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!

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 …

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.

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!

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.