The Best Travel Agent?

What sights should I see in Barcelona, Spain? Which trails would be suitable for my type of hiker in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado? TripSay answers to these questions by providing recommendations and tips from friends. The idea is simple: instead of browsing through a number of websites and guidebooks, just get the travel …

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Designing a Web 2.0 service

The “million dollar question”: What makes a good social media web site? Providing a useful service and putting in the standard social media concepts such as social graph, wisdom of crowds and UGC are the pre-requisites but hardly enough if the site doesn’t provoke people’s interest. The diminishing attention span of the Internet public calls …

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What makes social media?

Social media is one of the Web 2.0 core concepts. As such, understanding the concept thoroughly is one of the keys in developing a successful Web 2.0 web site. Basically social media denotes a site that gives its users tools for interacting with each other. Thus basically any blog or wiki or photosharing system is …

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