Ekit’s Weblog

This is a blog about ekit and our products. We are a communications provider to international travellers which is a fancy way of saying that we make products that make it easier and cheaper to stay in touch with friends and family when you’re travelling overseas.

In 1999 we launched our first product, a virtual calling card with integrated email and voicemail that you could buy online and use in dozens of countries. In 2004 we started selling SIMs and mobile phones and last year we launched our own global mobile service that uses callback to reduce roaming costs.

All our services help people share their travels with their friends and family through phone calls, text messages, emails and voicemails. So last year we started thinking about ways to use our services to build an application that would allow people to share their trip with others. We wanted to create a service that could be useful to people who don’t want to do much and also to people who want to actively create content.

The first version of what we call the Travel Journal has just been released as a beta. It’s a travel journal that you can use to keep a record of your trip, adding descriptions and photos of where you have been and what you have done. What we have done, though, is integrate the Travel Journal with our mobile service. This means that we can automatically add entries whenever you use the phone – we’ll know what country you are in so we can bill your calls, but sometimes we can match the cell you are in to a city or better. You can also post entries to your journal from your phone, and if you want to allow it, people can call your mobile from the web.