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PublicEarth - User Generated Wiki Database of Travel Places
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 8th, 2010
PublicEarth.com is a user generated wiki service that delivers interesting, unique and up-to-date travel places information in a personalized way.
Huge Database of Travel Places
Currently PublicEarth offers an ever-expanding database of nearly five million places, across 450 categories including such esoteric topics such as “Nut Harvesting”, “Famous Death Locations”, and “Glass-blowing Studios” etc.
As you search or browse categories, it pulls information in Google maps, and then applies a customized categorization and set of data fields to each entry.
The real value to PublicEarth is that every one can create a point of interest, draw a boundary line around a park, or trace a route to walk or hike.
Manage Personal Places with “Placebooks”
On PublicEarth, you can create and maintain “Placebooks” which organize and manage you personal locations for ease in sharing, searching, and travel planning and activity discovery.
You can also access these Placebooks on a GPS device, a mobile phone or e-mail them to friends. PublicEarth also lets you display your saved places on your own website or blog by creating and embedding a widget.
The site even comes with an API that allows developers to access PublicEarth’s huge database of recommendations.
Mobile Solutions for Travel and Hospitality Industry Launched by Blue Star Infotech
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on February 1st, 2010
Blue Star Infotech, a Travel Distribution Solutions specialist, announced the availability of a suite of Mobile Enablement Solution frameworks for the Travel & Hospitality industry.
These solutions would be demonstrated at the upcoming Travel Technology Show, London, 9 – 10 Feb 2010.
SimplyBus.com - Book Your Bus Tickes Online
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on January 13th, 2010
RedBus was the pioneer that started online tickets service for buses across India. We are today profiling another online service SimplyBus.com, which works on same model.
As per their statistics, they have already partnered with as many as 500 bus operators which itself is great to start with.
The website is easy to use and a novice user can easily book the buses as there is wide array of payment options available to him.
Zuji Launches Zuji Maps Travel Application on Facebook with Epsilon International
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on December 14th, 2009
Online travel agency Zuji has partnered with Epsilon International to develop Zuji Maps, an application that makes the travel experience social by allowing users to plan and book their trips with friends and family within their Facebook account.
Zuji Maps allow users to select up to ten favourite destinations and access the best travel offers available, share and plan their trips with their Facebook friends, and finally purchase their travel from Zuji’s website.
NextStop Lets You Discover Interesting Places Recommended By Others
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on September 26th, 2009
NextStop helps you discover new and interesting places to visit through short, positive recommendations created by local citizens or those who have visited the place. 
Nextstop is useful in many situations: planning a weekend, finding a restaurant for a brunch with friends, or planning a honeymoon in some far-off tropical destination.
NextStop Features
There are various ways to explore the site, including a search box, by city, a guide view, or a map view. The recommendations can be collected together into guides which can be explicitly liked by members.
The guides can be sorted by most recent, most liked, or most viewed. You can save any place or guide in a wishlist for later viewing.
How To Add Recommendation ?
After you have created your account, just type in the name of any bar, restaurant, tourist attraction and click “add a recommendation.” Afterward it will suggest places it recognizes along with their addresses, and if one of them is what you are trying to recommend, you click on it and nextstop will place it on a Google map and find pictures.
Chaklo - Search Hotels from World’s Most Popular Travel Websites
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 21st, 2009
There are already so many hotels search site on web yet new ones emerge every now and then. Another kid on the block is Chaklo.com which offers nothing unique.
The site claims to collate information from almost all the big names in hotel search. Overall the site looks simple to use and navigate.
Search and Plan your Own Adventure Trips on AdventureDrop
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 20th, 2009
AdventureDrop is a wiki-based travel portal that helps you find adventure travel by location and activity.
AdventureDrop - Wiki Based Adventure Travel Portal
It’s a community based knowledge center, specially created to encourage all kinds of outdoor adventures, as well as traveling around many new and hard to get places.
Plan Your Own Adventures
The most important aspect is that it lets you plan your own adventures. It helps you find places you wish to visit, get information about them and find tour providers that offer this kind of advenutre.
You can search via map or plug in your home city and set the radius to see all of the hiking, biking, rafting, and outdoor adventures in your area. As it is based on a wiki technology, you can add add new adventures and edit others adventures to make sure the information is complete and comprehensive.
You can even rate the adventures and mark off specific points at each location to check.out. It also lets you save all the adventures and create a customized itinerary on a PDF for free if you are looking to go it alone. This makes it easy to take all the information you need with you on the road.
AdventureDrop currently only features U.S. travel adventures.
iDiva - A Portal Dedicated to Modern Indian Women
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on January 23rd, 2009
The stature of women in India has changed dramaticaly in recent times. They have been excelling each and every field including media, business and sports. Although there is lot of offline media dedicated to women entertainment, there is still a dearth of women focussed sites in India.
iDiva.com, launched by Times Internet Network, is a portal dedicated to modern Indian women. This portal is a complete information and sharing platform for Indian home and style makers.
The site looks impressive with shades of color that suits Indian women. The layout is also designed keeping in mind the simplicity of use.
Yoplr - Personalized Travel Planning Web App
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on January 10th, 2009
Yoplr is another of the travel sites which claims to be innovative but fails to do so. One of the major problem is people have no time to get register to plan a travel when there are already plenty of services which do the same without getting registered.
We tried our hands to get registered but could not make through. Although the site looks decent but lacks the attraction to lure the casual visitors.
BitWine - Trusted Advice from Real People
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on November 28th, 2008
BitWine Advisor Network is the premier online destination for anyone who is seeking expert advice. They have recruited professionals from fields as diverse as Nutrition, Travel, Technology, and have made these experts available for face-to-face consultation via computer, right in the comfort of your own home.
BitWine has partnered with the industry-leading Internet video and voice communications company, Skype, and the industry-leading Internet payments company, PayPal, to create a network that is both safe and easy to use.
Trusted Advice from Real People
With BitWine, users deem themselves experts in specific categories and establish their per-minute consulting fee. Then when another curious user needs an answer about a given topic, they can browse the experts in that category, select someone whose price and expertise they prefer, and Skype them live. As soon as the transaction is over, the expert is paid via PayPal.
Full audio and video capabilities provide online interaction, bringing the advisors office right into the client living room. Their searchable directory allows users to find the nutritionist with exactly the specialty they are looking for. You can also register as an advisor and make some money by offering your services.
Consultants within the BitWine network specializing in categories from business to nutrition now have the ability to transfer their knowledge to individuals in need through a simple and affordable JAJAH phone call too.
So whether you are looking for nutrition advice or if you are a professional nutritionist wanting to move your office online, BitWine’s Nutrition Advisors’ Network is a useful resource.
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