Internet Brands Acquires Wikitravel and World66 Online Travel Guides
This just hit my Gmailbox: Internet Brands Acquires Wikitravel and World66 Online Travel Guides through that nice Google Alert service.
To quote:
Internet Brands, Inc, a leading operator of media and e-commerce sites for “large ticket” consumer purchases, today announced the acquisition of Wikitravel (www.wikitravel.org) and World66 (www.world66.com), two leading community travel guides of up-to-date, traveler-focused content. The sites are growing exponentially, collectively attracting more than 2 million visits per month, more than triple a year ago.
Both websites utilize wiki-based collaborative editing technology, and are built on the principle that travelers often get their best information from other travelers. The Wikitravel website offers more than 12,700 travel guides in 10 languages, with contributors working together to continually enhance the site’s content. World66 delivers nearly 80,000 articles on more than 19,000 destinations all over the world. The sites have extraordinary community participation, currently receiving as many as 10,000 editorial contributions per week—meaning that on average a new addition to the travel guides arrives every 60 seconds, 24 hours per day. This rate of participation is also rapidly increasing.
Another indication of the power of online collaboration and the success of the Wiki application. I wonder what the price has been?
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posted Apr 20, 11:03 PM on Apr 20, 2006 |
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