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Word of the Week – RSS
RSS is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news items or podcasts. RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that page changes.
(You could ‘subscribe’ to this blog via an ...
Travel Trends – Joost, 43 Places
Joost: (pronounced ‘juiced’) From the two internet pioneers that created Skype (free internet based phone calls), Joost is an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology. Some pundits see Joost as the biggest change in the TV viewing ...
Word of the Week – Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
The most well known ...
Travel Trends – Wikitravel, Yapta, StumbleUpon
Wikitravel: Thousands of travelers contributing and building a world-wide travel guide. Based on the same technology, a wiki, that is used on the ‘encyclopedia’ site, Wikipedia.http://wikitravel.org/
Yapta: Still in beta testing, Yapta allows users to bookmark airline fares and share them with others. The site will also ...
Travelers Go and Tell, Tourism Sites Show and Sell
The Internet has made the world a smaller place, and perhaps no category has felt that impact as much as the travel industry. Some 83% of people who travel are Web savvy compared with 71% of the general public, and by 2010, about nine in 10 travelers will conduct their ...
