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Gogobot introduces gaming on top of Facebook, Foursquare check-ins
Just for fun and to gain more participation, Gogobot is introducing gaming — badges, in particular — to its social travel website. Travis Katz, CEO and cofounder, says Gogobot is the first company to...
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TLabs Reprise – MyTripGuru 12 months on
MyTripGuru is a Germany-based user generated content guidebook platform, which first featured on Tnooz in April 2010 [TLabs Showcase - MyTripGuru]. So what happened in the intervening 12 months? Are...
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Five views from the travel startup coalface
NB: This is a guest article by Ritesh Gupta , senior editor at EyeforTravel. Personalisation, simplicity, convenience, transparency, swiftness… new startups promise all this and more as they jointly...
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Gogobot demos Facebook travel app to Zuckerberg, likes power of new Open Graph
A week before Facebook unveiled Timeline and new Open Graph features at its f8 developers conference today, Gogobot demoed its new Facebook integration, taking advantage of those enhancements, to...
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Picture this — Gogobot debuts iPhone app
Gogobot took its social roadshow to mobile, launching an iPhone app which enables users to take a photo, turn it into a geo-tagged digital postcard and share it on their Facebook Timeline. Users can...
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Social travel: Gogobot gets $15M, new Delta Air Lines app on Facebook
A lot of people, including investors in Gogobot and Delta Air Lines management, are betting on social travel — or at least playing around with it. Gogobot, a social travel-planning site, announced...
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Gogobot move over — Uptake goes social with unstructured Facebook data
Uptake joined the social, trip-planning crowd, but it says its new feature is superior because it mines unstructured data from Facebook. You can log-in on the Uptake homepage using your Facebook...
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Facebook: Wisdom of Friends replacing Wisdom of Crowds in travel
Facebook has turned into the new Google (in many, many respects) – and when it speaks, pretty much the entire business world has a tendency to listen. So the PhoCusWright conference finally gets its...
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Facebook enables users to add travel apps to their Timelines
Facebook says it gavel its users the ability to add Facebook apps from Where I’ve Been, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Gogobot and Wipolo to their Facebook Timelines. The idea is to post your travel dreams and...
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Social travel gets graphic as Trippy, Wanderfly, Gogobot, Gtrot display...
Get ready for lots of boards, photos and pinning as social travel companies discover the social power of photos and get travel inspiration from Pinterest. You can envision that “visual” is where social...
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Milestones for Gogobot and the other Travelzoo
Break out your scorecards: Social travel site Gogobot now boasts more than 1 million registered users and Travelzoo Australia has grown the subscriber base of its deal newsletters to 700,000. Whether...
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What Else? Gogobot 2.0, Expedia-Kaleva, American Airlines DC, Travelocity...
What else is going on in the world of travel tech? A round-up of other stories from across the industry… Big upgrade for the social travel planning service Gogobot with a new iPhone application it is...
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The Scan: Skyscanner clocks 10 million app downloads, Priceline brings...
More than a third of visits to Skyscanner come through apps, and more items in our rundown of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 20 September. Skyscanner’s flight app clocks 10...
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TripAdvisor buys trip planning service Wanderfly
User review giant TripAdvisor has made its first acquisition in quite some time, buying New York-based trip planning and content site Wanderfly. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wanderfly first...
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The Scan: Fun facts from Europe’s NOAH Conference and more travel tech news
Facebook, Onetwotrip, Vayant, Gogobot, Priceline, Future Travel Experience and Boingo all get mentioned in our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 6 November. CONFERENCES AND EXPOS...
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Gogobot looks to bolster product search and booking tools for hotels, but...
Ramping up of the revenue-generating options for Gogobot with news of new hotel search and booking tools and a deal with OpenTable for restaurants. Probably the most important update to the service is...
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The Scan: American Airlines serves 20,000 passes a day through Passbook, and...
American Airlines, Hotel.jp, Viator, TripLingo, Gogobot, Grasp Technologies, Lowcosttravel, C2G, 101 Holidays USA, and SignEasy, all appear in our roundup of trade news in travel technology for 21...
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Shifting to mobile: Strong smartphone usage key to Gogobot latest release
Gogobot has released an Android version of their heretofore iOS-only app, clearly doubling down on their newly minted mobile-first strategy after seeing rapid adoption among its user base. And with...
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Insider Guides bring Gogobot content to Homeaway
Crowd-sourced content continues to appeal to travel brands, as Gogobot and Homeaway partner on a product called Insider Guides that brings local insider knowledge to travelers. Insider Guides, in a...
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Tripshare wants to remove travel planning pain via real and actionable...
Like so many trip planning sites, Tripshare grew out of a desire to apply some modern technology to offline itinerary planning and sharing. The company was founded in 2011 but only emerged from beta...
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