This is the best list I’ve seen so far on this topic
JEB @ July 16, 2008 #
it’s called 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing by Chris Brogan. You can’t go wrong trying to understand the subject and start using at least some, if not all, of these suggestions.
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might be a future reality according to this Real Time column in WSJ.com by Jason Fry. He raises a number of interesting points that will indeed make this a general reality as it is already for a fast increasing number of people who can easily be found on the web today. In the networked world [...]
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
This quote somehow reminds me how far we still are from making the travel planning - researching and buying process on the web truly an easy and enjoyable experience based on the technology understanding and correctly interpreting customer needs and preferences. It’s [...]
This is a great video by Nova Spivack of Radar Networks on this topic still often misunderstood. I agree with his definition of the terms web 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0 being about time periods in the development of the web. We’re now just about at the end of the second decade (2.0) and [...]
could be the subject line for this study quoted in Micro Persuasion stating that One Billion Dollars in Internet Advertising is Wasted by display ads visible to about 70% of web users but only seen by about 25% because the ads are displayed “below the fold” requiring people to scroll down a web [...]
Coming soon: superfast internet reports the Times Online in this eye opening article. It’s further proof that “we ain’t seen nothing yet” when it comes to the web and once the grid is accessible to all users the web experience will move to a whole other level from what we’re used to today. It’s too [...]
This is a great presentation of some of the key developments that have already arrived or are on the horizon. It’s clear that they will have an impact on the online travel industry, with search being one area in particular where innovation will happen based on what’s called the semantic, or intelligent web. Another area [...]
Yahoo Search Casts Lots with Semantic Web Technology
JEB @ March 14, 2008 #
reports MarketingVOX. This is further proof of improved search becoming a reality in the not too distant future and here’s a quote relevant to travel
For example, instead of searching for hotels in Miami and having to sift through results that include hotels, travel vendors and hotel deals, one could query for Miami hotels that allow [...]
Just came across this video on the Minding the Planet blog that explains in easy to understand terms what’s happening on the web.
This will certainly have an effect on how travel is being researched, planned and booked in the not too distant future.
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Tags: intelligentweb, semantic web
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Radar Networks’ Twine: Semantic Web meets information overload
JEB @ October 19, 2007 #
Here’s a more detailed description of what Twine is about and it seems to me an improvement over what we’ve seen so far in social networking tools.
Nova Spivack thinks it’s high time we make computers smart enough to manage the ocean of scattered information our digital lives create.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco [...]