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Announcing the yondr “where u at?” iphone app

yondr — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:26:49 +0000

Announcing the available of the yondr “where u at” micro-blogging iphone application on the itunes store. Yondr “where u at?” blog is about capturing and sharing exciting moments as they happen in life, creating a geo-tagged story as it unfolds.

Whether you are on vacation, enjoying a concert, promoting a cause – wherever you are and whatever you are up to …. Yondr lets you blog your life’s moments and share them in real time as footprints on a map !

Using the Yondr iphone app you can start blogging in 3 simple steps: Capture your photo or video – Add a note – and Post! … let Yondr do the rest!

Yondr displays your geo-tagged posts on a map so your friends can follow your trail as you blog ! Share your blog posts in real time with friends and family on yondr, facebook, and twitter – all with one-click.

Follow your friends footprints as they update their blog in real-time.

Yondr community features lets you manage your privacy settings. You control who can and cannot follow you. You can choose to keep you blog private or public. A one-time setup lets you automatically forward your posts to Facebook and Twitter

Enjoy the same user-friendly features on the “where u at?” web application as well. View blogs in a single panel mode OR in an impressive story-board view. Also create and share stories using the ‘saved search’ feature as you would with Google maps

Go ahead share your moments with yondr!

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Announcing – The “where u at” Facebook application

yondr — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:29:50 +0000

Tell your friends on Facebook ‘where u at’ using yondr’s geo-aware micro-blog: have them follow you!

Set it up once to automatically post your travel footprints from “where u at?” to your Facebook wall (can always turn if off). Thats all there is to it!

Friends on Facebook can click on your post to see “where u at” with geo-mapped photos, and videos. Make sharing your travels more exciting!

Announcing – Tweet your “where u at” blog!

yondr — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:36:41 +0000

Post your photos and videos to “where u at?” and share it on twitter at the same time. Set this up once in one simple step and automatically share your posts from “where u at?” to Twitter. You can turn this off at any time.

Followers on Twitter can click on your tweets to see your travel footprints on a map with photos and videos.Its as simple as that !

Latest in travel mashups – a multimedia Trip Journal

yondr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:15:59 +0000

We are pleased to announce beta release of the much awaited Trip Journal. Its a travel mashup application, an online book, a digital diary, a multi-media trip journal, its a publishing tool …….. no matter what you called it … this takes sharing your travels experiences to a whole different level. The genesis of this application was to give the traveler the means to relive and share their experience in a unique way!

Trip Journal Publisher

Trip Journal viewer

Check out some of the sample featured journals.

Click here to learn more about it

So here is the pitch ….

Simple drag and drop rich media application to create & share your online travels journal
Create journals using a feature-rich Trip Journal Publisher:
- add photos, videos, text, import content from popular photo & video sites
- Interactive mapping tool to show the place you’ve been on this trip
- Write a review of a hotel or tour operator
- Accessorize journals with journals cover, page styles and stickies
Share your experience as an exciting, interactive Trip Journal Flip-book.
Publish your journals on your Facebook wall

Go ahead create own own!

Back from Africa

yondr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:45:54 +0000

One of best parts of doing this startup is traveling to exotics places and meeting with some interesting people. My business partner and I got back last month from a 2-week trip to Rwanda and Uganda.

Amahoro gorilla family siblings at play

While in Kigali, we took the opportunity to go Gorilla trekking in the Vocanoes National Park. Our friend Manzi Kayihura (of Thousand Hills Expeditions) managed to organize park permits at such short notice. The day started with an exhilarating trek through the cultivated foothills of the Virunga mountains. Then, abruptly, the trail entered the national park, immersing trekkers in the mysterious intimacy of the rainforest, alive with the calls of colorful birds and chattering of the rare golden monkey. But nothing prepares one for the impact of encountering a fully-grown silver back gorilla. They are so remarkably peaceful, playful and tolerant of human visitors. We spent an hour watching the gorillas as they go about their daily routine, feeding, playing and resting.

See other videos of Rwanda

Slideshow of Safari through Murchison National Park, Ugana

The following week we hopped on over to Uganda, which is about an hour flight from Kigala to Kampala. Kelly Munga (of Pearl of Africa Tours), a friend of ours recommended that we spend a couple of days at Murchison National Park, six hours drive from Kampala. The diversity of Murchsinon is quite unique - from rolling savannah and tall grasslands to thick bush and woodlands to marshes. We stayed at the Nile River lodge, which is a quaint lodge on the banks for the river Nile, with a great view overlooking the Nile. Besides the obvious game drives to the park, the Nile boat cruise is a must. Though I would recommend getting a private motor boat which is rather inexpensive.

See other photos of Rwanda and Uganda
See other videos of Rwanda and Uganda

Blogging with just text is so passe …. check out the new micro-blog : where u at?

yondr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:29:11 +0000

As I travelled to far flung locations across the world, I often wanted an easy way to share my travels with friends and family while on the go. Traditional blog sites were too time consuming, and twitter lacked the tools to share my location or photos. So, we started on this concept of a simple web and mobile micro-blog where users could share quick travel footprint visually on a map by posting text, photos and videos – all in the context of where u at?. The Where u at? application senses your location automatically, so when you post to your blog, it not just a blah text post, instead what you share is a location-aware, multi-media post. Moreover, we wanted the user to manage who can and cannot follow you as opposed to a bunch of strangers following your footprints (sorry Aston!)

You can learn more about it here

Drag-and-drop utility for reordering photos

yondr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:33:53 +0000

Re-ordering of your pictures now make simple. When publishing your photos, click on ‘reorder’ to launch utility. Simply drag and drop pictures in album and save.

One-click upload of your photos from Picasa desktop to Yondr

yondr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:19:07 +0000

If you use Google’s Picasa desktop software to organize your photos, we just made uploading from Picasa to YONDR a whole lot easier. Simply add the “yondr” upload button to Picasa. Click here for instructions.

BTW – you can also import photos from Picasa web, Flickr, facebook, Smugmug, Photobucket, Webshot, and fotopic.

Customize your MAP-IT view

yondr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:14:48 +0000

You no longer have to see a default world level map view for MAP-IT. Now you can add your location, and adjust the zoom and pan settings to best show all your pins/location, and select DONE to save. NOTE – If you add new locations, you must adjust the display settings, else the display will be focused on the last pin added.

No more white borders…. crop your profile picture to fit !

yondr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:08:27 +0000

Go to your profile page and mouseover your picture. Click on edit symbol to launch the profile phicture crop utility. You can also get to it from my account: profile layout tab – click on crop symbol to launch tool (http://www.yondr.com/index.php?q=hornbill/profile_layout)