. Good on you Eva!

The other day, we saw (while walking to lunch) what has to be the world’s smallest dog. It turns out that he’s a puppy, but he won’t grow anymore. And I thought it was a mouse at first, check out these photos: (click on them to enlarge - otherwise the dog is too small to see!)

We got a mention in the NY Times - in an technology article about mashups - TripTouch is mentioned as an example for mashups. It’s nice - and we got quite a bit of traffic and users from this link!

We’re proud to offer our very own “2008 Valentine special”. We’ve gathered our 10 most romantic places, and wrote a nice article (well, Eva wrote it, really)

If you’re looking for a honeymoon destination or a romantic getaway - look no further-

TripTouch 2008 Valentine’s special

We have a cool little storm here in Israel, and a couple of days ago we experienced some strong winds - they said it reached 100Km/h, which is a lot here in Israel (where the weather is usually calm).

They claimed that we’re gonna have 8m high waves - so we decided to go and have lunch by the sea to check it out. So we went to Tel-Aviv’s new port, which is a great place, and saw the waves first hand, splashing on the deck. I’m not sure about the 8m stuff but it was impressive and fun. Guy was a bit disappointed, to tell the truth.

But here are a few photos from that exciting event…