What kind of activity are the niche-themed products Bookchase and San Marco?
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Bookchase Bookchase is a board game published by Art Meets Matter. Players compete to acquire six small books for their bookshelf. They do this by partly by answering multiple-choice questions, partly by visiting special spaces on the board: The Bookshop, The Book Corner, The Library and also by chance events triggered by the turn of an Award or Sentence card.
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San Marco (board game) San Marco is a 2001 designer board game by Alan R. Moon and Aaron Weissblum. The game is set in Venice, and the title comes from the name of one of the city's districts.
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Sasquatch Books Sasquatch Books is a Seattle-based book publishing company that was founded in 1986. Its books are about the western United States and Canada and cover topics such as nature, travel, gardening, entertainment, sports, food and wine.
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Niche real estate A niche is a specialized sector of the property market. Examples include income property, garden real estate, condos, equestrian property, vacation property, farm property, golf property, golf course redevelopment, waterfront homes, beach houses and luxury homes. These are often categories in which potential buyers think about the property they seek. They are also used by real estate marketing companies to reach these types of buyer. In this context a niche describes a specific segment of home buyers and sellers, classified by ethnicity, nationality or socio-economic group (e.g. social housing or luxury real estate).
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Hipcamp Hipcamp is an online travel service designed to help people discover and book camping experiences. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 2013 by Alyssa Ravasio and cofounder Eric Bach joined the team later that year. Hipcamp enables users to search for available campsites based on location, natural landscape, activities offered, and amenities. Since its launch, the company has worked toward national expansion and creating an engaged community of campers.
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Benchmarking (geolocating) Benchmarking (also known as benchmark hunting) is a hobby activity in which participants find benchmarks (also known as survey markers or "geodetic control points"). Technically, the term "bench mark" is used only to refer to survey markers that designate a certain elevation, but hobbyists often use the term benchmarks to include triangulation stations or reference marks. They typically then log their finds online. Like geocaching, the activity has become popular since about 1995, propelled by the availability of on-line data on the location of survey marks (with directions for finding them) and by the rise of hobbyist-oriented websites.
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Tablo Publishing Tablo Publishing is a social self-publishing platform that allows authors to write books than can then be discovered by a large community of readers. The platform, which is commonly likened to social platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud, is used by authors who want to publish their work and build a following, as well as readers who want to explore and follow emerging authors and books across all genres. Tablo's author community spans more than 130 countries.
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Bi-Rite Market Bi-Rite Market is a grocery store in San Francisco, California, owned and operated by chef Sam Mogannam, who had previously worked at Jardinière in the city. He and his brother Raphael took over the grocery store from his family in 1997, and began to sell prepared foods using locally grown produce, which he advocates. Mogannam spoke at TEDxPresidio 2012 on reinventing capitalism. "Fast Company" profiled him as one of the 100 most creative people in business for 2012. The market runs a non-profit community food education project, 18 Reasons. The store is a pioneer in the new farm-to-grocery store movement, and has published a book, "Eat Good Food" (Ten Speed Press). Whole Foods Market has sent staff to the store to adopt practices from there. The store opened a second location, in the Divisadero Street Commercial District, in the Western Addition neighborhood, in 2013.
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Marco Polo Park Marco Polo Park (AKA Passport to Fun World) was a theme park located just west of Interstate 95 between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach near Bunnell, at Exit 278 in Flagler County, Florida on the site of the current Plantation Bay Golf and County Club community. The park's theme was based on Marco Polo's legendary travels through Europe and the Far East. The brochure provided at the park's entrance gave this description: "Like Marco Polo himself, you will be wonderstruck at the authentic Oriental splendor of your personal voyage of discovery as you journey into the exotic four worlds of the Far East, Turkey, India, China, Japan and beautiful Venice, your port of embarkation." The park featured rides, puppet shows, multimedia shows, and other attractions.
