Press Mentions
Kara Swisher interviews Offbeat Guides CEO David Sifry http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090515/kara-visits-offbeat-guides/ | 15th May, 2009
Kara Swisher does a video interview with Dave to talk about Offbeat Guides.
[http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090515/kara-visits-offbeat-guides/]
Have Kindle, Will Travel- And Stay Up-To-Date Thanks To Offbeat Guides TechCrunch | 26 April, 2009
By MG Siegler — Annoucement that Offbeat Guides is now available on the Amazon Kindle
[http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/26/have-kindle-will-travel-and-stay-up-to-date-thanks-to-offbeat-guides/]
Top Websites of the Month Martha Stewart Living Magazine | August 2009
One of three top websites of the month. "Travel guidebooks are handy, but they are often outdated after a few months on the shelf. Here, you enter your destination and dates of travel, and the site generates a custom, up to the minute itinerary, complete with local maps, event listings, weather forecast, common phrases and much more".
Offbeat Guides lands Singapore Airlines VatorNews | May 11, 2009
By Bambi Francisco — Sifry's Zaragoza Zaggat-sized travel guide contained much of the information he needed, including weather information and events taking place the days he planned to be there. Now, Sifry tells me that Offbeat Guides just launched with Singapore Airlines, a likely first step toward more airline relationships.
[http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-05-11-offbeat-guides-lands-singapore-airlines]
Travel Technology Travel Mole | April 28, 2009
Offbeat Guides announces that 500 Offbeat Guides will now be available on the Amazon Kindle, putting you in touch with the many unique places that you’re planning to visit! There’s no more up-to-date guide available anywhere.
[http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1136065.php]
Kindle, Travel Up-To-Date by Offbeat Guides YODspica Ltd. | April 27, 2009
Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to find 500 of the company’s newest guides. Just like the Offbeat Guides regular guidebook products, Kindle-ready guidebooks are better up-to-date than traditional guidebooks. They are updated every month.
[http://yodspica.eu/yodspica_blog/2009/04/27/kindle-travel-up-to-date-by-offbeat-guides/]
Amazon Kindle 2 now with Up-To-Date Offbeat Guides Tech Fever | April 27, 2009
Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to find 500 guides from Offbeat Guides, a customizable travel guide service, in the Kindle store at prices ranging from $3.99 for smaller cities to $7.99 for larger ones.
[http://techfever.net/2009/04/27/amazon-kindle-2-now-with-up-to-date-offbeat-guides/]
Offbeat Guides Informilo | March 3, 2009
By Jennifer L. Schenker — Combining the Web and Paper to Create Modern-Day Travel Guides, Offbeat Guides creates personalized, up-to-date paper travel guides using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.
[http://www.informilo.com/tag/offbeat-guides]
Off Beat Guides Review G4 | February 19, 2009
By Ty Colfax — Off Beat Guides is an excellent new tool to help you make the most out of your next trip to a new place, complete with practical information like where to park and how to get there, right down to where to go to dance your ass off.
[http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/webtools/66261/Off-Beat-Guides-Review.html]
Offbeat Guides - Create & Print Your Custom Travel Guides ShanKrila | February 12, 2009
Offbeat Guides is different where it allows you to customize your travel guide based on your travel dates, preferences and destination.
[http://www.shankrila.com/life-matters/offbeat-guides-personalized-travel-guides/]
David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides Ad Hocnium | February 9, 2009
Unlike many travel guides which were written over a year ago by a travel writer who quickly popped in and out of the city you will be visiting, Offbeat Guides are customized with the most up-to-date information written by locals and put together by travel editors and curators.
[http://adhocnium.com/tag/offbeat-guides/]
Offbeat Guides vs. Lonely Planet Scrappy Marketing | January 27, 2009
Offbeat Guides was launched by Technorati founder Dave Sifry. Unlike Lonely Planet, each of their travel guides is custom-made based on your travel destination and preferences and much of the information comes from various free Internet sources such as Wikipedia, Flickr and Google Maps.
