We are another step closer to the complete opening of dodo.com. After a lot of work on the website in terms of content, features, and technical problems we start the closed beta launch this week. In this phase we open up the website for a few selected external bloggers and travel experts.

We hope all new users have a lot of fun with dodo.com! We are always open to constructive criticism and recommendations, so please give us a feedback, especially on usability aspects and technical problems. Our “problem box” at the bottom of each window is one possible way of giving us a feedback.

We would also like to thank our team for all the great work in the last few weeks!

If you think you should have received an invitation already, just send us a message and tell us why! http://www.dodo.com/en/imprint.html

We have decided on a slogan! As many of you have mentioned our first idea of a slogan was not specific enough. Thus, we have chosen a slogan that indicates dodo.com’s purpose of being a travel community. Our new slogan is ‘Share your travel experience’. In German this would be ‘Teile deine Reiseerlebnisse’. Even though our slogan is not as short as before, it is clear and does not allow for much latent ambiguity.

Below you find our logo with the new slogan. As always, we are curious about your feedback.

After many months of planning and developing, we launched the first version of dodo.com today. It`s still invitation-only and will probably remain so for another month.

In the next 2 weeks, the dodo.com and transparent-gruppe teams, as well as friends, will test the new site. This will give us a chance to eliminate the most disturbing bugs.

After that, we will open the site for a 4-week invitation-only beta phase. By the end of February, we will probably open the site for everyone and begin our marketing activities.

Below you find a screenshot of what the site will look like when you are logged in.