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Mike Borras

Vienna

Vienna Block Party on Kirchengasse!

Kirchengasse Vienna

Home to many excellent young fashion designers, artists and creative types, Kirchengasse, is one of our favorite streets in Vienna, Austria. From the hand-screened fashion of  the Motmot Shop, to the hip sportiness on sale at the Zapateria, to the hand-made pasta and desserts at Spirali, Kirchengasse is happening and provides everything for the connoisseur of all things modern and happening.

Other fans of Kirchengasse now have a second chance to gather and celebrate their love of the street, with the second Kirchengasse Block Party happening in the early evening of Friday, April 30, 2010, featuring special deals, music and plenty of hang-out time on the sidewalks, meeting the neighbors, designers and business owners on the street. We’ll be walking around

Announcements

Tupalo.com goes Denmark!

We’re excited to announce Tupalo’s launch troughout Denmark!

In cooperation with our strategic partner, Denmark’s leading directory and lead-generation provider, De Gule Sider, we are releasing all local business data today and therefore launch the danish version of Tupalo.com publically.

The head of Online Marketing of De Gule Sider, Carsten Kjems Fald, appreciates this cooperation and comments:
“When De Gule Sider® chooses partnerships, we look for strong, innovative companies that has an ability to provide out of the box solutions. The partnership with Tupalo gives an extra dimension to our media, and our users a positive user experience.”

We are happy that, Tupalo.com is now both offering an additional social layer to the yellow-page-provider De Gule Sider, and manages to continue growing as an independent start-up and being considerate of our Tupaleros.

Tourists going to Denmark now have the opportunity to discover restaurants, cafes or hotels in Copenhagen or anywhere else in Denmark.

In the Press

Deutsche-Startups visits the Tupalo.com Vienna office

Deutsche-Startups.de, the premier German internet and high-tech startups blog, visited the Tupalo.com Vienna office recently and have posted a great photo report of their short visit. As part of their “Hausbesuch”  series, featuring other visits to services like Xing, Sharewise, Sofatutor and more, Deutsche-Startups joined us on our weekly beer day to look around and document our day. Many thanks to Hannes Schwetz at start.up for documenting the visit in photos!

Tupalo.com team at the office

Announcements

We’ve built a nifty review Widget

Ever thought of how cool it would be to be able to review a business from outside of Tupalo? Imagine a business owner, having a website of their business, and a person who understands the importance of reviews on the web, now can add their personal Tupalo.com Review Widget to their Website or any other Outlet such as a company blog. The Widget not only shows the latest reviews, but it also let’s one actively review it!

On every spot’s site you’ll now find a link to the spot’s individual Widget and after customizing it you can simply copy and paste the source code provided. It automatically resizes, so you can also put it in your blog’s sidebar or column-like spaces.

We are really happy to show you this, especially because we haven’t seen such a thing anywhere on the Web. In saying that, we hope for interested business owners out there, willed to integrate this, gather worthwile reviews and ultimately attract new customers.

Here’s the widget in live action:


Reviews of Motto on Tupalo.com

Tupalo

Tupalo.com goes Larger Than Life

The Tupalo.com office in the heart of Vienna, Austria has gone Larger Than Life, thanks to our good friends at LTLprints, who recently delivered a package full of beautiful graphics for us to stick around our walls. LTLprints create premium wall graphics, similar to stickers, only not exactly! Their prints are ultra high quality, using a patented print technique, which outputs 1440 dpi wall stickers on premium 10 mil re-positionable fabric paper, which can be removed and re-used up to 100 times, and be up to 7 feet tall!

Our favorite is our giant Tupalo.com logo, here greeting anyone who walks into our office:

Closeup of Tupalo.com wall logo

Though naturally we also love Tupalero Hill, which runs along the baseboards of our whiteboard wall

Tupalero Hill at Tupalo.com

Also, our light fixtures and Carpe Diem drink area has the Tupalo.com map marker treatment

Walking into the Tupalo.com office

Tupalo.com and Carpe Diem

See more of our LTLprints and our office at the Tupalo.com Flickr stream

Local Businesses

Tupalove @ STIL-LADEN

One of Vienna’s most beautiful boutiques for sneaker collectors, skaters and skate fashionistas, Shopping in Vienna: Stil Laden STIL-LADEN, are proudly displaying their loved status on Tupalo.com! Drop by STIL-LADEN for the latest collections from New Balance, Converse, Adidas, Nike SB, DC, Lakai and many more.

STIL-LADEN loved by Tupalo.com

In the Press

Mike and Clemens from Tupalo.com featured in the Gap100

Tupalo.com in The Gap 100 Austria’s finest music, tech and cultural magazine The Gap Magazine recently celebrated their 100th issue anniversary by compiling a top 100 list of influential people under 40 (or so) who are active in the tech, creative, politics and arts scenes in Austria. A bit of a who’s who in Austria working on cool shit, if you will.

Proudly featured in the list were Mike and Clemens from Tupalo.com, who together founded Tupalo in Vienna, Austria in Spring of 2007.

See the entire Top 100 Austrians list at The Gap Magazine Online.

Announcements

New look and speed improvements at Tupalo.com!

As many of you may have already noticed, we’ve rolled out a refresh to the layout of Tupalo.com, one of many, many  improvements you can expect in the coming weeks as we begin the long process of improving the overall user experience of Tupalo.com. We’ve freshened up quite a few aspects of the service which have been around since the early beta days, expanding white space and letting Tupaleros breath a little clearly. In addition, we’ve made some behind-the-scenes fixes to improve page loading times and overall site performance.

Any bug reports, feedback or problems feel free to leave contact us or submit some of your thoughts in our feedback and ideas forum!