Press coverage

On the BBC program 'Click', broadcast on the 7th November, Kate Russell gives her opinion on using Wigadoo to organise big nights out with friends and family.

Kate says:

Wigadoo appears in Tuesday the 7th of October's print edition of the freesheet thelondonpaper in the excellent, taking off deals and news column.

Titled 'Mates Rates', the article talks about how Wigadoo readresses the tendancy of your best mate to 'let' you pay for everything when travelling with friends.

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Where Look's experts answer reader's questions.

In October's issue money expert Adele Jones recommends Kelly from Bristol to use Wigadoo to organise a holiday with all her mates that she can't afford to put all on her card.

You have no worries now Kelly and we hope you have a great time wherever you go!

The real reason you’re in debt... and how to get out of it.

The Mirror has good advice for these difficult financial times and included in their feature is this advice:

"For concert tickets or trips for a group of friends, try a site called www.wigadoo.com where you can invite friends to pay in and then pay for the event with a virtual credit card."

Read Wigadoo's elevator pitch in The Guardian Media PDA blog, posted by Jemima Kiss on 17th September 2008.

Dominic King of BBC Radio Kent gave Wigadoo a recommendation on his show on the 29th August. Read details of Wigadoo on Dominic's noticeboard.

"So easy to use..." Dominic says. We couldn't agree more!

Check out the money saving tips in The students’ guide to avoid a £30k degree of debt feature in The Daily Mirror on Thursday 28th August.

Very good advice indeed, we think.

To bring you a great competition - a chance to win £500 for your next group event with your friends. You can use it to pay for whatever you want to do, trip to a theme park, weekend away, a group holiday, group night out - whatever takes your fancy! Why not enter now? Your friends will love you for it!

Wigadoo takes the hassle out of travel is the headline of this article.

The travel magazine . net has featured out press release in an article titled New site encourages Get-Togethers , Wigadoo.com facilitates group activities.

Little Nomads is a blog for families with kids who love to travel. They recommend our vote tool to help make all those decisions about where to stay , or when to go - here's what they said about Wigadoo.

Here's the article about Wigadoo in Springwise.

Real business interviewed me earlier today , here's the feature they wrote about Wigadoo following our interview.

If any of you are flying Easyjet this August do have a look in their business section where they have a feature on creative businesses who are providing clever travel solutions to make your life easier. Here's a link to the online version of the article.

We were lucky enough to pitch at the demo pitch which was part of the Techcrunch Pitch event last week, hosted and organised by Mike Butcher of Techcrunch. Here's John's 30 second pitch and Techcrunch's review of the event. Great event! We enjoyed it a lot!

Have a look at the review of the Wigadoo website on the Killer Start Ups website.

Hope you noticed our mention in Saturday 12th July's Daily Telegraph . Wigadoo was nominated as the website of the day!

I like the stapline of this article - Wigadoo - Going dutch online! Less sure about being referred to as an internet hero though ;-/

Had a great chat with Ray Degg yesterday morning from Wythenshawe FM about our research findings and about the Wigadoo website. The interview was broadcast live yesterday morning on his Community focus show , if I can get a clip I will post it here. Thanks Ray, for the opportunity to talk about how we think Wigadoo can help people do more stuff together.

The launch of Wigadoo was also announced in this week's edition of PR Week and Brand Republic. Here's a link to the Brand Republic article.

Here is an interesting article in the Telegraph called 'Facebook and MySpace generation cannot form relationships' that has some insights from the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists that supports our Wigadoo research results and conclusions from last week. It talks about the online / facebook generation and how they have a distorted view of friendships and their own identity that results from having more online interaction and less face to face interaction with friends. Quite worrying really. We hope that people start focusing on how the internet can be used to make it easier to meet up face to face rather than as an alternative way to interact.

For those of you who pick up TNT Magazine hope you saw the article on Wigadoo in this week's edition talking about the benefits of using Wigadoo to organise your group trips.

We are also listed as Number 2 in the Times Online Top 10 Travel Websites to watch in July.
Have a look at their review of the Wigadoo website.

I was just interviewed for Time 107.5 Radio which will be broadcast this Saturday morning in their news bulletins between 8 and 12 - so do listen out.

The Good Web Guide gave us a 5 Star rating ! See the Review here.

Some coverage from Yahoo news India today , the article is titled "Brits ditching real-life pals for online socializing"

And here's coverage in the Metro, the article is on the home page today and is called 'Facebook overtakes socialising in the UK'

Financial Times article covered the story today - look out for it it's called "Friends disunited, web poll finds". I'll post a copy here as soon as I can!

The article in the Daily Express is truly hilarious -can't wait to post a copy up here it's called '91 years old and still as anti-social as ever ' (Beachcomber). All geeky statisticians will love it!

If you missed it, why not pick up a paper on your way home tonight!

This is the coverage of our consumer report in the Daily Mail on June 24th 2008.

We were covered on LBC news last night and GMTV this morning - will post the links as soon as I get them!

Here's a mention in the London Paper , the article is called "The internet is becoming the new pub as London professionals say they no longer have the time to see friends face-to-face"

Rather surprisingly a write up in the ThaiIndian News , titled "Brits ditching real-life pals for online socializing"

Comment about Wigadoo , the article is called the Top 10 travel websites to watch - May edition.

Here's coverage of the article in the Sun called 'Social Brits are mouse bound'

Here is a great article called 'No time for Friends' written by www.student123.com.

Thanks to Brett James for his detailed Review of the Wigadoo Website.
We are very happy with the score he gave us for the pre-launch Beta version of our site.

I was interviewed by the www.TimesOnline.co.uk for an article called 'What not to do at work social' , I hope it will amuse you ;-) My feeling about this topic, was that the main risk with work social events is that it is too easy to lull yourself into a false sense of security that you are out with your friends and so can really let your hair down. At Wigadoo we put a high value on the time that we get to spend with our close friends . There's nothing better than feeling that you are amongst good old friends , who know you inside out and not matter how you behave you know that they won't judge you because they love you for who you are (cheesy but true , don't you think?) And anyway , they've probably seen you do worse before! The risk with work dos is that you think you are in this lovely safe cocoon , that is socialising with your friends, especially the case if the 'free' booze has been flowing and before you know it you are acting the idiot and embarrassing yourself in front of your bosses and colleagues, and making yourself the focus of all the office gossip! Don't say you haven't been warned ;-)

Here is a link to Darren Cronian's article about 'Holiday money saving tips and spending advice' on June 16th 2008.