Airbnb

Airbnb

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About

Airbnb is an online marketplace where users can rent, rate and review housing properties for short-term lodging in locations worldwide.

Online History

In October 2007, entrepreneurs Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia initially came up with the concept of the Airbnb site during a conference held by the Industrial Designers Society of America. In February 2008, technical architect Nathan Blecharczyk joined the team as a third co-founder. On August 11th, the site Airbedandbreakfast.com was launched, which initially focused on providing accommodations near large-scale events. As a promotion for the site, special edition presidential candidate breakfast cereals were sold for $40 each, raising the company more than $30,000.


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In January 2009, the founders were invited to join the Y Combinator's incubator for three months of training and given a $20,000 investment. In March, the site domain was shortened to Airbnb.com and was expanded to provide accommodations for a wide variety of properties. In November 2010, the site raised $7.2 million in Series A funding. By February 2011, one million listings were booked on the site. In May, the German competitor site Accoleo was acquired by Airbnb, launching the company's first international office.

On July 16th, 2014, Airbnb released a new logo through its blog.[11] In addition it released a program called Create Airbnb[12] which allows users to add their own colors and add-ons to the logo.


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On the same day the Tumblr blog airbnblogo[15], which features the logo altered in humorous ways, was created. In the following days several websites posted lists poking fun at the new logo including Buzzfeed's[14] "18 Things That Look Like The New Airbnb Logo," which suggests it looks like a vagina and ABC News'[16] "6 Things Airbnb's New Logo Looks Like" which rounded up altered logos from Twitter.


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On July 17th, at a party at Verdi Club[17] in San Francisco, California, Airbnb's chief technology officer Nathan Blecharczyk defended the logo, saying:

"“It’s just like: Go ahead, laugh all you want, guys. We wouldn’t want to design a logo that caters to the lowest common denominator. This was a yearlong undertaking for dozens of people, it’s something meaningful, and no one pauses to really understand that.”

Features

Airbnb users create profiles as either a "host" or a "guest" using official government issued identification. Accounts have the ability to place properties up for rental, post reviews, ratings and establish social connections with other users.


arbb here are you going? BROWSE SIGN UP LOG IN HELP ▼ LIST YOUR SPACE Find a place to stay. ent from people in over 34,000 cities and 192 countries. Where do you want to go? Check in heck out E 1 Guest ▼ Search Neighborhood Guides Not sure where to stay? We've created neighborhood guides for cities all around the world. New New York Rio de Janeiro

Highlights

You're Gonna Die Here

On May 13th, 2014, the single topic blog "You're Gonna Die Here" was launched on Tumblr,[10] which highlights unsettling and disturbing photographs from Airbnb listings. The same day, several examples from the blog were highlighted on Gawker.[7]


Airbnb.cóm The Spiritual Dimension From the host: “This is not a cult. We promise ! JOIN US.” Airbnb.com "Don 't worry, we won 't murder you... BUT THE GHOSTS WILL." MAY. 13 s014 GHOST AIRBNBHAUNTED CABIN CREEPY RENTAL 16 NOTES Airbnb.com The real captions says « To be clear, we do not have a room to stay in, just a float tank for 1 to 3 hour rental.” NOTE: It is not known if the poltergeist that lives inside the tank is a friendly one. RENTER BEWARE. Airbnb.com The perfect place to relax and do that heroin you ve been meaning to do. HOTEL Airbnb.com At least it's secure... This listing is described as being "safe” over 15 times. Nothing makes me feel safer than being told constantly "YOU ARE SAFE I PROMISE”. Airbnb.com This hut is perfect for when you want to do some r----- but don 't want the whole campsite to see.

Controversies

Data Subpoena

In October 2013, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a subpoena to Airbnb demanding data for 225,000 New Yorkers registered on the site as part of an investigation into residents illegal renting properties in the state. On May 13th, 2014, the State Supreme Court struck down the subpoena for being overly broad.[8]

Orgy Scandal

On March 15th, 2014, comedian Ari Teman published an open letter to Airbnb titled "Dear Airbnb, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest" on his Tumblr[1] blog, which explained how he discovered that a man named David had organized an orgy at his apartment after renting it on Airbnb. After becoming suspicious about the renter, Teman searched the provided phone number on Google and found a tweet advertising a "freak fest" at his apartment building. In the coming days, the story was reported on by several news sites, including Gawker,[2] The Huffington Post,[3] New York Post,[4] The Daily Mail[5] and Time.[6]


TWINN Follow @TWINN GREEN TONIGHT MANHATTAN XXX FREAK FEST 1 7th AVE 10pm- 4am $20 b4 1am $25 after...TWINN instagram.com/p/lidYRbHAci/ tiNE わReply 다 Retweet * Favorite More RETWEET FAVORITES 1 4 5:39 PM-14 Mar 2014

Traffic

As of May 2014, Airbnb.com has a global rank of 1,418 and a United States rank of 581 on the traffic analytics site Alexa.[9]

Search Interest

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