Roam7 Digs Through Friends’ Facebook Photo Albums To Help You Plan Your Travels. Have you ever planned a vacation and remembered that you once saw a photo of a great dish on Facebook? If only you could remember who posted it and when. A new service, Roam7, has launched that promises to reach deep into your social networks to pull that information for you. The service combs your friends’ Facebook albums and assembles relevant photos into a page to help you figure out what’s worth doing on your holidays. Beyond holidays, of course, is the delicious potential to stalk people. Roam7 will display friends’ photos on a map and use meta-data, such as location tags, to label where restaurants’ food photos were taken and what points of interest they visited. Cheehan Tee and Toby Rahilly founded Roam7 in 2011 and launched it in private beta in April 2012, Cheehan tells us. Cheehan was the vice president of engineering at Encentuate before it was acquired by IBM. The Roam7 team is being mentored by Peng T.
Social travel recommendations. [Start-up de la semaine] Zenwego, l’anti-casse-tête du voyage entre amis. Sympas les vacances entre amis à la montagne ou à l’Ile de Ré!
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Mais, quand il faut mettre le nez dans l’organisation, ça se corse… Un nouveau service en ligne de gestion de vacances à plusieurs vient justement de se lancer. Via un espace privé collaboratif, Zenwego facilite les préparatifs, les dépenses, et la recherche de services liés : hébergement, location de voiture… Organisez simplement vos vacances entre amis.
Jetpac takes you on a guided world tour, as seen by your Facebook friends (exclusive) What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Jetpac. Backed By Former Google Exec & More, Twigmore Brings Travel Networking To Facebook. There are a lot of sites popping up these days trying to make travel recommendations better and more precise.
Some, like Triposo, are making travel apps based on algorithms, while Trippy wants to give you social, “friendsourced” recommendations via Facebook, or rapidly growing sites like Gogobot, which provides a gamified, Yelp-like platform where you can leave reviews of destinations you visit and get recommendations from your friends. These are all great options, but sites like Trippy, CouchSurfing, and more are off-Facebook platforms that connect to the social network through Facebook Login.
A new travel site launching today, called Twigmore is cutting out the middle man and launching a travel network directly on Facebook. Twigmore Co-founder and CEO Stephen Smyth tells us that many feel that travel network is a natural extension of the Facebook platform but they don’t want to sign up through an off-site application to get their recommendations. Twigmore shows how to use friends on Facebook to find locals in a destination.
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Twigmore, a Facebook-based platform which connects travellers and locals through friends.
Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? Twigmore is a travel networking tool on Facebook that connects travelers and locals through friends. The company was founded by Stephen Smyth and Peter Baer. Stephen has a product and engineering background and was general manager of Reuters.com.Peter has had senior sales and marketing roles at Warner Brothers, CBS and a mobile startup. We are both travel enthusiasts who wanted to solve one of our own problems: how to find trusted locals wherever you go. What financial support did you have to launch the business? We bootstrapped the business for the first seven months and then received $125,000 in funding from angel investors. What problem are you trying to solve? It’s hard for travellers to find trusted locals who can answer questions, show them around or just help when things come up. [Voyages] AirWiGo donne de l’inspiration aux globe-trotters.
AirWiGo, nouveau site comparateur de voyages, propose une solution ludique et innovante, avec Inspire Me.
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L’idée, est de souffler aux utilisateurs, diverses propositions de destinations souvent insoupçonnées et à des prix attractifs. FriendFareFinder™ Falk.de: Routenplaner, Karten und Stadtpläne. Trippy raises $1.75 million in first round of outside investment. Disrupt Alum Trippy Raises $1.75 Million Thanks to Ribs and Fried Chicken. Let this post be a lesson to would-be entrepreneurs: Don’t turn down any party invitations. This advice is obvious if we’re talking about fancy dinners as the homes of moguls. But apparently the Valley is so rich with venture capital, it even applies to backyard BBQs at the homes of bloggers. My husband and I have an annual August BBQ, and two years ago we found a term sheet sketched on a paper tablecloth. We never found out who that belonged to. But I just found out another deal happened at this past year’s party when LA entrepreneur JR Johnson met Tony Conrad of True Ventures.
Johnson’s company, Trippy, will announce the funding today. Trippy is a social travel site that gives people a painless way to help plan friends’ trips. Plnnr - plan the perfect trip, automatically!