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Shermaine Lim Siew Ki (307645): Bluenity, an online social network for travellers, is a great way for people coming from different places to interact. It enables them to share travel tips which could be helpful for both business and leisure. This interactive community also allows people to meet up and thus create business opportunities which brings added value to the traveler social network. It fully utilises the essence of Web Host 2.0 in terms of networking, and allow participation from the community for feedbacks and reviews. Hoteliers and restaurant managers can use this website as a guide on their product and service performance.

Charlene (307674): Social Network also defines a connection of people in an organization or society. It is a link between every individual in a society which are then linked to ideas generated among them, friendship, visions, values and many other. In the term of social network, there are two parts that determines the relation among human beings. They are; nodes and ties. Nodes is an individual within a network, whereas, ties is what lays in between the community and the individual such as the relationship, common liking, interest and etc.

This Bluenity website helps to connect people together from different countries with the same interests. It allows users to give travel tips on the website with hotel reviews or even destination reviews. This is launched by an airline which shows the main aim of the website which is to attract as many international travel tips as possible. They had made the website to be more friendly by having languages and making use of flash to enhance the image of the website.

Slyvia (307672): Bluenity is a french social network (.fr) that allows social interaction. It is different from others web 2.0 because it allows the user to plan their travels and trip and also allow them to make reservation of bus ticket or accomodation.

With the help of web2.0, customers get to understand the whole picture while they are planning their trip using Bluenity. This web has been a favorite for frequent flyers because it helps them to get prepare having other people’s experiences as the tips such as TRIP ATTITUDE and their traveler profile. - 307673

Nowadays to collect informationinfomation for travel is very important. This is useful website for tarvellers as an online socail network website. Through this website travllers can exchage their travel's tip and exprience and make travel plan together. With this website travellesr can prepare their travel more perfect.

Besides Bluenity there is of course a huge amout of other social network sides, some of them also used for hospitality related purposes.
http://www.travbuddy.com/ is an example for one of this sites.
 * **Discover** other people who will be in same places you are traveling to.
 * **Meet & interact** with people who share your passion for travel.
 * **Join groups** and form communities with people who share your interests.



Other examples are http://www.travellerspoint.com/ and http://www.wayn.com both these sites can be used for exchanging information, experiences and pictures all related to holidays and travell. (306989)