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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

GlobeBlogr - Travel Diary Blogging Platform


The idea of GlobeBlogr was born during a big roundtrip in Norway. The idea was simply to let the ones that you love some information about where you are every day.
With that wonderful platform of travel-diary you can actually let people to enjoy special moments with you while you're still traveling, by sharing with them pictures, videos and stories.
Of course you can write about your travels after you'll come back from them and let other people to learn from the experience that you had.

10 great features that gone come with GlobeBlogr:


  • Blog about your favorite place or location on the globe - Write about your favorite bar, restaurant, beach, hotel etc..
    To add new place you mast firs define a parent place than you can add your new place to the database. (which already have half a million city names and places)
  • Media tools - Upload Images to your Story
    You can upload your images to GB or simply import them from flickr. You can also include your youtube movies into a GB posting.
  • location-linking - Users can follow your trip every day by following your postings.
    (you will be able to subscribe by eMail or feed to a trip of user or location)
  • Define a GPS position for your place - other users can see the location on a map. On Trips you can see the full trip on the map and every entry you made is marked with a little flag on the map. Users can click on the flag to read your post about this place.
  • Tagging - find places and locations that are tagged with the same tag.
  • Search people tools - Find people that are at the same place at the moment or were at this place in the past.
  • Location rating - You can add a rating of the place and location from 1 to 5 stars.
  • Browse and Search the Globe - you can search for all places that users add to GB.
  • Adding comments to existing entries - You can add a comment to a blog entry as long the user allow it or you can link in your own blog entry about this place or location.
  • Post about globeBlogr on your own private blog - Users can simply add there posts to there own blog.

I loved the idea of GlobeBlogr and I believe that lots of people will think like me. It's a wonderful tool for all you travelers out there that want to share with the rest of the world your magical moments and introduce to the users new and desirable places. Or just for you that want to get to know better the place you're about to travel to.

GlobeBlogr Team comes from Dusseldorf, Germany and they are fully self funded.

The first beta supposed to come on July - Sign up here

Thank you Andreas Schneider for sharing all that imformation with me.

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posted by Orli Yakuel at 6:24 AM

7 Comments:

Blogger Saul Weiner said...

How does this compare to wayfaring which has more of a maps angle?

8:50 AM  
Anonymous Andreas said...

Wayfaring is more map related, GlobeBlogr will use the map only for orientation. The Focus will be more on Travel diaries, Images and Movies.

9:16 AM  
Anonymous Rogel said...

How is it different from travbuddy?
I beleive that these services missing the point. Instead of having the user "come" to them to submit content they should collect it from the users blogs and mashed it with advance services.

2:19 PM  
Anonymous Andreas (GlobeBlogr) said...

I totaly agree Rogel!
This is on our to-do - but will not be included in the beta.

Andreas
globeblogr.com

2:32 PM  
Anonymous Rogel said...

I'll be very happy to see that Andreas.

4:50 PM  
Anonymous Andreas said...

It is planned that users can tag their blog posts with a special tag so that GlobeBlogr can find it. This also can include gps data and trip information. So it will be possible to link different blog entries to a complete traveltrip. I don't want to say it is a technorati for places and travel but it is a sort of :)

Andreas
globeblogr.com

5:41 PM  

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