We're building the first comprehensive and unique list of online travel video guides of buildings and landmarks of art, castles, churches, monuments, museums, public buildings, statues and ruins that contain researched location based information on maps. Included are photos and links for further reference. Each video guide is categorized and geo-tagged on maps making it an ideal application for tourism, education, local history and general research. Check out Belfast and Bologna for our most diverse range of travel video guides.
Video: San Giovanni Battista dei Celestini
Video: Crescent Church
Video: Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga
Video: First Presbyterian Church
Video: La Vecia Cantena d’la Pre
Video: Laverys Pub
Virtual museum tours are hardly new yet, they still lack that real sense of being there - obviously. Virtual Worlds, on the other hand, are really beginning to entice people from the real world to do business online. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width=...
Finally, it has been suggested (in TC tonight), that an open database of places should now be everyone’s priority. Google, ...
Who wouldn't like to live in a castle? Not many I bet. For Clark Lawerence though he is quite literally the King of the castle - Castello di Galeazza. Yesterday evening was a rather belated St Patrick's Day celebration in the castle which i...
In producing a video of the Trans Siberian tour, Google have for some odd reason given up using their standard photography and opted instead for video. Why was this? The article in the Guardian a couple of days a...
The hills of Predappio hide a fantastic history - and it has nothing to do with that other well known feature: Mussolini! Our latest video guide of the Oratorio dell Maesta illustrates a little unkown, and certinaly least vi...
We've finally got around to setting up our free travel guide of Bologna. It's taken a couple of months and several reworkings of the design until we are now 90% satisfied that its ready to go. [caption id="attachment_507" align="alignleft" width="231" caption="Sample guide 1"]...
Speculation these days about Apple's new tablet referred to as the iSlate could really blow the hinges of the doors for Location Based Services. Tablet fever has only begun to filter through in the latter part of 2009 but the full extent of the advances from this industry has not even begun to ripple through to mainstream media circles...
TechCrunch reports on a new competitor to hit the street mapping market seen here. They go on to add: ...
...before the shit really hits the fan. The internet appears to be awash with location based services now, or rather gaming services to be precise. An interesting paradox is also on the rise according to ...
About a year or so ago (in an outdated blog) we suggested that with the advent of mobiles having been developed to scan headstones by a Japanese company, it surely would not be long before buildings and landmarks would have some sort of bar code stuck to their very walls so that a passerby could wander up to it and discover what the coman...
The digital era of travel guides is a roller coaster. It's clear that the next generation of guides will certainly have a digital format of some sort but it's also quite evident that there appears to be a huge gulf between what publishers would like to do and what people on the street are actually purchasing. The latter no doubt is what e...
At the heart of Google's vast digital library programme is quite possibly another branch of information gathering that at first looks like its just digitising more material but location is a core factor this time. ...
Online learning resources are helping modern day parents educate their children easier and quicker than ever. However, the medium of video is affecting this trend to an even greater extent even if traditional forms are still struggling to make real ground across the internet board. According to ...
The new online medium of Video is presenting some fundamental problems with users. Despite it obvious advantages and ease of absorbing information with little to no effort required people still seem to have video fatigue. But why? Well, for a start a little browse through some of this week's tweets ...
In a first for an English town, Swindon borough council have sensationally announced they will be introducing free Wifi for the whole town. The news was carried on radio and tv today while the BBC online reports further that the council: "plan for ...
Here's an amazing web site that specialises in local information and is probably as close to Wikipedia's DNA profile as can be imagined. ...
Is the renowned World Travel Market in London a tad bit old fashioned? True, there were hordes of people, industry leaders, thousands of travel agents, encouraging and colourful stalls representing the small and big countries around the world - even Danni Minogue! - fantastic disp...
After a difficult year in the Hotel business, it hardly comes as a surprise that travellers – which applies to the whole hog from Backpackers to seasoned holiday-makers – are scouring the planet for more efficient ways to glean as much info from their local environs as possible. The introductory line from an article in the ...
Google has really given the Sat-nav industry a bloody nose and it looks like some-one could get knocked out! Considering the blow landed just before last weekend shareholders in many companies around the world may have been holding their breaths this morning waiting to see if their shares would rebound. Both the Times (...
Hitchin may be a small town in Hertfordshire but it prides itself on being historically linked as an old market town oozing with ancient cultures and famous people. The Hitchin.net web site states that: Although now best known for it's weekly market Hitchin's history stretches far back in time. The earliest part of...
Everyone is beginning to jump onboard the 'Geolocation' bandwagon now. This obviously says a lot for where the future of any web service is heading. TechCrunch tonight reported no less than 5 major companies switching on their radars for locations based services. Starting with a fantasti...
Just spotted an interesting article on Video Marketing on ReelSeo.com. It follows a little rant I had in the last iGuidez blog about how businesses, particularly in West Europe are turning their noses up at 'amateur' styled video content. They discuss a Vi...
When Rumsfeld called Europeans backward during those years of the war build up in Iraq, he may not have been totally wrong. At the time he was referring to our rather sluggish ways at progress and our lazy approach to get the job done... in fact, everything opposite to how Americans behave. Of course, there's nothing wrong with diversi...
OpenStreetMap may not wield a big stick like Google but it certainly knows how to mobilise its user-base. Furthermore, if not already obvious,OpenStreetMap definitely isn't as 'sexy' as Streetwise but they have probably secured their biggest round of support so far in the form...
Video guides when done right with rich content will eventually rise to the top of search engine lists. As the saying goes: Content is King. Slowly but surely our video guides are beginning to see positive results on Google's search engine. Having discussed this subject a few times before, such as ...
The well reputed method of education at a distance may be seeing the humble beginnings of a wiki-style system. Is this the end of traditional education as we know it? An article in the Times deals with a new trend that was spotted by a would-be s...
In a great article the Onion has published a story about the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York letting customers paw, scratch and poke at a selection of its very valuable and prestigious paintings. Here's fabulous "quote": ...
As a continuation of our post Augmented Reality need GEO partnerships another little news article on AR just came to light, albeit last week. We're not really behind, just lazy... A little unknown company - until now that is - claimed top spot at ...
Everyone by now has a good grasp of video content online and will have at some stage been on a video web site or stumbled upon one. With this in mind here's a few interesting stats we found on IABUK.net: 29.6 million people in the UK accessed online video in January 2009 (co...
Video guides are gaining momentum in Bologna. A few people namely in the hotel industry but also bars and restaurants are beginning to take note of the extra potential that video guides represent to their individual businesses. In fact, we had a meeting with a few separate people representing various Bolognese hospitality organisations la...
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