By: Co-Editor, RB:
The way media is consumed in this country has become extremely specialized and fragmented. First cable television exploded on the scene to offer programming geared towards specific groups, Nickelodeon for kids, Lifetime for woman and so on.
The Internet takes that fragmentation a bit further. There are sites for kids, seniors, napkin folding, and salad forks. So when a site claims to be a female friendly travel site, they are seeking a larger demographic than most specialized sites.
Holidaygoddess.com bills itself as the Internet’s freshest female-friendly travel website edited by over 30 women from around the world whose career adventures include Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Dolly, Harpers Bazaar, Grazia, Rolling Stone and even Mad magazine.
Holiday Goddess is a travel website, e-magazine, Facebook page and Twitter feed for women who live for their holidays and need to know the best deals and secrets, and real-person tips. It is women sharing their classified travel information with other women.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
It seems that foodie population in this country is growing exponentially. This would seem to be in stark contrast to the growth of obesity in this country. Logic dictates that the more you know about food, the less likely you are to eat in an unhealthy manner. Maybe both groups are growing, just like there are more people living in poverty while we have more millionaires than ever, even adjusted for inflation. My opinion is that technology has a lot to do with the ever-growing disparity between poor and rich. However, I will leave that analysis to social scientists, I am here to talk about food.
We have covered many food related sites in this space including Textaurant.com (Helping you avoid long waits at your favorite restaurants), iate.com (organizing your restaurant tweets); and tastespace.com (Search for a restaurant or bar based on social criteria). Now out of New York City comes theSUGGESTR.com.
Launched in February, theSUGGESTR is all about providing you personalized suggestions rather than a list of search results. They make personalized suggestions for restaurants, hotels and other businesses make sure you spend your money at places you’ll love.
The founders of the site admit that the site is not that simple to use. But once you understand it, the hope is that it will provide you with indispensable information.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
As previously stated, we have covered many food related sites in this space including Textaurant.com (Helping you avoid long waits at your favorite restaurants), iate.com; and tastespace.com (Search for a restaurant or bar based on social criteria).
Another new site in this space that we have found is called SaveMyTable.com. The site is based in Boston and was launched in March. SaveMyTable.com is a web-based SaaS that empowers restaurant host-stands with automated wait list management and on-line reservations. In that regard it is most similar to Textaurant.com. It couples this with voice-call and SMS text message guest paging.
Walk-Ins and Reservations are entered, or come in via the web. SaveMyTable.com automatically manages the wait list, along with seating assignments for every guest. The host is informed of wait times for every guest in the wait list, and tables are held automatically for upcoming reservations.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:
Vacation homes seems to be the flavor du jour on the web. I recently did a story on mimbeo.com. Now there is another company who has a different spin on accessing vacation homes on the web.
SecondPorch.com is a brand new innovative, Facebook application that allows user to trade and rent vacation homes among their trusted group of friends and networks. Based in Portland Oregon and launched SecondPorch.com is the first socially enabled vacation home site available on Facebook. Its Facebook application is titled “Rent & Trade Vacation Homes”.
Vacation home rentals are a growing $50 billion industry. Currently there are 8 million second homeowners in the United States alone, of which less than 25% are used as rentals. In today’s tight economy, SecondPorch.com is offering a chance for consumers to significantly save money, as well as create a new outlet to recoup investments of owners strapped by second mortgages.
Brent Hieggelke launched SecondPorch.com not just because vacation home rentals are the fastest growing segment of the lodging industry, but also because he had a rental horror story of his own. Apparently a few years ago, Mr. Hieggelke’s father rented his vacation home through traditional means only to find that the group of 20 men hosting a bachelor party managed to cause about $4,000 worth of damage including a fireplace glass door broken, all of the pictures on the walls of historic photos had been broken, and glasses of red wine had been smashed against the walls. Mr. Hieggelke knew right then that someone needed to create a way to rent or trade vacation homes among a trusted group of friends thus Second Porch was born.
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By: The Editor
The first American railroad charter was obtained on February 6, 1815, by Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken, New Jersey. Stevens was granted permission by the government to build and operate a railroad between the Delaware and Raritan Rivers near Trenton, New Jersey, and New Brunswick, Canada.
In the last 194 years since Colonel Stevens vision, the entire global transportation system has grown beyond what most people can even comprehend.
NewEnglandRailroad which is located in Maine plans on bring back some of the classic charm that railroads once represented. The have estimated launch date of summer 2010. They initially plan to travel between Portland, Maine and Montreal. They have the most unbelievable trains that makes you want to remember a time where the world operated at a slower pace.
