What makes a Blog? A Summary of the Blogger Summit @ PhoCusWright

The blogger summit at The 2007 PhoCusWright Conference in Orlando, Florida was a huge success, at least in my opinion. The room was filled to capacity with approximately sixteen delegates around the tables and another twenty or so sitting in chairs and on counter tops around the room. The discussion was lively and at one point trailed off topic, but was quickly brought back to subject. Here are some points that were discussed during the summit and proved to be salient. I opened by pointing out that blog posts illicit conversations where as articles are a monologues. Although this is changing... Read more »

FlightCentre buys Liberty Travel and Adds 193 more stores

I realize this isn’t really technology related, but this news item came to me directly from Sean Sutherland, VP of E-Commerce at FlightCentre. By purchasing Liberty Travel, FlightCentre has just made the U.S. it’s largest market outside of Australia. This brings a tremendous amount of brand recognition for FlightCentre in the U.S. and also increases the profile of the flightcentre.com website in North America. Looking forward we see the baby boomers, who are also predominantly non-web users, retiring and becoming more mobile. This generation of wealthy people will be looking for... Read more »