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Cityblis Cityblis is an interactive, multi-platform social eCommerce website that allows consumers to shop and interact with friends, store owners and other consumers. The site is a combination of personalized web stores and an online mall. Launched in April 2012, the international platform was developed for small businesses to reach out to new markets around the world through a community based infrastructure. The current headquarters are in New York City with satellite offices in Sweden and Australia.
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Talmon Marco Talmon Marco is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and businessman, best known as the CEO and founder of Viber - a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging VoIP application for smartphones with over 400 million users and Juno - a ride sharing service.
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Jerry Kaplan Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and serial entrepreneur. He is best known as a pioneer in the field of pen computing and tablet computers. He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC. Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay. He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and author of the best-selling book "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure." He has been featured in major news publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book "Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Additional companies he has co-founded include artificial intelligence company Teknowledge, Inc. and social game website Winster.com. Kaplan is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Paperchase Paperchase is an international chain of stationery stores which were established in the United Kingdom but has since expanded into Europe, the USA and United Arab Emirates. As well as stand alone stores, in the UK there are concessions in selected Selfridges and House of Fraser stores.
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OR Books OR Books is a New York-based independent publishing house founded by two veterans of the publishing industry, John Oakes and Colin Robinson, in 2009. The company, a "digital upstart", claims to offer a revolutionary approach to publishing by printing on demand, selling directly to the customer, and focusing on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet. OR generally does not sell its books through stores or wholesalers: it "sells directly to customers who order from the OR Books website, eliminating unsold inventory, doing away with deep discounts to retailers, and sharing more of the profit with authors. Customers may order print copies or digital versions; OR Books prints and delivers copies only when they are ordered."
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Marco Island Historical Museum Marco Island Historical Museum is a history museum on Marco Island, Florida, Collier County, Florida. It is operated by the Marco Island Historical Society and is part of the Collier County Museum System. Its exhibitions include information on the Calusa Indians and the history of development on Marco Island.
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Luxify Luxify is a Hong Kong-based company, providing an online marketplace for new, vintage and pre-owned luxury goods. The company manages an online marketplace website in which members buy and sell a variety of luxury goods. It was Hong Kong's first online marketplace to buy and sell luxury goods The site has over 15 categories, including real estate, watches, jewelry, luxury cars, yachts, aircraft, luxury handbags, art, collectibles, furniture, antiques and fine wines & spirits. As of March 2016, the website had over 22,000 listings from luxury dealers from all over the world, making a US$18.6 billion marketplace. Luxify also has offices in Singapore and London and local partners in Shanghai and Jakarta.
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San Polo San Polo is the smallest of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the ninth century, when it and San Marco formed part of the Realtine Islands. The sestiere is named for the Church of San Polo.
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Prospect Park Books Prospect Park Books is a Los Angeles-based independent publisher. Its titles are distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, a member of the Ingram Content Group. It is a member of the American Association of Publishers, Publishers Association of the West, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
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Pearltrees Pearltrees refers to itself as "a place for your interests". Functionally the product is a visual and collaborative curation tool that allows users to organize, explore and share any URL they find online as well as to upload personal photos, files and notes. The product features a unique visual interface that allows users to drag and organize collected URLs, and other digital objects. that themselves can be further organized into collections and sub-collections, (URLs). Users of the product can also engage in social/collaborative curation using a feature called "Pearltrees Teams".
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Shopcade Shopcade is a social shopping application. A dual platform offering, the web and mobile-based app offers a daily fashion fix of top trends and deals to 16- to 25-year-old fashion conscious users globally, with primary markets in the UK and America.
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Bark (company) Bark is a web-based services marketplace founded in 2012 by British entrepreneurs Andrew Michael and Kai Feller, and headquartered in London. Bark has over 20m users worldwide.
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Shutterfly Shutterfly is an American Internet-based image publishing service based in Redwood City, California. Shutterfly's flagship product is its photo book line. The company was founded in 1999 and is currently led by Christopher North. The company went public in 2006. The customer base is heavily skewed toward women, who accounted for 80% of customers as reported in 2013.