The Official Tupalo.com Blog

Today we are announcing an often requested and long awaited awesome feature which gives users the chance to tweet their reviews. With the rise of twitter we at Tupalo.com see that a strong connection between our Application and Twitter as a distribution service is crucial. However we didn’t want to simply implement some Tweetmeme button but do our own thing. When checking the box you are being redirected to twitter.com where you need to be logged in to tweet this.

This gives your reviews another chance to distribute and share what you think of certain spots. Give it and try and let us know if you like it.

Glam Media, the pioneering vertical advertising network, Today launched Brash Germany, their premium vertical ad and content network targeting male demographics. Featured in the launch was social yellow pages startup, Tupalo.com, a premium launch partner included in Brash’s ”Food and Drink” category, joining 25 other top launch partners, including fellow Vienna startup and good pals of ours, Kununu.com.

Tupalo.com is now a proud premium publisher in the Glam Media and Brash family in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan, working together with brands such as T-Mobile, HP, Suzuki and many more premium names.

Techcrunch Europe yesterday announced their Techcrunch Europas award nominees, and not only is Tupalo.com nominated for Best Web Application Or Service, but we’re joined in the nominations by 3 other excellent Vienna-based startups!

Friends of Tupalo.com can easily vote for us by visiting the Techcrunch Europas Best Web Application Or Service category, scroll down and choose Tupalo and then submit away.

In addition, our friends at Soup.io (Best Bootstrapped Startup, Less Than 3 Years Old), tripwolf (Best Web Application Or Service) and Vooch (Best Bootstrapped Startup, Less Than 3 Years Old) have also been nominated, which gives Vienna a pretty strong showing at this years’ Europas awards!

We’ve got a little but really nifty feature for you out there, which we deployed today - and it’s already real fun using it. Ever thought of writing a blog post on some cool bar or so? Then, that’s the right tool for you. You can pinpoint any spot on Tupalo within your blog posts. But let me give you an example:

Well, yesterday we had great lunch at Il Sestante and enjoyed it.

Woop, there it is. We call them Tupalinks - a beautiful blend of Permalinks and Tupalo Icons. When you go to a spot page you’ll see a little  box in the right sidebar with an embedable code. Just copy and paste this code anywhere on the Internet and you’ll be able to paste any spot anywhere on the Web. This should make it easy for you to share your most loved spots around the planet wherever you want. The Icon in front of the respective spot is obviously corresponding to what type of spot it its. Just give it a try and you’ll see that it graphically enhances your i.e. blog posts, however doesn’t mess up it’s text flow.

Enjoy!

We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership and round of investment with Austria’s leading publisher of yellow page data and directories, HEROLD Business Data.

What does this mean?
We will still continue as the lightweight, independent company we’ve always been, only we’ll be a few more people twisting and turning all the knobs (keep an eye on our jobs page in the near future).

Expect some aggressive moves forward with product and features as we devote more resources to incorporating all of the great feedback we continually receive from our users and moving the platform forward, more quickly. In addition expect to see hundreds of thousands more Austrian business listings on Tupalo.com and plan on seeing more Tupalo.com related activities in and around the cities of Austria, as we announce more partnerships, community events and other exciting goodies for our users old and new.

For local business owners, with HEROLD as a strategic partner, we’ll be able to work together to provide restaurants, cafes, hotels, salons and more local businesses and services in Austria, additional ways of marketing their brands by utilizing user-generated content and the social graph, expanding on the ways they already market their business online with HEROLD.

We’re very excited about the news Today and want to thank all of our dedicated users who have been Tupaleros since the very beginning, we look forward to meeting you all in person at Tupalo.com meetups and events around Austria in the very near future.

Read the full press release

Die Presse, one of Austria’s leading press outlets, has graciously chosen Tupalo.com as their culture tip of the week, telling their readers how the social yellow pages community helps them discover local shops, local businesses and more in their neighborhood using reviews and photos.

We already knew that of course, but we’re very excited to have Die Presse’s Sunday readers now know that as well.

The Tupalo Wien community will be out in force tonight, 30th of April, at the Beat Patrol Spring Edition party in Vienna, Austria.

Sponsored by The New Design University / WIFI, Tupalo.com, The Gap Magazine and many more.

Look for lots of free Tupalo.com swag and even a few familiar faces.

So as Younoodle gains steam, we wanted to compile a list of some (or most) of the Austrian startups on Younoodle Scores.

If you are registered on Younoodle and not following the below startups (especially us!), then warm up your follow fingers and get going.

123people

Cityflats4you

Facesaerch

Mindmeister (Technically based in Munich & Vienna)

Popurls / Tomatic

Soup.io (Vienna-based, for now)

System One

Tripwolf

Tunesbag

Tupalo

Vienna Street Style

“Lately, however, another qualifier has entered the mix in the form of
user generated reviews. The most popular user generated review sites
include Yelp, Insider Pages, Judy’s Book, Mojo Pages, Tupalo, YellowBot and LittleEngine.”

–DirectoryOne.com

Hi! We’ve been in a bit of a slumber the past few months, but we apologize! We’re going to be back up and blogging more about the stuff in my, your and our neighborhoods very very soon!

In the meantime, here’s a fresh scan from the new issue of the great Austrian music magazine, The Gap, featuring a short story on internet startups and a big ole picture of Mike from Tupalo. Also joining in the article, Last.fm, Moo, Dopplr, Soup.io and Tripwolf.