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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.
Center’d - A Local Search Engine and an Event Planner
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on May 1st, 2009
Center’d is a local search engine cum an event-planning app that assists people plan activities and events.
Plan any Activity and Find New Places to Go On Center'd
How it Works ?
Center’d gathers enhanced data about places which gives it a ability to make personalized plan recommendations. Their unique approach creates a more relevant experience for consumers as well as more targeted and intent-based advertising opportunities for businesses.
You can search places for restaurants, hotels, schools, museums, stores, etc. which appears on a Google map. There is a calendar view also.
Once you are connected with your friends on their site, their events pop up in your searches. Even you can create your own events and get your friends to help decide the details.
Center’d has compiled a database of around 1 million entries for various activities, each of which is categorized into a number of intent-based classifications including kid-friendly, romantic, cheap, and more. This allows people to quickly discover places and activities that best suit their needs while short-cutting the overload of unstructured local data on the Internet.
The site generates city guides for users with a variety of different criteria using the huge database. It has been launched with support for twelve cities initially, with plans to ramp up to more in the near future.
Company and Enhancements Planned
Center’d is led by former Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo! executives. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and is funded by Norwest Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures and private angel investors.
In Near future, Center’d plans to deploy its suggestion engine to the iPhone, with a mobile application that will allow users to generate a day-long itinerary based on the amount of money they’re able to spend and the type of activities they’d like to pursue.
Center’d
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.
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