For quite a few months (even years) since iGuidez has been in touch with various tourist boards and organisations, the road to promoting video guides in Belfast appears to have not only fallen on deaf ears but been ground into dust. On first impressions, our emails to city officials and office clerks usually met with [...]
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NI tourism reeks of political goons.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
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Belfast pubs make digital jump.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Pubs and hostels in Belfast are making it into the digital era by being featured in our iGuidez video guides. We’ve uploaded several more places which let users now see them in a wholly new way. For example, Laverys Pub which is owned by a family in the trade for 150 years opened their doors [...]
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Pubs and hostels in Belfast are making it into the digital era by being featured in our iGuidez video guides. We’ve uploaded several more places which let users now see them in a wholly new way. For example, Laverys Pub which is owned by a family in the trade for 150 years opened their doors [...]
Profitting from video guides 2
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
As a follow-up on our previous July article on ‘Profitting from video guides’ we have a great example on this in action. We completed a video guide of one of Belfast’s most recognized and visited pubs called Laverys. They have now embedded the video on their home page for all to watch. It’s a simple [...]
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As a follow-up on our previous July article on ‘Profitting from video guides’ we have a great example on this in action. We completed a video guide of one of Belfast’s most recognized and visited pubs called Laverys. They have now embedded the video on their home page for all to watch. It’s a simple [...]
A religious gem in Belfast
Monday, July 13th, 2009
There can hardly be a more nondescript building in Belfast than the First Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast. At the same time though, there’s also probably no other structure that is as underestimated than the First Church. For a start, the recently renovated façade doesn’t easily show it’s almost quarter of a century age. [...]
There can hardly be a more nondescript building in Belfast than the First Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast. At the same time though, there’s also probably no other structure that is as underestimated than the First Church. For a start, the recently renovated façade doesn’t easily show it’s almost quarter of a century age. [...]
Radioactive tours in Chernobyl
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Not for the faint-hearted or paranoid – there’s now tours to be booked around the Chernobyl radioactive zone. Tourists, or rather, ‘visitors’ as they are being curiously referred to according to a Times article are being thrown into the deep end of where the Geiger Counter would no doubt have a field day. Sight-seers are [...]
Not for the faint-hearted or paranoid – there’s now tours to be booked around the Chernobyl radioactive zone. Tourists, or rather, ‘visitors’ as they are being curiously referred to according to a Times article are being thrown into the deep end of where the Geiger Counter would no doubt have a field day. Sight-seers are [...]
Traditional guides are dead!
Friday, July 10th, 2009
We’ve just uploaded a video of iGuidez.com on an iPhone. The quality is not the best but the message it presents is astonishing. It’s the first time we’ve really put it through the mill and the results are surprisingly good. What this has really proven now is that traditional travel guides are dead in the [...]
We’ve just uploaded a video of iGuidez.com on an iPhone. The quality is not the best but the message it presents is astonishing. It’s the first time we’ve really put it through the mill and the results are surprisingly good. What this has really proven now is that traditional travel guides are dead in the [...]
The “Spoken” Web
Friday, July 10th, 2009
An interesting article in the Economist magazine really puts into perspective how the internet can be used by illiterate users as a means to develop their own web services. Before, there was plenty of talk about how Google and others wanted to design apps to make mobiles easier to use simply with voice recognition. This [...]
An interesting article in the Economist magazine really puts into perspective how the internet can be used by illiterate users as a means to develop their own web services. Before, there was plenty of talk about how Google and others wanted to design apps to make mobiles easier to use simply with voice recognition. This [...]
Churches are not just for the faithful!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Here’s an edited version of a blogpost we were asked to contribute to Travel2Educate: Next time you hit the European shores with your travel guide in hand spare a moment’s thought for the sights you want to visit if you really, really want to absorb some of the local culture. For the truth is travel [...]
Here’s an edited version of a blogpost we were asked to contribute to Travel2Educate: Next time you hit the European shores with your travel guide in hand spare a moment’s thought for the sights you want to visit if you really, really want to absorb some of the local culture. For the truth is travel [...]
Profiting from video guides
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
It’s still quite clear that many businesses are wary of video guides and are probably unaware of the real potential that they are missing out of. So, what exactly is a video guide and how does it help a business? -a video guide is a mini documentary (a behind the scenes look) of your [...]
It’s still quite clear that many businesses are wary of video guides and are probably unaware of the real potential that they are missing out of. So, what exactly is a video guide and how does it help a business? -a video guide is a mini documentary (a behind the scenes look) of your [...]
A Googlist: Google’s new soldier.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Google have taken a rather novel approach to increasing their unparalleled street mapping services by employing cyclists on ricksaws to map tourist attractions off the beaten track. Reported by the Times, since cars or vehicles cannot get anywhere near these monuments and points of interest that are located in the middle of parks, fields and [...]
Google have taken a rather novel approach to increasing their unparalleled street mapping services by employing cyclists on ricksaws to map tourist attractions off the beaten track. Reported by the Times, since cars or vehicles cannot get anywhere near these monuments and points of interest that are located in the middle of parks, fields and [...]