Facebook has rebooted the Nearby function on its app for iPhone and Android, making it a true impromptu discovery tool for local businesses and attractions.
Facebook revamps Nearby: What businesses need to know about the local recommendation tool
December 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Clip the Trip reaches out to the local crowd for travel guides
November 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
Clip the Trip is a crowd-sourced travel guide, currently covering 200 cities, that wants to help users find those out of the ordinary experiences often only known about by locals
Mobile, maps, travel and the Walk-In Economy
October 8, 2012 By 11 Comments
The War of the Maps (Worlds? Ha!) between Apple and Google is that the struggle is not about immediate revenue, it is about ownership of geo-behavioral data and overall strategic positioning
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Airbnb buys obscure Fondu app, may create printed city guidebooks
October 3, 2012 By 2 Comments
Financial terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed for the purchase of the restaurant recommendation app. AIrbnb wants to distribute printed guides of what’s worth seeing in major cities.
My Destination goes on the offensive, calls Google a commodity in travel content search
September 7, 2012 By 8 Comments
Google’s recent acquisition of Frommers probably left quite a few in the travel guide sector quaking in their boots
Travel Onion, NileGuide make express push for local blog content
April 15, 2010 By 12 Comments
Do you want to read about some lost ballerina shoes in London? A sexual harassment suit in New York City? And, oh yes, there’s a free Earth Day block party in Washington, D.C.
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