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"Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is -- and has to be -- an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what's really there and what's only in him.\r\n\r\n-Pico Iyer\r\nIn March of this year, I wrote a post titled, &amp;quot;Why Gogobot makes Google and TripAdvisor look like folding car maps.&amp;quot; The service is fast-becoming a much-loved, travel savvy community. Gogobot is a San Francisco based travel planning startup founded by\u00A0MySpace\u2019s former GM International\u00A0Travis Katz and\u00A0Ori Zaltzman, the former Chief Architect of Yahoo Boss,\u00A0that opened up its public beta in November 2010 after raising $4 million from Battery Ventures.\r\n\r\nLater this spring, Gogobot announced major partnerships with the top travel booking sites including Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz, Priceline and Hotels.com, gearing up Gogobot\u00A0to be the #1 social platform for travel and wanderlust exploration.\u00A0On Gogobot, users can search for travel recommendations from their friends via Twitter and Facebook and look at the top recommendations (e.g. London restaurants) from the entire Gogobot community. You can also post questions within the Gogobot\u00A0community\u00A0and out to friends on your social networks and filter travel results by who you\u2019re following as opposed to the general Gogobot community.\r\n\r\nToday, Gogobot released its much-anticipated mobile app\u00A0\u2013 a tool for iPhone users to explore nearby areas, discover new restaurants, bars, activities, hotels and access itineraries created on the main site. It's a beautiful trip planning tool in your pocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201CTravel is all about discovering new experiences and sharing them with your friends and family.\u00A0 With Gogobot\u2019s mobile app you can capture, personalize, and instantaneously share your favorite moments with as richly-styled digital postcards.\u00A0 You can also use the app to explore what\u2019s nearby, and check out places your friends have recommended,\u201D said Travis Katz, Gogobot co-founder and CEO.\r\nTo use the app to document your travels, select your current location, snap a picture, and choose from more than ten different styles and filters to transform your photos into geo-tagged digital postcards, which you can then share with friends via Facebook or Twitter. Each postcard is added automatically to your Gogobot Guide on the site.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve been completely sucked into playing on Gogobot, but it\u2019s hardly time wasted compared to an hour playing Angry Birds. I\u2019m helping to build a community I care about, for a future of better travel planning while also keeping a record of my own travels. And now that it's on mobile, I'm that much more apt to use it to plan and keep record of my trips.\u00A0Where will you go next? Download the iOS app here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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