Archive | April, 2008

30 April 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Chris Anderson's Free & the Booking Engine

I’ve been a huge fan for Chris Anderson for a long time. It seemed to me that the “Long Tail” completely supported my own motivation behind building Rezgo, a web based booking engine that would put inventory and distribution control into the hands of the individual supplier. Now with his latest article in Wired magazine [...]

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15 April 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Engaging Bloggers – PR dos and don'ts

Like many of my T-List colleagues I have begun to see my inbox grow steadily with emails from PR firms inviting me to interview Internet entrepreneurs or to check out the latest and greatest new website.  Let me clarify that, to me, there is no difference between these messages and the ones I get for [...]

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14 April 2008 ~ 5 Comments

User Travel Guides vs. Professional Travel Guides

User Travel Guides vs. Professional Travel Guides

Frankly I’ve always enjoyed travel guides especially the well written version by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, or Columbus Guides.  Since the growth in popularity of user generated sites like Wikitravel and World66 I’ve cast off the shackles of paper and gone digital for my guides preferring the advice and recommendations of average travelers.  The BBC [...]

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08 April 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Traditional Journalists Use Blogs for Story Ideas

Traditional Journalists Use Blogs for Story Ideas

One of the reasons why blogs are such a good idea and why I enjoy following blogs, especially those on the T-List, is because they are a great source of knowledge.  At ITB Berlin in March a number of T-List bloggers, including myself, sat on an expert panel and debated the role of blogs versus [...]

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08 April 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Fake Social Media

Fake Social Media

Thanks to Joe Buhler for writing his post about the post by Peg Davis titled “Keeping it real… fake: Social Media “don’t”s”. The timing of this post coincides nicely with the announcement that flogging is now illegal in the EU. Peg’s post discusses how to garner favour with the elusive Gen Y and how companies [...]

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03 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

So what would a Google + Expedia Look Like?

So what would a Google + Expedia Look Like?

I realize I’m a day behind most of my blogging colleagues on commenting on the “Google eyeing Expedia” rumour that resulted in a subsequent rise in Expedia’s share price. For the most part I’m not a big fan of rumours, but it did get me thinking about what such a beast would look like. In [...]

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