Wednesday, June 27, 2007

here or there?

I was psyched to receive an email from Hugo Burge, of Cheapflights fame, recently regarding his new endeavor here or there? This social travel site enters a competitive arena, but the newly minted beta site scores well on user experience.

Here is what Hugo had to say about it:
"The site is for people who love travel and want to share travel experience. The initial launch offers a simple way to publish travel experiences (text, background, photos, embedded video, audio) and has tools to measure the popularity of these with the community. We have used YouTube like tools (rating, views, comments, tags) so that we can help surface the most interesting travel experiences to the front of the site."

"It is early days but I passionately believe in trying to solve the conundrum of travel inspiration, which i don't think is resolved or done well anywhere. In many ways it is the ultimate challenge and the web should do it well. Right now we ask friends, watch TV programs, browse the web etc but I want to evolve a personalised travel inspiration search."

Check it out and good luck Hugo.

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