Jan 13 2011
Web/Tech
May 10 2010
Video: The secret of Apple’s success – and not only theirs!
This is a brilliant video, a must view in my opinion and not because it’s about Apple (although I’m an admitted Fanboy!) but about much more than that. The full post is on CNN Money
May 6 2010
Apple iTravel: Major headwinds for OTAs, more options for hotel marketers
This guest post is an editorial in Hotelmarketing.com re-published here: Apple filed a patent this month for a future iPhone app called iTravel that like the Google/ITA rumors has the potential to become a game changer for the travel industry, or how Steve Jobs would put it “revolutionize travel.” By Markus Busch The folks at [...]
Dec 19 2008
CNN covers Web 3.0
in this article Making sense of the ‘semantic Web’ and presents a very innovative example by a German company of the kind of tools we will see being introduced over the coming years. The impact will be felt across all industries including travel. The huge amount of data about travel produced by so many sources [...]
Dec 17 2008
Here’s an example of what’s coming next!
as John Markoff reports in this article Slipstream – A Software Secretary That Takes Charge on NYTimes.com about web based intelligent assistants. The company mentioned – Rearden Commerce – is a leader in providing this kind of advanced services mostly to business travelers today that we will see more of in future and that will [...]
Dec 17 2008
Web 2.0 enters the mainstream
OK, web 2.0 is now officially part of the mainstream, as the Wall Street Journal reveals The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World! So, the CMOs in companies of all sizes will now embrace social media, social networks, blogs etc. and know how to effectively deal with all things 2.0? Not so fast, [...]
Dec 11 2008
Not exactly a ringing endorsement
People don’t trust company blogs. What you should do about it reads the headline of post in Groundswell, based on a survey Forrester conducted in Q2 this year with over 5000 people that according to their note, are as representative as possible of the US online adult population. Company blogs came in last with only [...]
Dec 3 2008
So, the long tail is dead….!
it seems, reading that Anderson downgrades Long Tail to Chocolate Teapot status according to Andrew Orlowski writing in The Register. Orlowski has written about this topic in previous articles with the provocative titles Chopping the Long Tail down to size and The Long Fail: Web 2.0′s faith meets the facts Now, that should stimulate a [...]
Dec 1 2008
More from PhoCusWright
During the recent conference I had the opportunity to talk to some companies that were not presenting at the Travel Innovation Summit or on Center Stage but offer innovative solutions that have already, or will in future, appear on our radar screens: Is a site that offers a trip planning tool based on personal preferences. [...]
Jul 14 2008
Everyone’s personal web page a must?
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 [...]
