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Gogobot move over -- Uptake goes social with unstructured Facebook data | Tnooz
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 credentials to access Uptake’s new Travel Q&A feature in beta and get recommendations from your Facebook friends about destinations on your bucket list. But Uptake believes its solution is superior to those of other social travel sites, such as Gogobot , because Uptake’s search technology goes beyond analyzing structured data (i.e. check-ins and places people have lived) and retrieves unstructured data (status updates, photo tags and comments) from Facebook. “It is interesting and a good place to start,” says Yen Lee, Uptake co-founder and President, of Gogobot’s allegedly more limited approach, “but how many places have you lived and how many places have you checked-in?”
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[Social Travel] Wipolo, la plateforme française choisie par Facebook | FrenchWeb.fr
Le géant Facebook a choisi trois partenaires pour incarner la dimension social travel de son réseau. Wipolo, plateforme qui connecte les e-voyageurs, en fait partie. Entretien avec l'un des fondateurs.
Since launching early last year, young social travel site Gogobot has been off to a pretty good start, or at least it has, shall we say, been hitting all the stops. As Jason pointed out recently , it was named one of Time’s top sites for 2011, won a Crunchie for best design in 2010, and brought its total funding to just under $20 million with a series B raise from Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures and CrunchFund. It launched a good looking iOS app in October , and has seen its user base grow 10x in the last six months. But, so what, right?
Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital Magazine | TechCrunch
A lot of people, including investors in Gogobot a nd Delta Air Lines management, are betting on social travel — or at least playing around with it. Gogobot, a social travel-planning site, announced today that it completed a new funding round of $15 million, bringing its stockpile to $19 million to date. In addition to Battery Ventures, other prior investors were Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe, Square general manager Keith Rabois, and angel investor Oren Ze’ev. Gogobot says it will use the new dinero “to expand its global footprint through marketing, partnerships and outreach.” “We’ve lots of momentum behind the company and we’ll be using the funding to continue to grow and bring the power of social travel to the masses,” says Travis Katz, Gogobot co-founder and CEO.
