The only Silicon Valley CEO who answers my e-mails — Joost Schreve of EveryTrail.com — lobbed a minor bombshell in my in-box this morning with news that he’d sold EveryTrail to TripAdvisor, a subsidiary of the travel giant Expedia.com. Getting…
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Everytrail Guides now on iPhone
by tom • July 17, 2010 • 8 Comments
This is the Big Moment for those of us in the Everytrail Guides Authors Guild (created right here as of this moment, I suppose): Guides are now available on the iPhone (via Everytrail Free and Everytrail Pro). I wish I…
Major upgrade for Everytrail Guides
by tom • May 29, 2010 • 3 Comments
I’m still contributing to the Guides project at Everytrail.com, which has signed up a half-dozen “partners” besides me to develop GPS-enhanced travel content. For now they’re nice resources for Web travelers, but in the future they’ll be available for download…
More on the Guides project at EveryTrail.com
by tom • October 10, 2009 • 2 Comments
Joost Schreve, CEO of EveryTrail.com, hired me to write more than two-dozen “Guides,” for his site, which allows the GPS-enabled to record their adventures with words, pictures and GPS waypoints. Now Joost and his team are building a second tier…
That old gray GPS ain’t what it used to be
by tom • September 23, 2009 • 4 Comments
Posting GPS mash-ups of my hikes at EveryTrail has been an education in the law of unintended consequences. Consumer GPS units came to market to do for all Americans what they once did only for the military: help navigate unfamiliar…
GPS for Mac hikers
by tom • November 21, 2008 • 14 Comments
I’ve finally gotten a GPS unit, and getting it to play nice with my iMac has been an education. The unit is a Garmin eTrex Vista Cx, which is being phased out in favor of the Vista HCX, which is…