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Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Overview

Posted on Monday, May 21st

Photo sharing is one of the top segments and in the US the top 10 photo sharing sites draws around 50 million visitors each month. In this series, we will evaluate the category against the web 3.0 framework. Photo sharing is gaining in popularity fueled by its online community features, which allow millions of users

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Web 3.0 & Online Travel: Synthesis

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th

Today anyone with an Internet access and Credit card can just like that, plan for a week’s tour to South Africa or the Himalayas, thanks to the travel sites who offer trip planning at your finger-tips – flight booking, hotels and car rentals along with the reviews of the hotels, places of interest, and information

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Web 3.0 and Lonely Planet

Posted on Friday, May 4th

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and Priceline from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Lonely Planet’s offering. Lonely Planet is a travel content publication company founded by Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 1973 and headquartered in Melbourne,

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Web 3.0 and Priceline

Posted on Wednesday, May 2nd

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz and Expedia from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Priceline’s offering. Priceline founded in 1997 is an online travel agency headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. The site provides a wide array of travel services

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Web 3.0 and Expedia

Posted on Tuesday, May 1st

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity and Orbitz from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Expedia’s offering. Expedia is the largest online travel content company, headquartered in Bellevue, WA. The Company is the third largest travel company in the US,

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Web 3.0 and Orbitz

Posted on Monday, Apr 30th

We have been discussing about the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor and Travelocity from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we take a look at Orbitz’s offering. Orbitz, founded in 2001 is an online travel agency, now owned by Travelport, which in turn is in the process of being acquired by

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Web 3.0 & Travelocity

Posted on Thursday, Apr 26th

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel and TripAdvisor from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Travelocity’s offering. Travelocity, launched in 1996 is an online travel agency. It is owned by Sabre Holdings. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Travelocity is ranked number two among the

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Web 3.0 & TripAdvisor

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 25th

We have been discussing about the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we take a look at TripAdvisor’s offering. TripAdvisor was founded in February 2000 and is among the world’s largest online travel communities with over 20 million unique monthly visitors and approximately 5 million registered

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