The new Hostelworld iPhone app - HostelHero looks friggin cool (and you can do all your research offline):...

Social Currency

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We gave our unsolicited opinion on a website and potential strategy the other day and it really got me thinking about the importance of establishing some social currency in today's Web 2.0 sites....

What can I say, but, Awesome!

Posted by: Dan Roberts
I have so much to say, but have just been so busy since getting back from Cairns with the brilliant launch of the new Backpacking Queensland site. We even made the news - hopefully, I will post the clip tomorrow. In the meantime, two websites have come to my attention that you simply have to check o...

More Hostel World praise

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When we developed the functionality to take Hostel World reviews and ratings and display them on the Base website I believed we were working with Hostel World (rather than against them) - after all Base hostels used the Hostel World property management system - and as I said earlier today, we were i...

Base and Hostel World ratings

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I have written two earlier posts regarding Base Backpackers and their courageous move allowing Hostel World reviews and ratings to appear on their website unedited. But today a thought......

Base Backpackers beta site live

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I spent the day yesterday with my mates at Base Backpackers finalising the go-live beta version of their new website as well as looking to the next few months advancement of the site. Xebidy did not design the site but we developed it onto our Bootstrap content management server which is based on th...
User-generated content is certainly a revolution and those that are harnessing its' power are winning the web game to attract customers. But are they?...

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