[http://scrappymarketing.com/2009/01/offbeat-guides-lonely-planet/]
Just for you: customized Offbeat Guides Family Travel Guide | January 19th, 2009
Our Grand Rapids guide included an AccuWeather forecast for the teacher conference days, restaurants/bars/pubs near the hotel, Google maps, city history because I’d requested it, sites of cultural interest, music concerts and arts events during the specific conference days in July, local transportation (including local street-naming quirks) and even a discussion of the large amount of Grand Rapids public art and where to find it.
[http://www.familytravellogue.com/just-for-you-customized-offbeat-guides.html]
Personalized Travel Books Blend Search and Curation Springwise | November 19, 2008
The internet has long offered online alternatives to the traditional printed travel guide, frequently with more current information and at least rudimentary customization capabilities. A new service from Technorati founder David Sifry, however, takes the concept a step further by tapping into the full wealth of information now available online with a professionally printed and ad-free personalized format that puts all the personally relevant parts in one place.
[http://www.springwise.com/media_publishing/personalized_travel_books_blen/]
PSFK Talks to David L. Sifry, Offbeat Guides PSFK | November 18, 2008
PSFK Germany recently had the chance to talk to David L. Sifry - whom many of you probably know as the founder and CEO of Technorati. His most recent venture is Offbeat Guides, an online service to easily produce customized travel guides.
[http://www.psfk.com/2008/11/interview-with-david-l-sifry-from-offbeat-guides.html]
Interview with Dave Sifry Mobuzz | November 14, 2008
Mobuzz.tv interviews David Sifry, founder and CEO of Offbeat Guides, at the Monaco Media Forum.
[http://dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv/shows/interview_with_david_sifry]
Dave Sifry's New Venture: Offbeat Guides Media Culpa | November 12, 2008
David Sifry, founder of blog search engine Technorati, today officially launched his new venture Offbeat Guides at SIME in Stockholm.
[http://www.kullin.net/2008/11/david-sifrys-new-venture-offbeat-guides.html]
Customized Travel Guides with Offbeat Guides Readerszone | November 12, 2008
Technorati founder Dave Sifry has launched a new website that help people to make customized travel plans. for more then 30,000 travel destinations.
[http://readerszone.com/internet/offbeatguides.html]
Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Officially Launches OffBeatGuides.com: DIY Guidebooks On the Go TechCrunch | November 12, 2008
Technorati founder Dave Sifry found himself far from home - Dalian, China, to be exact, a city of 7 million near Shenyang. While hunting for guidebooks, he thumbed through multiple volumes and found plenty on the terracotta warriors and Beijing but nothing about Dalian.
[http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/12/technorati-founder-dave-sifry-launches-offbeatguidescom-diy-guidebooks-on-the-go/]
Offbeat Guides Launches On-Demand, Personalized Travel Books Marketing Shift | November 3, 2008
From fast food menus to iPods , we've become a society obsessed with customization. Dave Sifry, the founder and former CEO of Technorati, obviously kept that in mind with the first public beta product of Offbeat Guides: On-Demand, Personalized Travel Books.
[http://www.marketingshift.com/2008/11/offbeat-travel-guide-keeps-oncourse.cfm]
Make your own customized travel book with Offbeat Guides Technospot | October 8, 2008
Offbeat Guides is an online service for planning your travel to almost any where in world and it takes care of allmost everything. Right from where You can stay , hotel selection and places you can visit.
[http://www.technospot.net/blogs/make-your-own-customized-travel-book-with-offbeat-guides/#comment-784]
Failing Banks Threaten Silicon Valley Startups CBS 5 | September 25, 2008
David Sifry's newest venture called Offbeat Guides combines the internet with traditional publishing. Six employees help create customized travel guides. He says, "I've been keeping the team really small. You need to keep your burn rate really low and your focus on delighting your customers."
[http://cbs5.com/consumer/internet.startup.bust.2.825858.html]
OffbeatGuides.com Travel Guide Review MarketingShift | September 3, 2008
Once you've finished answering the 5 questions, which takes 2 - 4 minutes tops, then you're presented with an outline of the customized travel guide created specifically for you. You can click on each of the chapters and get a preview of the information contained in it and now you can even add your own chapter...
