Bumblehood
Bumblehood was a semantic wiki company that existed from 2009 to 2012. It was headquartered in Munich, Germany with local offices in Zagreb, Croatia and Moscow, Russia.
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Headquarters | Munich, Germany, Zagreb, Croatia, Moscow, Russia |
| Key people | Boro Milivojevic, CEO & Co-founder Sergey Lyakhov, Co-founder |
| Employees | 17 (November 2009) |
| URL | bumblehood.com |
| Registration | optional |
| Launched | February 15th 2009 |
The company's main project was a semantically organized community-driven web portal which provided a knowledge base about countries and cities worldwide.[1]
Website
Features
Bumblehood was based on semantic data organization and utilized the topic maps paradigm,[2] enabling access to contextual information. It was oriented on providing geo-specific knowledge and local business directories with user opinions and reviews. Some of the covered topics included geography, economy, politics, history, culture, points of interest, various local information etc.[3] The portal's content could be edited by any registered user through a WYSIWYG wiki interface, and all information was accessible without the need for registration.
BumbleMap Platform
BumbleMap was the software platform for collaborative knowledge management that the Bumblehood portal was run on.[4] It was based on the topic maps paradigm and provided tree-based visualization of the topic map with a contextual menu adhering to typing of topics, associations and occurrences.
References
External links
- Bumblehood Portal (site no longer exists)
- BumbleMap official site (site no longer exists)
- Bumblehood CrunchBase profile
- Bumblehood review on TechPluto