DEMOfall 08: TravelMuse plans to simplify social travel planning
Travel sites are a dime a dozen. You can book trips. You can tell your friends about them. But nobody has done a great job of combining the basics of a travel site with tools that make it easy to plan trips and share information with fellow travelers. TravelMuse says it has the answer.
When you visit the Los Altos, Calif.-based company’s site, you can see a breathtaking photo (licensed for free from one of the… Continue Reading
Travel startup UpTake set to launch opinions super-site
With so many online travel sites crowding the market, you’d think we were nearing a Web 2.0 travel bubble. But according to travel information search engine UpTake, which is launching May 14, there’s still an untapped niche in the market: a travel-opinions supersite.
The market is extremely fragmented with thousands of micro-sites for individual hotels, beaches, airlines and leisure activities. UpTake’s goal is to gather opinions from all of those sites together and become the most… Continue Reading