TravelPod was named as a finalist in the “excellence in social media applications” category of the Canadian New Media Awards.
Why, you ask?
Developers at this website created a little Facebook application called Traveler IQ. The addictive geography game took the world by storm last summer. Everybody and their mom spent days trying to improve their Traveler IQ by clicking as closely as possible to the CN Tower on a frustratingly small world map.
The game is still going strong and it’s recently been set loose on other social media platforms such as MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Hi5 and Orkut.
The winners of this year’s Canadian New Media Awards will be announced November 18, 2008 in Toronto.
Don’t know what your Traveler IQ is yet? Add the application to your favourite social network profile, and find out.
Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager
Tags: Bebo, Canadian New Media Award, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, MySpace, Orkut, Traveler IQ, TravelPod
June 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm |
Winning my first award this year was a great feeling, and the ceremony was great so congratulations and good luck!!
June 17, 2008 at 2:03 pm |
Thanks Darren, which award did you win?
June 17, 2008 at 2:11 pm |
Travel Rants won the Travolution Best Travel consumer blog award, at the end of April, the awards ceremony was in London.
Quite an achievement when I work full-time and blog in my spare time.
June 17, 2008 at 2:19 pm |
Nice, good for you! Are there any more coming up I should know about?
June 17, 2008 at 2:24 pm |
Well, I could start a rant comment so soon after finding your blog, but I will behave, and say that there are not many travel or worse still, any travel awards with blog categories.
I’m not aware of any others this year.
June 18, 2008 at 9:15 am |
Ohhhhh, I entered the Travvies this year, so there’s one. Have you seen that one? It’s at http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com
June 19, 2008 at 10:21 am |
Congratulations on your nomination!
June 19, 2008 at 12:00 pm |
Thanks, we’re pretty excited over here.