Everything about Capitancook Com - The Free Travel Guide totally explained
World66 was a
Dutch company which embraced the
open content idea and tried to transform it into a profitable business. It is now owned by El Segundo, California, based
Internet Brands, Inc which acquired it in
April 2006.
History
The site was founded in
1999 by
Richard Osinga and
Douwe Osinga as Osinga.com, but the name was changed to World66 in the same year and they were soon joined by Michael Manikowski. On
November 29 2003, it expanded by absorbing the travel-related
CapitanCook wiki.
Internet Brands announced their acquisition of World66 on
April 20,
2006.
Technology
World66 uses
wiki-like software based on the
Zope application server, which allows everyone to add or edit contents.
The site claims more than 80,000 travel related articles covering about 10,000 destinations around the world and all of them are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Licence.
Issues
In
2004, World66 relicensed all content to an open license first a
GNU FDL license and consequently to CC by-sa 1.0 - those who had contributed under GNU FDL license were informed of the change by e-mail and had the possibility to withdraw contributions.
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