Website bumblehood.com Launched February 15th 2009 Type of business Private | Registration optional Number of employees 17 (November 2009) Headquarters Munich, Zagreb, Moscow | |
Key people Boro Milivojevic, CEO & Co-founder
Sergey Lyakhov, Co-founder Alexa rank 11,686,895 (April 2013) | ||
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.
Contents
The company's main project was a semantically organized community-driven web portal which provided a knowledge base about countries and cities worldwide.
How bumblehood works
Features
Bumblehood was based on semantic data organization and utilized the topic maps paradigm, 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. 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. 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.