May 22nd, 2008. Filled in Buzz, Events, Features.
Back from the beautiful Barcelona where we attended the Startup 2.0 (congratulations to the winners: Zilok, UnLtdWorld and iFoods), we are now finishing a comment system for Wolpy, that will let you to contact with other users and ask them anything about their trips and visited places.
After that, we are going to focus on all the features requested by you these days: user search, an easy way of suggesting new places, several ways to order your visited places… We have so much work to do!
Oh! By the way, El País, one of the most important newspapers in Spain, has published an article about the three Spanish projects who were finalists in Startup 2.0: Bubok, Planetaki and Wolpy. Although they mispelled our names and age, it’s a cool article. You can read an automatic translated version here.
May 12th, 2008. Filled in Buzz, Events.
Wow! We can hardly believe it but we are one of the 10 finalist projects to be presented in Startup 2.0 in Barcelona next Wednesday, May 21st. We are so happy to have been selected among over 300 projects!.
The other 9 finalists are:
- iFoods: video recipe site with food community
- UnLtdWorld: connecting social entrepreneurs
- Bubok: online self-publishing tool
- Geospace: about places and people
- AllRise: online community courthouse
- Planetaki: create a web aggregator easily
- Talicius: a community to allow talented people to show their skills and help them to promote themselves.
- Learnit lists: a widget which helps people learn language by seeing 10 words a day
- Zilok: online rental marketplace where anyone can rent or rent out absolutely anything
We really miss in the list some of our friends’ amazing projects: Ipoki, Unvlog (which get the 4th and 5th score on the vote system in the website of the contest), Forvo, minube, SoZiety, visualizeus… you all rock!
Thank you so much to all of you who voted for us and to the jury for selecting us! Now we are going to prepare our 5 min. presentantion for the next week :)
April 27th, 2008. Filled in Buzz, Features.
We are very excited about how our early preview was received by users, bloggers and friends everywhere. We wanted to thank you all for that. We appreciate a lot all the blog posts, tweets and mails received during this five days since we launched.
All the feedback received is very valuable and we are working hard on some new features inspired on it.
We have fixed several small bugs and also we released two small features you can enjoy now:
- Enlarge your map. This allows you to see your map in full screen mode. Some of you asked for that and we agree it’s cool to see the map with your visited places this way. Here is an example of an enlarged map.
- New reviews displayed in home page. If you want to see the fresh activity happening in Wolpy now we are listing last reviews and registered users in our home page.
We are also planning to launch, in a few days, a search engine for places. You will be able to search places by name and discover who have visited this location and read the reviews shared by the visitors.
One more time, thank you all! We are now more than 300 registered users in Wolpy and we hope to continue growing this community with your help!
Oh! I almost forget! We are participating in the Startup 2.0 contest, a competition of European startups where all the contestants are very interesting projects that make us feel very proud to be there, fighting for a position in the top 10, being only five days old. If you have enjoyed Wolpy, please, consider voting for us :)
