Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: Members of a traveler's social network or “friends” are identified by a social recommendation service. The identified friends may possess knowledge regarding travel information of interest to the traveler. The identification may be based on locations of the friends and/or information of interest, selection criteria provided by the traveler, clickstream data for the friends, the relationship between the friends and the traveler, etc. The social recommendation service may additionally provide the traveler with identifying information enabling the user to communicate with the identified friend(s).

Abstract: Technology for creating slideshows is described. In various embodiments, the technology receives from a first client computing device, a request to create a slideshow; receives from the first client computing device an indication of a location of two or more content elements; retrieves from the indicated location the two or more content elements; identifies geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements; creates a slideshow containing the retrieved two or more content elements and at least one transition; and transmits a pointer to the created slideshow.