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TripLine
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Official Spin: At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map. That's a very human activity that has been happening for thousands of years. We've added a social layer to that communication so, whether you're a regular person or a rockstar, you can share where you're going, where you are and where you've been with the people you care about. That could be your family, your friends, or all of your fans on the web...it's up to you. And just like in the movies, the Tripline player gives you an animated line moving across the map with a soundtrack. That's appropriate, because our journeys are our own epic tales of discovery and adventure. Press play and see for yourself.

Buzzword Bingo
Allow - App - Browse - Checkin - Connect My Account - Create a map - Edit - Explore - Facebook - Foursquare - Geography - Geolocation - Import Places - Map - My Maps - Recent - Route - Settings - Social web - TripIt

Key Links http://help.tripline.net/ http://www.tripline.net/about/

Headlines http://blog.tripline.net/retiring-our-flash-based-player

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Examples
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App - yes

Tripline lets you create shareable animated maps that you can post right into your Facebook feed or embed on your blog.


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You can now embed the list section of your map in addition to the map player. This is a great way to show off the details of your awesome maps on your own site, and works really well for travelers and food bloggers.

Examples
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=Connected Services=


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Connect with Facebook and automatically find your friends on Tripline. New Facebook App: http://apps.facebook.com/tripline

Along with all of the existing Tripline features, it also has some really cool new maps of your Facebook friends:

1. A map of your Facebook friends' recent checkins 2. A map of where your Facebook friends live now 3. A map of where your Facebook friends grew up

Now, every time you open Facebook, click on the Tripline app and get a geographic view of your news feed and social circle. It's a great way to keep up with your friends, and a lot of fun.

Read the the full announcement on the Tripline blog: http://blog.tripline.net/announcing-our-new-facebook-app

To enhance your experience, Tripline would also like permission to: Why is Tripline asking for these permissions? From Tripline: We ask for extended permissions so you can post your Tripline checkins to Facebook. Go to your Tripline settings to enable this feature.
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Connect with Foursquare and build trips from your checkins. You'll be the mayor of Tripline. 

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Tripline Mobile
It's easy to access your plans on the go. Just point your phone to http://mobile.tripline.net and sign in to access your trips.

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You can now create trips just by uploading a collection of photos! Sign in and go to the create page to get started. It's amazingly fun.

Misc

At the moment, Tripline is 100% self-funded. That means we cover the costs for running the service out of our own pockets and none of us have a salary. Since our launch in August, we've focused primarily on building the product, with the idea being that the most important thing we can do right now is create the best possible experience for you, our users. As the community grows, our commercial opportunities will develop, but for now, we're in investment modeâ•œand happy to be, by the way.When we launched the iPhone app, I felt it made sense to charge $0.99 - the proceeds will help us cover some of our operational costs. I expected that most of the people who purchased the app would be existing, satisfied users and wouldn't mind the small fee. However, the app launch announcement received an unexpected amount of attention (no complaints about that...I actually had to scramble to add an in-app registration form so new users could easily create accounts), so quite a few people who bought the app didn't know the Tripline story. If you're one of those people, be sure to read through http://www.tripline.net/about and know that you're an early and valued member of a growing community. Your participation is the most important thing to us, and your $0.99 definitely helps.

of what's new (it's a lot):

Questions & Answers

We've added an entirely new set of features on the site that you can use to ask and answer questions related to places and/or topics. We think this is going to be a great help for all of you in planning your trips and we also hope it's fun. Now you have a reason for you to come back to Tripline every day to see what people are asking about your favorite places and topics.

When you ask a question, you associate it with a location and/or a topic. We've provided some guidelines on the Ask page to help you. We're very aware that many of you are experienced travelers that probably have more answers than questions, but we encourage you to ask questions anyway. As early members of the Tripline community, we hope that you ask great questions that will set the tone on the site.

