New Delta Safety Videos Break Through Frequent Flyers’ Filters I used to teach university marketing communications classes. In one of the early lectures we would discuss a human communications model. The model includes perceptual filters that we humans use to tune out most of the routine data coming in through our sense organs. These filters…
Big Name Facebook Pages that Oppose Relevance Filters are Wrong Businesses, non-profits and celebrities promote themselves on Facebook by setting up branded pages. Fans of these entities follow them by “liking” those pages. As a Facebook follower, you might think that by liking a page, you will see every update to it in your newsfeed.…
The man responsible for turning Microsoft Office into a perpetually winning franchise and delivering Windows 7 and 8 on time after the train wreck that was Longhorn/Vista is leaving Microsoft. This is a Good Thing. Sinofsky can build a plan and execute on it like no one else but he is also very inflexible. He…
Pauline Frommer, daughter of famous travel guide author Arthur and a well-known travel writer in her own right, recently published a provocative article that has been picked up by at least a few travel sites. Starting with comments made by Tony Tyler, CEO of the International Air Transport Association, she writes that hotels and airlines…
Contents Priceline to Acquire Kayak • Semantic Search • Expedia Destination Experiences • North Korean Super Hotel • Traverie • Allegiant Air • Travel Briefs • Travel Aspirations Priceline to Acquire Kayak for $1.8 Billion In an unexpected move that set the online travel industry buzzing, Kayak has agreed to be acquired by Priceline. This…
Contents Gadget Overdose • Microsoft Surface • Hurricane Sandy • Apple Shake-up • Global Consumer Analyses • Security • Build Your Own Servers • Tech Briefs • Just Two More Gadget Overdose: A Big Week for Tech Product Launches The past week has been a big one for product launches. As TechCrunch notes, it was…
Contents TravelTech Patent Stupidity • More Google Antitrust • Booking.com Reselling Canceled Rooms • WantMeGetMe • THack Singapore • Travel Agents Selling Air Again • Ancillary Fees • Mobile Travel Transformation • Toblerone and Guest Satisfaction • 22 Travel Briefs • 3 Travel Aspirations TravelTech Patent Litigation Stupidity Plug the following string into Bing or…
The AeroQuad quad-rotor featured in this video was named as one of the 6 Top Robots of Maker Faire. Read about all 6 robots at the bottom of this post. Google Trying to Preempt EU Anti-Trust Action but Critics Not Impressed If you’ve used Google for a hotel search recently, you’ve probably seen Google’s Hotel…
World’s Tallest Hotel • Booking.com most Profitable • Airfare Transparency • ICANN is Broken • Room Key • Expedia Pay-at-Checkout Controversy • OTAs Must Pay Retail Taxes • HotelTonight Acqui-hires PrimaTable • More Hotel Lock Hacking • Travel Wikis • Remote Presence Avatar • Travel Briefs • Travel Aspirations World’s Tallest Hotel Scheduled to Open…
So you want to put up a new travel website. Maybe you’re a startup hoping to build the next Hipmunk or AirBNB. Maybe you write about travel-tech, like Tnooz or Skift. Maybe you’re creating the next great inspirational travel blog. Find out how to choose and register a great Travel domain name.
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