The rise of technology has made the devoted traveller feel part of a world community. This is reflected at www.travbuddy.com, which gives users MySpace-like profile pages in which they can post photos, blogs, Google-powered maps and reviews to describe the countries they have visited. Later travellers can add their comments.
If the behemoth-like BBC site inhabits one end of the web spectrum, then onebillionvisits.com surely inhabits the other. Proclaimed as “The World’s Biggest Countdown”, this is a single page with just a number on it; with every visit, the number gets one step closer to reaching ten fat zeros.