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T. Sheridan wrote a poem titled, “The More We Learn The Less We Know For Sure.” This thought has many takes, and my take is – the more we know, we discover how little we know. I am convinced that one can merrily tailgate knowledge and live ones life as a student and remain young at mind through his/her time […]
Read moreGames are no longer a preserve of kids. They are played more by young adults than by kids these days. We have broken world or parts of the world 16 times on one page. The whole idea behind us breaking it up is you being able to build it back together. Maps are fun, and double the fun when jumbled […]
Read moreAre you here with a solution or are you part of the problem? Every time we look at changing something in Mapsofworld or consider creating a new module, we ask ourselves this straight question. We are committed to being a team with the solution and we dare not become part of the problem, which our user is seeking an answer […]
Read moreWe need to review and map at least one million restaurants all over the world in Mapsofworld.com. So, it was important we laid down a benchmark to judge what goes in and what doesn’t. As step one, I started reviewing restaurants for Yelp. It was interesting. If you wish to write, you need to read. A few years down the […]
Read moreEveryone who is involved with websites and portals business talks about Comscore and Google Analytics and that also in a hush-hush manner. At Mapsofworld, we decided that we would always ensure that independent tools capture as much of Mapsofworld.com as is possible in an open environment. We have always allowed our real data to travel to anyone who steps out […]
Read moreTerms and terminologies would come, some would at some point get classified as jargon and some as cliches, but what matters is raison d’etre, why you should exist digitally beyond your own website? That is the fundamental point. Your website is a digital asset and so is your FB, Twitter, Instagram and so many other pages. Your each presence beyond your […]
Read moreMost websites repurpose, repackage and reprocess travel content that is floating around and easy-to-do, making the journey easier. However, this is not what Mapsofworld subscribes to. We decided that Mapsofworld should try to do as much of “been there done that” content for travel section as possible. “Been there done that” for a world site is easier said than done. […]
Read moreWe need search engines to reach to millions of surfers who are looking for information, right? Right. Let us take a pause here and ask ourselves – What do search engines need to get people to them? They need our websites, right? Right, but there are a few hundred qualifiers to that. For instance, they need relevant, always available, original, […]
Read moreSan Francisco is a special city for us. This city is an entry point for Mapsofworld.com. Actually, it was from this city that the journey and expansion of Mapsofworld in the US started in 2007. We went ahead and made neighboring San Jose our home and it kept on getting better and better from there. San Francisco wasn’t and isn’t […]
Read moreIf you share knowledge, it becomes a sort of responsibility for you to make sure that the knowledge you are sharing is having a positive impact. At Mapsofworld, it is all about enriching the user experience, and that got us to create a quiz module residing within the website. Since 2007, we have worked on various quiz formats and a […]
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