Tourist Eye throws a rope to Nextstop refugees, before Facebook shuts it down
Seeing an opportunity, Tourist Eye, a similar social travel guides service for web and mobile, is launching a campaign for displaced Nextstop refugees who want something more than a PDF. Remember Jimdo’s lifeboat for Geocities orphans? Well, Tourist Eye is throwing out a rope to the Nextstop community so that they can migrate their full profiles and data to the new service, without losing anything in the process.
If they can get word out and make a dent, it’s a smart move to bank on this homeless community. What’s not clear is exactly how Nextstop, ahem, Facebook will take it. They originally suggested that they would release the content under a Creative Commons license, but ultimately that’s not the case:
Unfortunately, we won’t be releasing the nextstop content under a Creative Commons license as we had originally announced. We haven’t been able to find a way to reliably associate the nextstop recommendations and guides with physical places they refer to that both honors our commitments to Google for using their API and also provides a useful export for other developers. We’ve been working with the team at Google to try to resolve this, and will revisit a Creative Commons export if a workable solution is found.