Everplaces - Save and share places you love
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If you’re enjoying using Everplaces on your iPhone or iPad, we’d be grateful if you would share this sentiment by rating or reviewing it in the App Store of your country.
In Apple’s system, each country has it’s own App Store where an app needs many reviews to get a rating. Right now we’ve only made the threshold in 2 countries, so your review makes a difference. This will be very helpful for new users as hearing how you use Everplaces will make it easier for them to decide if this is helpful for them too.
HOW TO REVIEW IN APP STORE:
1) On your device go to the App Store
2) Search for “Everplaces”
3) Go to bottom of the description, press “Rating” (first image)
4) Write a review (second image)
Thanks for sharing the love, we appreciate it.
Tine and the rest of team Everplaces.
Kava, yams, no Big Macs and awesome people
By Everplaces’ competition winner Nick Martin, UK
The small island of Tonga is a true gem!
The first thing that strikes you when you land in The Kingdom of Tonga is how big everyone is. 90% of people are considered overweight with 60% clinically obese. The highest in the world and as a result of too much yam I heard. When I took an internal flight up to a northern island I was weighed separate to my luggage at check-in and was designated a seat based on that measurement. The big guys were at the back, equal numbers on each side of the aisle.
The diving is out of this world with incredible vertical and horizontal visibility. I found this crazy German ‘divemaster’ who loved his kava who’d been operating for only a short time himself. We had an amazing amount of freedom to go where we wanted andthe marine life had clearly had very little contact with us humans as they would come to us. Loads of friendly ‘big fish’ on show.
International businesses were illegal at the time which meant a distinct lack of Starbucks, MacDonald’s and any other commercial chain that tend to blight our cityscapes. It’s amazing how tranquil that feature alone can make an environment feel as visiting Hawaii straight after was a shock.
The last thing are the people themselves. A beautifully warm bunch that would gladly welcome me into their homes as I ambled along the street. They love outsiders and there’s not a hint of wanting anything in return like so many other places in the world. They have a thirst for contact with the outside world so I just hope they’re a little bit careful with what they wish for :)
Checkout one of Nick’s fav places on Tonga from his Everplaces collection.
Nick Martin
CEO, Planely (we make flying memorable)
On Friday we had a small review of Everplaces in the German iphone-ticker.de. We’re in beta and not doing any sort of press, but these guys didn’t ask (actually they didn’t even tell us). We’ve forgiven them as the result has been amazing :)
Germans certainly seem to get the point about keeping track of places and organizing location-based info (perhaps not surprisingly, German are admirably organized).
Suddenly Germany is our biggest user base. With more than 4 times more users than in our own country. On second place is the US.
As mentioned, we are trying to fly under the radar at the moment. This is certainly promising for when we launch.
If you want to see the original German review, you can here.
So, as I said. We love Germans.
Tine, CEO
We love maps. Here’s one of the traffic we’ve received to everplaces.com today. Love the spread. Small world!
Hope you have a great weekend. If you’re going to a cool place this weekend, we can fast track your access to the beta so you can save these interesting places. Sign up now on everplaces.com
Tine, CEO
Wohoo! It’s almost weekend again, plus Christmas is near, so we are extra nice today. If you’re going somewhere interesting this weekend and want to jump the beta queue so you can save the places, let us know. Maybe we can help…
We’re still giving access in small batches, according to how early people signed up. But here is your chance to jump the queue if you have great places you’d like to save within the next few days. We love discovering hidden gems and are excited to see all the cool places people take Everplaces. So bring it on!
HOW TO BE FAST TRACKED
Send us a tweet or a facebook message about why you should get access now and we’ll magically move you up the queue. Things to include in the message are the kind of places you want to save or the great location you’re going to.
