Our viewpoints are now also accessible through the places I have been, a platform where you can keep track of which, somewhat less mainstream, prominent locations around the world you have visited. That platform started off to allow you to keep track of which World Heritage Sites you have visited, but has branched out since.
We’ve been hosting podcast feeds of the Placecloud material for a while. Now, we’re making individual feeds available in Dutch, Portuguese, and English.
Announcing 100 short location-based podcasts on the Dutch colonial history in Brazil.
You can now embed viewpoints on your own website. This feature allows you to copy a code snippet and integrate it almost anywhere.
The Council of Europe’s Historic Cafés Route, which features close to 100 European cafés is now on Placecloud. These cafés, from Denmark to Malta, are now visitable on Placecloud, with viewpoints created with the help of AI.
We complete our rebuild of Placecloud with one more major set of updates.
We’re announcing a bunch of new updates and changes. And we’re now more active on Twitter, as well as on Mastodon.
With walk · listen · create taking responsibility of Placecloud, a long list of updates to Placecloud.
A big moment has arrived for Placecloud. As founder, I’m handing over responsibility for Placecloud to the place-based arts organisation walk · listen · create.
We’re very excited to be launching a new subscription model in June 2021. We’ve signed up 50 wonderful academics, published authors and independent researchers, with more signing up every week. They’ll start by publishing around 450 viewpoints in London in June, amounting to 50+ hours of highest quality research.
We’re delighted to offer Heritage Alliance members 50% off our Placecloud commission on street view tours ticket sales until the end of 2021, for those who sign up by midnight on Christmas Eve 2020. This is our way of offering support to the heritage sector after a torrid year.
Placecloud shows you sites of significance through short podcasts ("viewpoints"). We particularly value contributions from academics, writers, artists, certified city guides, and other experts.
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