After I have discovered the travel website 43 Places closer this week, I could not resist to enter as much places I went to in the past and those I would like to visit in the future. The degree of interaction among users is stunning. Others can cheer on your goals, subscribe to your travel activities and comment on these. Additionally, every location can be tagged and these tags are connected to del.icio.us or Technorati – pics are linked to Flickr tags. It’s real fun exploring others opinions about places you wanna visit.
Currently, 43 Places has over 27,500 user – growing with about 1.5% per day – after its launch July 27, 2005. The team behind 43 Places is Robot Co-op, who already setup 43 Things and recently All Consuming – both more market research sites where user’s can be targeted very precisely with ads. Read some background information about 43 Things here. I am curious how they will develop 43 Places further, not only in terms of technology used – so far only cumbersome manuel entry is possible – but more in terms of their implemented business model – hopefully it goes beyond just ads.