[http://www.marketingshift.com/2008/9/offbeatguides-travel-planner-review.cfm]
Personalized books: The Future of Publishing Business Standard | August 21, 2008
My only interest was Sapporo in Northern Japan. And in under 10 minutes, I had myself a personalised travel guide to Sapporo. One, someone else does the searching for you, saving you time and two, all the information is neatly packaged into a small book making it easy for you to carry along.
[http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=332040]
Former Technorati Master to Start Guidebook Series Gadling | June 5, 2008
Ever used Technorati? It's a slick little blog searcher that scours over 100 million blogs for articles like the stuff you read here on Gadling. It was founded by a fella named Dave Sifry and is a highly awarded web site and search engine.
[ http://www.gadling.com/2008/06/05/former-technorati-master-to-start-guidebook-series]
The technological future of the travel guide The Guardian | June 4, 2008
Don't panic - the age of the electronically customised travel book is almost upon us, courtesy of the innovator who brought us Technorati. While some guides can be up to two years old, Offbeat aims to find the most contemporary content available,
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/jun/04/thetechnologicalfutureofth]
New Offbeat Guides LA Times | June 2, 2008
I can’t wait to check out Offbeat Guides, a travel guidebook venture started by Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati. According to their blog, Offbeat Guides promises to be just what the traveler needs — an up-to-the-minute personalized guidebook in PDF or print version.
[http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/new-offbeat-guides-w-1973/]
Offbeat Guides: Lonely Planet 2.0 rev2.org | June 2, 2008
Offbeat Guides is basically a super simple and awesome way to personalize a travel guide for your destination — all customized to your name and dates and with all the information you’ll ever need — and have it delivered to you in print or digitally through PDF. Does it replace the Lonely Planet? You bet.
[http://www.rev2.org/2008/06/02/offbeat-guides-lonely-planet-20/]
Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Takes On Travel Guide Industry TechCrunch | June 1, 2008
Technorati founder Dave Sifry, who left the company a little over a year ago, is launching a new company called Offbeat Guides this morning into private beta. Sifry’s blog post on the launch is here.
[http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/01/technorati-founder-dave-sifry-takes-on-travel-guide-industry/]
Sites we can't live without Time | June 1, 2008
By Annita Hamilton — A new print-it-yourself travel guide called Offbeat Guides (still in beta as of June 2008) culls information from the site to create custom travel guides tailored to the exact dates of your trip. Now that's neat.
[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1812202_1812206,00.html]
Sifry stuff: Offbeat Guides hits private beta Susan Mernit | June 1, 2008
So, there's something great about being about to print a custom travel guide, focused on what you want to know, for a place you are headed. Having both a digital copy and a printed copy is cool, useful, disruptive--it diminishes the importance of the airline aggregator and the publishing business as middlemen, as well.
[http://www.susanmernit.com/blog/2008/06/sifry-stuff-offbeat-guides-hit.html]
Offbeat Guides: Build your own travel books Webware | June 1, 2008
David Sifry, founder and former CEO of Technorati, has apparently had enough of new media and of blogs. His new venture is attacking a traditional business: printed travel guides.
[http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9956255-2.html]
Walking around Paris with Dave Sifry Scobelizer | June 1, 2008
I was sworn to secrecy about what we were doing in Paris last December. You thought I was there to attend and speak at the LeWeb conference. I was. But we also were testing out Dave Sifry’s new business idea, which he now calls Offbeat Guides.
[http://scobleizer.com/2008/06/01/walking-around-paris-with-dave-sifry/]
Offbeat Startup: Custom Travel Books from Dave Sifry We Media | November, 3 2008
This could be a game changer for book publishing. A new company called Offbeat Guides produces personalized travel books based on your itinerary and travel details. It was founded by Dave Sifry, a serial entrepreneur (and friend) from San Francisco who previously led Technorati and LinuxCare.
[http://wemedia.com/2008/11/03/offbeat-startup-custom-travel-books-from-dave-sifry/]