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How Was Your Weekend?

It sounds like you Trusted Placers have been painting the town red, eating, drinking and dancing your way through the weekend and coming back to tell us all about your exploits. Not content with a simple night down the boozer you’ve been having interesting experiences all over town and yes, we’re getting ever so […]

March 31st, 2008  ·  Reviews, TrustedPlaces  ·  No Comments »

TrustedPlaces Blocked In Dubai?

This began with what looked like simply a case of the United Arab Emirates getting a little asine over our ‘ass’.
One of our users recently attempted to read the review on TrustedPlaces of a Korean restaurant called Assa, but found the page blocked by his ISP, Etisalat. Figuring this was simply the word ‘ass’ being […]

February 25th, 2008  ·  Food for thought, TrustedPlaces  ·  1 Comment »

London Transport Mini Meet

TrustedPlaces went along to the London Transport Museum when it reopened, but after a little conversation with Annie Mole we decided to go back and take some of our favourite Flickr photographers.
With some help from the museum we organised a two hour ramble around the exhibits.
We shot a little video to give you a taste […]

February 20th, 2008  ·  Events, London, TrustedPlaces  ·  2 Comments »

Another Thumbs Up

• What’s the weirdest business experience you’ve had so far?
“Arriving at a late-afternoon business meeting only to realise after ten minutes that the other person was completely inebriated. It wasn’t a long conversation.”
I’d just like to point out that Walid and Sokratis weren’t talking about me there. I try and keep my inebriation confined […]

January 30th, 2008  ·  Entrepreneurship, Thumbs up, TrustedPlaces  ·  1 Comment »

TrustedPlaces + toptable.co.uk = Instant Booking!


We’re very happy to announce our new partnership with Europe’s largest online restaurant booking service: toptable.co.uk.
This means that TrustedPlaces users can now find the perfect place and make restaurant bookings online on the same page. All you have to do is click the ‘Book a table‘ link at the side of the review of restaurants […]

January 8th, 2008  ·  Product Updates, TrustedPlaces  ·  2 Comments »

Happy 2008!

The first working day of a new year comes around far too early, but we have to admit that firing up the Trusted Places blogs for another year of news, competitions, videos and fun is hardly a chore.
Plus 2008 (or zoob as the cool kids are calling it) is a leap year. That means we […]

January 2nd, 2008  ·  TrustedPlaces  ·  No Comments »

Very Merry Christmas

We just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, a wonderful 2008 and to also thank you all for a fantastic 2007. It’s been a great ride since opening up our beta in February. We’ve had some great parties to celebrate, shot some fun videos after your suggestions and of course loved reading all […]

December 24th, 2007  ·  TrustedPlaces  ·  1 Comment »

#1 in the Times’ 50 Best Travel Sites

This is always nice. We love blowing our own trumpet, but we don’t mind at all when someone like The Times wants to take over for a while. They just published a list that shows:
recognition of sites that have shown innovation during 2007 and which have added to or improved their offerings to become […]

November 22nd, 2007  ·  Press, TrustedPlaces, Uncategorized  ·  5 Comments »

Would you Trust an Amateur?

Tiffs between established print critics and relatively new online critics are nothing new. Film sites, for example, are often frowned upon by critics employed by newspapers as being easily bought and unprofessional (as well as having complete freedom and the ability to publish whenever they like). And the clash is also ongoing in the world […]

November 1st, 2007  ·  Reviews, TrustedPlaces  ·  1 Comment »

Celebrities? No thanks, I’ll ask my friends or TrustedPlaces

A few weeks ago we ran a national poll with members of the TrustedPlaces community to find out how your choices are influenced on where to go and what to do. According to the results the influence celebrities have on our social lives is wearing very thin.
• 34% of you would be less likely to […]

October 17th, 2007  ·  Press, TrustedPlaces  ·  2 Comments »

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  • The Times made TrustedPlaces their Website of the Week
  • We're one of the Top 10 British Dotcoms to Watch according to The Guardian
  • We're also one of the Top 25 UK Web Startups according to The Register
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