{"id":193,"date":"2004-03-08T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/08\/world66-a-different-route\/"},"modified":"2004-03-08T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T21:16:00","slug":"world66-a-different-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2004\/03\/world66-a-different-route\/","title":{"rendered":"World66 : A Different Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scan through Robin Good&#8217;s blog posts resulted in the discovery of a gem of website that goes by the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world66.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">World66.com<\/a>. Based on the premise that &#8220;travellers are the most reliable source of information for other travellers&#8221;, this website makes admirable use of wikis to provide a publishing platform for any traveller who wishes to share his pearls of wisdom with others !<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>World66.com is one of the most complete travel resources on the internet, thanks to more than 40.000 articles on 10.000 destinations all over the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company was founded by Douwe and Richard Osinga in 1999, went through the wild years of the Internet hype and came out with its soul untouched. Indeed, after a few years as a rather closed content project without a proper licence, it has now joined the open content community publishing its articles under the Creative Commons Licence.<\/p>\n<p>I had written about wikis in an earlier post, when I had first chanced upon the concept. I think this technology will make eminent sense for people in all kinds of situations. I can clearly foresee the need for a similar platform for folks seeking the truth in medicine and health, for one. There&#8217;s still no easy way to cut through all the hype put out there by pharmaceutical majors, for someone wanting to know how a particular drug works or what side effects it has to offer. And that&#8217;s just one example !<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to more such discoveries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. Of course, I couldn&#8217;t resist contributing a short note to the website on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world66.com\/asia\/southasia\/india\/maharashtra\/mumbai\/gettingaround\" target=\"_blank\">Get Around<\/a> the city of Mumbai, based on my own experiences growing up in the metropolis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scan through Robin Good&#8217;s blog posts resulted in the discovery of a gem of website that goes by the name of World66.com.  Based on the premise that &#8220;travellers are the most reliable source of information for other travellers&#8221;, this website makes admirable use of wikis to provide a publishing platform for any traveller who wishes to share his pearls of wisdom with others !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}