The Witur blog has moved!

Hi everyone, we would like to let you know that we have moved to: http://blog.witur.com.

Visit our new blog to learn about the latest Witur features

New Website and Android Application

Today is an exciting day for us as we are rolling out several changes to our Web and we are also making available Witur for Android. Let’s start with the Web changes.

First of all you will notice a redesigned home page that summarizes all Witur features and allows you to access each one of them easily from the tabs above. You can now create itineraries as an anonymous user so you can test the system before registering. The core search functionality has been moved to its own search section and has been enhanced with a number of parameters that will allow you customize your search criteria. Furthermore, we have modified the visualization of the results on the map as it was too cluttered. Now, when you search, you get a list of itineraries and we only display the initial marker for each itinerary. When you move the mouse over the search results, we highlight the different entries, zoom in, and draw the whole itinerary on the map. Finally, we have added a new section called My Witur that displays your itineraries, your connection status to Facebook and Twitter, a dialog to embed your itineraries in other web pages, and finally, statistics about the number of times people have read each of your itineraries. We still have many more changes we will keep rolling out during the next months.

On the mobile devices arena we are very excited about our latest addition: Witur for Android. This new application leverages our previous experience on Witur for the iPhone and extends the iPhone app with very important features such as the ability to work on multiple itineraries at the same time, and more importantly, the ability to edit itineraries from your Android device before you publish them. Many thanks to all our iPhone users for their feedback! We are already working on a new version of our iPhone application that will add this missing functionality.

Witur on “Actualidad iPhone”

“Actualidad iPhone”, the Spanish Blog news for the iPhone, has published a brand new article about Witur and the way you can use it from your iPhone.

Check it out here.

Suggestions

Suppose you have made a trip to Italy. You go to Witur and create an itinerary named “Italy”. Inside the “Italy” itinerary, you start to place the stages on the map: Rome, Florence, Venice… and so on. Did you know that is very easy to add suggestions to any stage? You just have to click on the “add suggestions” button in the stage form:

For each suggestion, you can fill the name, a brief description and a link.

You can add as many suggestions as you want in every stage, so you can share your favourite spots with your friends, family or the whole world!

Witur powers Oh Barcelona

Witur Technologies is now powering the suggested itineraries at Oh Barcelona, the Barcelona appartment and hotel specialized website.

Witur Technologies helps companies to showcase their itineraries by providing a widget that can be easily embedded in any webpage. This is perfect for companies looking forward to dinamically promoting travel and route catalogues, walking tours or any other services based on map placement.

Check it out here (click on “suggested itineraries” tab).

And remember that as a registerd witur user, if you have a website or blog, you can take your itineraries with you!

Comments and Ratings

We have a lot of itineraries, routes and trips available in witur.com.

Did you know that you can post a comment to any itinerary? Did you know that you can rate them as well?

To do so, you just have to go to the option “Write a comment” available in the itinerary description.

Share your opinion about your favourite itineraries today!

Witur for the iPhone: now with Google Maps

We just submitted a new version of our iPhone application to the App Store so it is ready for the new OS 3.0. The biggest change you will notice is that we replaced our previous map with Google Maps, so you can now enjoy the familiar look and feel.

Also, you will be able to click on the markers to to read the name of the stages and you will also be able to switch to Satellite and Hybrid view. We hope you enjoy it!

Witur embedded. Take your itineraries with you.

Did you know that you can take your trips to your own website or blog?

You just have to go to “My itineraries” and click on “embed”:

You can copy&paste the code that appears in the text-box into your website or blog and share your itineraries straight from your place!

Are you a twitter user?

Are you a Twitter user? Do you have lots of followers that would like to know about your latest itineraries? If the answer is yes, then we have good news for you! We just added a new feature that automatically updates your Twitter status every time you add new stages to your itineraries from either the Web of the iPhone. Updates include the name of the stage as well as a link to it, so your followers will be able to jump to your Witur itinerary right away to see all the details.

This is how it works:

1. Sign in to your Witur account
2. In the upper right menu you will see a new link that says “Connect to Twitter” go ahead and click on it
3. You will be redirected to a Twitter page where you have to enter your Twitter username and Password
4. You are ready to go!

After you connect to Twitter, the upper right menu will change the link to “Disconnect from Twitter”. Click on it if you want Witur to stop updating your Twitter status.

This new notification feature is very useful to keep friends posted about your progress while traveling, hiking, or just walking around the city. We find it particularly useful when combined with the iPhone, as it allows you to broadcast your itinerary in real-time very easily. We call this broadcasting feature “Witurcast” and you will soon hear more about it.

By the way, we will soon add another feature to enable non-Twitter users send updates to Witur followers. Keep posted!

The new Witur for the iPhone is here!

The new Witur for the iPhone makes it really simple to create and share trips and routes. You just have to follow these steps:

1) Register in witur.com.
2) Go to the Apple AppStore (iTunes required) and download Witur to your iPhone.
3) Use Witur for the iPhone to create your trips and routes.
4) Publish your trips and routes.
5) Share it with your friends, family or the whole World!

We hope you enjoy it!