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Facebook Acquires Social Travel Startup Nextstop
- adrianwaj 16y agoThe article mentions 100,000 recommendations made on Nextstop. Great. Chance has it, but I came across http://www.geckogo.com/ http://www.geckogo.com/ via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/07/get-up-go-with-geckogo.html http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/07/get-up-go-with-g... today and it has about 975,000 discoveries and 200,000 reviews. Seems like the Plenty of Fish for travellers, and I'll be examining it for why it has become that way.
- paulgb 16y agoInterestingly, GeckoGo was part of Facebook's REV program. IIRC this means Facebook owns some equity in GeckoGo. http://fbfund.com/teams/ http://fbfund.com/teams/
- c1sc0 16y agoI work in the travel industry & the ITA deal and now this is certainly of concern for us. It seems as if the big search (Google) & networking (Facebook) players have decided to move into the content business. I can't blame them because the whole travel sector is ripe for some major changes. Specifically for Facebook it makes total sense to move into the content/recommendation field: why should I trust a random review site when I can get recommendations directly from my friends? The next logical step would be for Google of Facebook to introduce an ecommerce component, then they will really stir up the commission-based travel sector. Killing off the traditional real-life travel agency was only the beginning ...