Website www.globosapiens.net Founded Hamburg | Headquarters Munich | |
Industry Internet, image data bank, social networking | ||
GLOBOsapiens is a cooperation headquartered in Munich, Germany, providing Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its multicultural oriented Worldwide Internet Travel Community, GLOBOsapiens.net, and a classified service named findix. GLOBOsapiens was founded out of a University diploma thesis at HdM-Stuttgart by Walter Andreas Pucko. It went live in June 2002 and was incorporated on April 2004.
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Travelers' community
GLOBOsapiens is a growing travellers' community subscribing travel enthusiasts from around the world. Basic membership is free. Members have an opportunity to build up their own travel pages by submitting proprietary material such as photographs, travel logs and travel stories. The material is rated and commented on by other members. GLOBOsapiens uses star system. Photographs and travel reports can be awarded from one to five stars. Material receiving the highest rating is sorted in the main picture gallery and reports page, respectively. In addition, members can join existing discussion groups or propose creation of new groups.
GLOBOsapiens allows members to submit travel tips, which are grouped by countries, where members are free to share their opinions about restaurants, hotels, bars, clubs, travel agents, and internet cafes. Members are permitted to provide their own descriptions of places they visited, creating travel guides.
Members are awarded points for the contributions they make to the community. Every month, GLOBOsapiens presents four honorary awards: the Member of the Month, the Picture of the Month, the Report of the Month, and the Album of the Month.
Origins of the name
As increasingly more people travel the world, they become familiar with cultures from far away places. And according to the philosophy of the community, HOMOsapiens has turned into a GLOBOsapiens.
GLOBOsapiens is one of many successful portals on the internet that have brought travellers close together from the entire world. It has become a social network for the adventurous and one of the top travel portals of its kind.