{"id":219,"date":"2007-02-22T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmediatrends.fdim.fujacks.pil.dk\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:07:48","slug":"guide-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/guide-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guides are really big these days it seems. The other day I told about three new city-guides<\/a> – and now we have yet another guide-site. This time only the destination is the whole world, not just Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

“Turen g\u00e5r til” (“The trip takes you to”) is a well reknowned (is it market leading?) Danish travellers guide published by the JP\/Politikens hus<\/a>. A printed guide\u00a0which went to the web\u00a0with a\u00a0“softlaunch\/silent beta”<\/a> sometime this January, I believe. This is what it looks like (if you choose the map-section of the site):<\/p>\n

\"Tureng\u00e5rtil\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Interesting enough this guide – like the three cityguides – features both a Google map\u00a0mash-up and usergenerated content, on top of the editorial content. Users can upload photos from destinations from around the world –\u00a0as well as\u00a0writing their own articles and comments.<\/p>\n

That is: within the past few month we’ve got\u00a0four very, very “web 2.0-ish” new danish guide websites hitting the street. Web 2.0-ish in the sense that they’re open, letting the users get inside, inviting them in as co-authers – while at the same time drawing on the openess of others, namely Google, who has put their map-technology to the use of everybody, who wants to use it (and are willing to brand Google maps by the same token).<\/p>\n

It does make sense, I think, that all of these web 2.0 initiatives are put into the area of “guides”: this is for sure one area, where you can expect users to have something to say – and have a chance, that they will actually do it, if they find your site interesting and giving enough. An area where you can expect the “wisdom of the crowds” to actually make sense (if you are really able to gather a crowd, that is).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guides are really big these days it seems. The other day I told about three new city-guides – and now we have yet another guide-site. This time only the destination is the whole world, not just Copenhagen. “Turen g\u00e5r til” (“The trip takes you to”) is a well reknowned (is it market leading?) Danish travellers… L\u00e6s mere »Guide to the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}