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Build a personalized, up-to-date travel guide in just 5 easy steps! www.offbeatguides.com
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Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2007
Mentions in press and media 11
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| Dec 3, 2009 | Duffel: A Virtual Bulletin Board For Planning Your Next Trip | It seems that every day there’s a new travel site looking to streamline the process of planning out your itinerary. And for good reason: trips, even the fun ones, are usually a total pain to plan. Those problems are only magnified when you’... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | tripwolf adds more content from Footprint travel guides | [Austria] Social travel guide tripwolf.com has announced a deeper long-term partnership with travel book publisher Footprint. Both companies are increasing their existing partnership (so far limited to only a couple of countries) with a ful... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Google Dips Its Toe Into Travel Space With City Tours | Google has just debuted the latest entry to its fleet of Labs products, introducing the search giant to the travel space. Dubbed City Tours, the new site can build itineraries for brief trips to locations around the globe in a matter of sec... |
| May 8, 2009 | Ex-Googlers Try To Create A Better Travel Guide With Nextstop | Are you looking for the best beer bars in the world, good places to make out in San Francisco, or where to go on the Big Island in Hawaii? A travel recommendation site called nextstop mixes social recommendations with search and adds a repu... |
| Apr 26, 2009 | Have Kindle, Will Travel — And Stay Up-To-Date Thanks To Offbeat Guides | I used to think the Kindle was stupid. Then I bought one and realized I was wrong. It’s still way too expensive, but it’s great at what it does. And what it does keeps on expanding. Now, it takes a step into the up-to-date travel guide mark... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Dopplr And MAXroam Are Now Travel Buddies | Cubic Telecom, the TechCrunch40 company behind the traveler-friendly SIM card MAXroam, has partnered with Dopplr to sell the card through its online store. The Dopplr -branded SIM card will be available for a reduced rate of €45 (down five ... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Offbeat Guides Launches Affiliate Program; Grab Promo Codes Here | Offbeat Guides, the travel site launched last summer by Technorati founder Dave Sifry, has launched a new affiliate program. Affiliates will make an 8% commission on every purchase driven from their sites; to help get the program started, O... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Officially Launches OffBeatGuides.com: DIY Guidebooks On the Go | Technorati founder Dave Sifry found himself far from home – Dalian, China, to be exact, a city of 7 million near Shenyang. While hunting for guidebooks, he thumbed through multiple volumes and found plenty on the terracotta warriors and Bei... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | TC50: GoPlanit Generates Your Travel Itinerary With One Click | There are countless travel sites available on the web that detail the best things to do in every major city on the planet. But with so many options, actually booking a trip is a major hassle: attractions may close on seemingly random days, ... |
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FAQ about Offbeat Guides
When was Offbeat Guides founded?
Offbeat Guides was founded in 2007.
What has the press written about Offbeat Guides?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Offbeat Guides, among them “Duffel: A Virtual Bulletin Board For Planning Your Next Trip” (Dec 3, 2009) and “tripwolf adds more content from Footprint travel guides” (Oct 15, 2009).
Is Offbeat Guides still active?
Offbeat Guides is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 14, 2010.