What is Canogle?
Canogle is a social media project built around sightseeing for locals and tourists, allowing writers to create and contribute entertaining and informative articles about historical, cultural or other interesting sights for users to appreciate what’s around them, whether they are home or away. Our goal is to make sightseeing popular and cool for everyone.
 

Why use Canogle?
If you are a local who wants to know what is interesting or historical around you, or if you are a tourist who wants to make the most of your trip in an easy and entertaining way, then Canogle is for you. If you are an amateur or professional writer who is knowledgeable about a historic or interesting place that you have visited, then Canogle is the platform to use.
 
Benefits to writers:
·         Share your passion and knowledge with others whether it is history, architecture, culture or just fun facts.
·         Join a community that shares your interests.
·         Provide links to expose your work such as websites, blogs, books or other published material.

Benefits to users:
·         Locals can discover interesting places around them.
·         Tourists can make the most of their trips without researching before they leave.
·         A free service that is fun, entertaining, informative and easy to use.

 
Vision:
Canogle’s vision is to transform the sightseeing experience from one that is a less than memorable tourist activity to an experience shared by tourists and locals alike; an entertaining, informative and viable way to spend time. 

  
Mission:
Canogle’s mission is to promote exploring and appreciating historical, cultural, and architectural sites in an entertaining manner by way of a web and mobile-based platform allowing users to search, comment and rate content created by passionate and knowledgeable local writers.
 

How Canogle started:
Arthur and his wife Jess were honeymooning in Maui in 2004. On a drive from Lahaina to a resort in Kilhea, Arthur was at the wheel, while Jess was continuously fumbling with a map trying to note interesting sights along the way hoping they were headed in the right direction. Jess was fuming because she was paying attention to the cumbersome map and completely missing the beautiful sites. She griped, “Somebody should make something that you can play in your car that tells you about the sights, so that you know what you are driving by.” 

Arthur smiled, “Sure dear, and it should be GPS activated, so the descriptions can play automatically based on where you are.”  
The idea has evolved into providing a platform for users to create and share their knowledge and perspectives on interesting sights so that whether you are in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris or Rome (or Hawaii) you can fully experience what’s around you.  Arthur and Jess are planning a round-the-world trip with their daughters in 2016, and would like to use Canogle in every city they visit.
 
What Canogle means:
The name is derived from “ogle” which means to look or stare; so can-ogle loosely means “can look or stare”.
 

The Plan:
There are two phases of the project. The first phase focuses on getting the best possible content from writers, editors and reviewers who will contribute, comment and rate content.    The second phase focuses on exposing the site to the end users who will be primarily searching and using the content. The second phase includes extending the use of the website to portable devices like the Apple iPhone® and Blackberry®.