21hippos blog

And we’re live!

Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is over!  21hippos.com is live!  Head on over to http://www.21hippos.com/ , log in with your Facebook details (it takes just seconds - there are no sign-up forms and we won’t publish anything to Facebook without your permission), and get started.

Still here?  OK, no problem, why don’t you have a look at some of the awesome stuff you can do on 21hippos in the meantime:

• Write short reviews (limited to 210 characters) on your favorite restaurant, bar, movie, book, hotel, tourist attraction, or anything else (referred to as ‘hippos’)!  Writing reviews:
  
  • Lets you share your thoughts about various places and things with your friends to help them better find stuff in the future.
  • Helps you keep track of your experiences
  • Gets you more hippo points (more on that later).
    

• See what your friends are talking about.  You can do this by scrolling through your newsfeed to see your friends’ recent reviews, or browsing through your and your friends’ tags to find some new cool places and things to check out.
  
  Newsfeed
  
  
  Browsing Tags

• You can also go ahead and add a bunch of tags to different places and things (hippos) to help you and your friends better categorize these hippos.  You can create or add a tag for anything you like, such as ‘date spot’, or ‘gourmet pizza’.  You can also like tags that your friends have added, or add a private tag which none of your friends will see.  This is useful to help you categorize your own private lists (for example, you can add a private tag called ‘Tonight’s options’ to help you plan a big night out!).
  

• Send a Shout Out to all your friends on 21hippos, which is a way of asking their advice on where to go or what to do.  You’re probably doing this on Facebook and/or Twitter as well, but now your friends having a real forum to respond to you with some suggestions.
  

• Post your reviews to Facebook and Twitter to share your thoughts with the rest of the world (and the rest of your social circle).  You can also choose to have reviews added automatically from your Twitter stream, which is a great way to categorize everything you’re tweating about anyway.
  

• Gather up as many hippo points as you can!  We’re developing some really great enhancements with hippo points, so not only will you want to get more points than your friends but you’ll be able to do some neat things with these points soon as well.
  

Yew, we could go on and on about the fun and useful features of 21hippos, but why don’t you just log in and see it all for yourself.

Once again, please please please let us know if you have any other ideas for the site.  We’re always open to making it better for you.

Happy Hippoing!