They enable a tourist to actively share mementos, comments, reviews and, most importantly, rate their overall travel experience.
A veterans' group had tracked me down and wanted to share mementoes.
As coalition special forces began the ground war in Afghanistan, Uzbek veterans of the last foreign incursion into the same nation gathered during the weekend and shared their mementos with an intensity they said they have not felt since their war ended in 1989.
He encouraged customers to hold on to their receipts as mementos and shared his fears of finding a job in a sluggish economy, even though his résumé includes bartending stints at BLT Steak, BLT Prime and the River Cafe.
Ellsworth's image became an emblem of the first collective loss of the war, which created an audience (and market) for his carte de visite as a memento of shared grief.
He proceeded to tell me of the various Mommy mementos that were shared, including his own, which he said he proudly modeled.
Gutelzon says the key to Keepy's conversion rate is that the app feels more like a shared box full of family mementos than another social network you have to sign up for.
And she did get her share of mementos, like M&M's with her photo on them.
Day after day, volunteers arrived wearing parts of their World War II uniform or bringing mementos to share with the man whose view of reality and dry sense of humor helped get them through the war.
