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Gogobot Unveils Plans To Evolve Online Travel, Takes $4 Million From Battery...

Apparently it’s former MySpace exec venture capital funding day. Earlier we announced the BeachMint news ($5 million). And now gogobot, a new travel website founded by MySpace’s former GM...

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Gogobot: Travel Discovery Goes Social And Visual; SEO-Gaming Link Farms Weep

The state of online travel exploration and discovery is very, very poor. Most sites seem to be either a link farm or a black hole of useful, but impenetrable links. I don’t know about you, but to me,...

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Gogobot Adds Passport Travel Review Collections

Gogobot is one of my favorite new startups of 2010. The site first launched in November – it gives users an easy way to review hotels, restaurants and activities and share them with friends. It’s not...

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Gogobot Gets Lots More Interesting With Foursquare & Facebook Integration

I like to think of Gogobot as a Yelp for travel, or a TripAdvisor that puts users first. If you travel a lot and want to write about the things you did, or if you want good tips on travel, it’s an...

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Gogobot Brings Game Mechanics And Rewards To Online Travel

With the rise in prominence of the social graph, we’ve seen the proliferation of services like Facebook Connect, which have brought the social web to third party sites and helped make sharing an...

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If Gogobot Hasn't Sucked You In Already, This New Flipboard-like Layout Will

Gogobot is a truly special startup. Beautifully designed and very useful are two things that are rarely found together, but Gogobot has both. We first covered them last year. But they didn’t unveil the...

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Gogobot Takes Social Travel Discovery Platform Mobile With iOS App

Travel discovery startup Gogobot is making its first entry into the mobile space today with a new, free iOS app. In case you aren’t familiar, Gogobot is sort of like a Yelp for travel. The site...

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With Growth Surging, Gogobot Raises $15 Million For Social Travel

Gogobot, a social travel site that launched less than a year ago, is on a tear. The company has racked up accolades including being named one of Time’s top sites of 2011 and winner of the 2010 Crunchie...

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Backed By Former Google Exec & More, Twigmore Brings Travel Networking To...

There are a lot of sites popping up these days trying to make travel recommendations better and more precise. Some, like Triposo, are making travel apps based on algorithms, while Trippy wants to give...

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Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital...

Since launching early last year, young social travel site Gogobot has been off to a pretty good start, or at least it has, shall we say, been hitting all the stops. As Jason pointed out recently, it...

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Gogobot's First Big iPhone Upgrade Gives Users A Mobile, Friendsourced Trip...

With the social travel space taking off right now, and competition increasing, it really behooves the bigger players in the space not to do too much smelling of the roses. Social travel planning...

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More Social Travel: Tripbirds Picks Up $740k From Path's Dave Morin, Others....

On the heels of last week’s announcement of “social” hostel booking site InBed.me picking up a $1.2m seed round, another social travel site is launching today: Tripbirds, which lets users pick up...

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Gogobot Opens For Business In Europe (Smart Move: 44% Of Its Customers Are...

Social travel site Gogobot is doing a little traveling of its own. Today, it’s announcing the opening of its first European headquarters, in London. The move, says Travis Katz, the CEO and founder of...

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Social Travel Service Gogobot Passes 1 Million Registered Users

We’ve been covering Gogobot since it first launched in early 2010. It took the social travel discovery and advice site a little while to find its niche, but since about the middle of 2011, it’s been...

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Social Travel Site Gogobot Redesigns: Less Text, More Photos

Gogobot, the social travel site that recently passed the 1 million registered user mark, just launched an interesting redesign this week that turn the site’s homepage into more of an interactive...

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Gogobot Launches Its Redesigned iPhone Travel App, Hits 2M Registered Users

Social travel site Gogobot has been on a roll lately. Just two months ago, the company announced that it had passed 1 million registered users. Today, Gogobot announced that it now has more than 2...

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Social Travel Site Gogobot Adds Realtime Hotel Pricing, OpenTable Integration...

The online travel space has been all abuzz thanks to Priceline’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Kayak last week, representing one of the largest deals the space has seen to date. In part, Priceline’s...

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Gogobot Teams Up With Travel + Leisure To Bring Expert Reviews, Curated...

Since launching in November 2010, social travel startup Gogobot has been on a mission to remove the shoddy design and link farm tendencies from the old world of online travel discovery. Because travel...

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With 40% Of Its 2.5M Users Now Logging In Via Mobile, Gogobot Finally Brings...

Since launching in 2010, social travel startup Gogobot has been trying to play a role in legitimizing online travel discovery, fighting the shoddy design and link farm leanings that reined in the...

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DealAngel Launching API To Let Other Sites Build Hotel Pricing Intelligence...

DealAngel, the site that lets you search for hotels and compare prices based on their historic and broader market value to ensure you really are getting a good deal, has launched a private beta of its...

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