Sorry for taking a blog-break but we had a lot of exciting stuff going on that kept us really busy.
Now we are back with exciting news and more to come in the next days.
So what is new?

We have updated the interest pages on all sites of the GoSeeTell Network. The new user-interface makes it a lot easier to quickly pick the things you like - or hate - to do when traveling.

Why should you fill out your interests?
We will give you two very good reasons: the interests allow you to search and find members who share your passions and lifestyle.

And in a second step you can also see the places these users - your AlterEgos - like to go.

And voilà you have recommendations for places you should visit, created not by an editor, not by a computer, not by an advertising agency - no, created by people just like you who happen to like the same things you do.

But there is more to come, stay tuned!

Pictures say more than a thousand words …. and so we decided to add photos to all tips and reviews. Want to share photos from your vacation of hotels, restaurants, attractions and more - just upload your photos and add them to your tip or review.

But wait! Videos say more than a thousand pictures.
So we decided to throw in a video upload tool as well. Just for the fun of it …

As of today you will be able to subscribe to RSS feeds on various levels for all sites of the GoSeeTell Network.

Some examples:
- Feeds for all new tips for each site (Fun Stuff - New tips)
- Feeds for each of the over 90,000 cities featured on the GoSeeTell Network (”Newest tips”)
- Personalized feeds with recommendations for each user and for each of the 90,000 cities (”Things you might like”)

Just look for the little orange RSS symbols to add your feed.

If you are not sure what RSS feeds are, you can learn more at Wikipedia.

User you can trust now look even better! In an improvements to the sites of the GoSeeTell Network we now show the Trustiness for each user as a green bar under each user photo. The more green in the bar, the more trustworthy the user. A mouse-over the bar show the exact number for the Trustiness of the user. Now judging who you can trust is even easier!

Have you looked at your Passport lately? We are talking about your Passport page, not your paper document.

Over the last days the Passport pages have gotten a complete make-over. The pages not only look prettier, it is also much easier to quickly find all relevant information. Now it is even easier to connect with other users, find places they like and read reviews they have written.

But this is not all. We have also redesigned the process for adding tips and reviews. Instead of 4 steps it now takes only 2 steps to add your opinion and you can manually place a marker on the map for the place you are writing about (if you want to).

Happy tip-writing!

In a major milestone we have released the first version of our recommendation tool on the sites of the GoSeeTell Network.
Registered users are now able to see on the overview page for each city a list of 5 places that they might find interesting.

The suggestions are generated by comparing the places the respective users has rated and his/her interests (according to the user’s profile) with those of other users. The more information a user provides in form of ratings and profile information, the more accurate the recommendations are.

To see the recommendation tool at work:
- Sign-up as a user
- Enter some of your interests in your profile page
- Rate cities and places you know (in any of the 90,000 cities in the database)
- Have a look at cities like Portland, Frankfurt or Munich to get your personal recommendations

As next steps we will start displaying recommendations for the individual categories (e.g. restaurants in New York City, hotels in Barcelona etc.).
After that (and once we have more data-points) the AlterEgoTrips tool will be rolled out. The tool will allow users to get one-click recommendations for the destinations in the database.

It took us a while but we are finally getting started, the great GoSeeTell Blog is on the way!