Now the fun part: answering questions. This is the area that we're most excited about. Of course you can answer questions with just plain text. In many cases, that's the right way to go. But, when you see a question where a list of places on a map is the answer, you can easily attach one of your existing maps or create a new map using the Tripline Editor. When you attach a map to your answer, it will display below your answer text with all of the detail that you've added. People can then easily copy the places from your attached map and add them to their own maps. This type of structured answer capability is unique to Tripline and we hope you have a lot of fun with it.

Your will also be able to upvote good answers and downvote answers that you feel miss the mark. The answers with the highest aggregate score will be displayed at the top of the answer list on the question page. Votes are anonymous, so all you'll see is a score. We hope this is a nice, easy way for the best information to rise to the top.

If you need clarification on a question, use the comment link under the question text. The person who asked the question will be notified. And, if someone provides a good answer, definitely upvote and also add a quick comment to the answer thanking them.

Above all, have fun and participate!

Places

You'll notice significant enhancements to our place pages. We're now aggregating popular places in regions and also providing the ability for you to follow your favorite places. When you follow a place, your activity feed will display questions about that place from the community so you can jump in and share your local knowledge. Also, the map on your profile page will display the places you're following.

Topics

Topics are now an integral part of the site. You can follow topics (like Surfing, History etc.) and you'll see questions on those topics in your activity feed. When you see a question that you know the answer to, jump in and participate! Also, topics you're following will be displayed under the map on your profile page. Note: We've converted existing Characters to topics.

Trips = Maps

To be as flexible as possible we've decided to change the term "trip" to "map", so what used to be "My Trips" is now "My Maps". Contextually we felt that "trips" created a certain expectation of how the site should be used, and we want you to feel free to create maps for anything, not just trips ;) Don't worry, Tripline is still Tripline.

Your Activity Feed

You'll notice that your activity feed is now front and center on your home page when you sign in. This gives you immediate access to activity from your friends and on all the things that you're following. You may notice some duplicate items if your friends are asking questions about places and topics that you're also following. We're generating multiple records for performance reasons and we'll continue to clean up the feed over time.

Typeahead Search

You'll notice a new search box in the header. It's a typeahead search that you can use to quickly find what you're looking for. Give it a try. Right now the minimum query length is 4 characters, and we'll be shortening that in the next couple of days. We're also in the process of removing duplicate results from search.

Other Notes

- All existing site and mobile functionality is still available - Map thumbnails will now launch a player in a popup window - When you create a new map, we'll zoom you to your start location, but we won't add an initial waypoint. We felt that was a better experience. - We've moved the Lines/No Lines selector in the editor onto the map controls. - Our Facebook app is temporarily unavailable while we add all of this new stuff. You can still sign in with Facebook on the main site and share into your feed. The Facebook app itself will be back online in a few days. - Over the next few days, we're going to be cleaning up a lot of duplicate waypoints in the database. For the time being, you may see quite a few duplicates. Bear with us as we get this done.

Whew! That's it for now. We really hope you enjoy this release. If you have questions, you can now use Tripline to ask questions about Tripline itself :) We'll be sure to answer those as quickly as we can.

Have fun,

Byron & The Tripline Team

Sure thing Ron. If you have a community of users to reach out to, you can have them ask questions about ecotourism on Tripline and then you (as planeta) can answer the questions and attach maps if you're motiviated. Or, you could simply encourage your users to participate. Here's an example: http://www.tripline.net/question/What_are_some_fun_things_to_do_with_kids_in_London_-07704775613010038A05B86ECDA71D3AOtherwise, you can certainly just use Tripline to create maps that you can embed on the planeta site. Be sure to associate your maps with topics like: http://www.tripline.net/topic/Ecotourism and http://www.tripline.net/topic/Green+Travel so people can discover them.

Facebook

1. Connect your Tripline account to your Facebook fan page 2. Publish your Tripline checkins to the fan page instead of your personal profile page 3. Add a "Tripline Maps" tab to your fan page

Read the full announcement and instructions on our blog: http://blog.tripline.net/new-features-for-facebook-fan-pages/