Explore your city with Tupalo
By DavidReece • Oct 2nd, 2007 • Category: News, Technology
According to its creators, Tupalo is “social mapping for local culture, allowing members to share and review their favorite locations around the world”. Intrigued, I ventured onto the site to do a little exploring for myself…
The service is basically a social network wrapped around Google Maps technology, and it all looks pretty nice, with user reviews and star-ratings for bars, restaraunts and anything else you care to stick on a map. It reminds me of the premise behind MojoPages, except the execution is far more intuitive, and caters for a more global audience.
Austrian based Tupalo.com OG say..
Tupalo is for locals and visitors alike who want to know where the best venues, record stores, vegetarian cafes, salons or fringe fashion boutiques are in their area. We are currently in an open beta, but are continually adding new features and improving the service before our launch in late 2007.
In its current state, there just aren’t enough locations yet to be of any use, but given time (and the efforts of early adopters) this could be a pretty handy addition to your bookmarks. I’m just a bit dissapointed at the lack of anything from the UK on there. I’d add some myself, but.. well, you know how it is.
Update - Since posting this review, Mike from Tupalo sets the record straight regarding the UK (see comments)…
We are in fact very early in development with a launch planned throughout Europe early next year. This includes the UK, which we aren’t supporting during our testing phase, but can’t wait to have in Tupalo.
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Hi and thanks for writing about Tupalo! We are in fact very early in development with a launch planned throughout Europe early next year. This includes the UK, which we aren’t supporting during our testing phase, but can’t wait to have in Tupalo.
Regarding content, which I completely agree with you on,
our vision behind Tupalo is to serve as a user-generated local reviews directory for a very selective community. As opposed to many other services which pre-fill their content with bought directory lists.
As we develop towards a more public launch, we are doing our best to improve the intuitiveness of our service and make it as easy and as lightweight as possible for our community to contribute the best stuff in their neighborhood.
This, in our view, is more challenging, yet keeps us more relevant and useful to our community, which after all is the most important thing.
Thanks again and if you’re ever in Vienna, feel free to look us up.
Thanks for the update Mike, good luck with the project!
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