Tweet Now (remember to include @everplaces so we see it)
Write a Facebook Message now on the Everplaces page
Here’s some good examples of how to jump the queue:
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Everplaces
Today we had a nice visit from Facebook. Some of the Facebook staff members have signed up as beta testers of Everplaces, so they’re always more than welcome to pop by :)
We found that we share a value, and that is putting user experience first. Facebook have internal rules about not building things in ways that would irritate users (“Mark would never allow it”, says John). Even when it comes to making money, Facebook says they try to do advertising in the least obtrusive way. “If we crammed people’s experience with ads we’d make more money in the short run, but lose them in the long run”.
You have to give them, they’ve done fairly well with that strategy. They have 800 million users :) We fully agree. And we promise we will not compromise on your user experience in sharing and saving places you love.
Tine CEO, Everplaces
A lot of our users have told us they would like to be able to save places from other services in Everplaces. For example, Foursquare or Facebook checkins. We’re happy to let you know that we are going to integrate with these services.
Here are some of the services we’re thinking of integrating with. Click here to vote for what you would like first, then you can influence what we develop first. If you have suggestions not listed, then let us know on the voting sheet.
- Foursquare
- Facebook Places
- Google My Places
- Instagram
- Photos from your phone
- Flickr
- Picasa
Our goal is to make Everplaces the fastest and easiest way to keep track of the places you want to remember.
Tine,
CEO, Everplaces
Last Friday we saw a surge of people contacting us because they were going somewhere cool, remarkable or useful and they wanted Everplaces to save and share the places.
This weekend we want to enable this again. So we’re opening for access to create an account for everyone until Sunday. That means that you can get your account right now, jumping the beta queue!
We’re closing access again Sunday evening. Get access now by going to everplaces.com and creating your account.
Here’s some of the reasons people use Everplaces. What’s your reason?
Happy saving and sharing wonderful places!
Tine,
CEO, Everplaces
Here’s our first heat map! These are the locations Everplaces users are saving
because they find the remarkable, noteworthy or interesting.
It’s the first heat map we’ve produced since we opened for users last Tuesday.
We’ll keep them coming, we love infographics!
We are even looking at incorporating a live heat map on our landing page so you
can see what’s being saved right now. It will show us where this wonderful world
is most wonderful.
Tine, CEO
Share your most exotic location by Sunday Nov 20 to win an inspirational travel book from National Geographic: Journeys of a Lifetime.
The book unveils incredible destinations around the globe. Want it? Share your entry on our Facebook or Tweet us @everplaces. The top 3 entries will also be featured on the Everplaces blog.
HOW: Share places you’ve saved in your Everplaces account. (go to the place, click “share”, copy URL, paste URL onto our Facebook Page. Or Share to Twitter (will automatically include @everplaces so we can see it)
WHAT: The prize goes to the most exotic location. So make sure you’ve put your best travel experiences in there.
WHO: Everyone who users Everplaces and loves travel
Happy sharing!
Ani, Community Manager
Going somewhere interesting this weekend and have lots of places you want to save? Let us know and we will give you access right away!
We’re giving access in small batches now, according to how early people signed up. But here is the chance to jump the queue if you have great places you’d like to save within the next few days. All because we love noteworthy places! Whether you’re going to be saving urban art galleries or hiking trails is up to you, we love them all.
HOW TO BE FAST TRACKED
Send us a tweet or a facebook message about why you should get access now and we’ll magically move you up the queue. Things to include in the message is the kind of places you want to save or the great location you’re going to.
Tweet Now (remember to include @everplaces so we see it)
Write Facebook Message now on the Everplaces page
Hope you have an amazing weekend coming up!
Everplaces
So, it’s a big day. We’ve opened for beta and are very excited to hear what you all have to say about Everplaces.
We’re giving access in drips and letting 350 people in per day. We’re doing this because we want to learn from each group of people so we continue to improve the experience.
So if you’ve signed up for the beta, don’t despair. You will soon receive an email with an access code.
The version you can access now is the first version of the product, so there is lots more to come. Soon you will be able to interact with your friends and see their places. And you’ll be able to import data from many sources. So stay tuned.
Enjoy!
Tine Thygesen
Co-Founder