Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Travel Trends – Social Savior, Australia, iPad Usage
Florida ‘Saved’ by Social Media – Praise the lord and the pass the conch chowder, Florida has been saved by social media. Or so says the crack reporting team at Fortune magazine, via CNN.com. Now, we don’t have an issue with the use of social media by Visit Florida, in fact, we encouraged and recommended [...]
This Week in Travel Tech – July 9th Edition
The stories keeping us up (far too late) at night. Google loves ITA, Google, Canada, the iPhone is dead!, geeks and airlines. Giant Step Into Travel for Google – NY Times I, for one, welcome our new booking engine overlords. Three quarters of consumers use Google Suggest to begin their travel search – Tnooz Not [...]
Travel Trends – Foursquare Layers, NCL Social, iPad Kiosks
Foursquare Goes Deeper with Location Layers – As reported by the team at ReadWriteWeb, this year’s social darling has launched an additional set of features that will allow users to see the world as recommended by their favorite organization, brand or group. Imagine the service like this, if you friend, say, the San Francisco CVB, [...]
This Week in Travel Tech
What we are reading at Travel 2.0. This week: oil spills and social, airline logos, Google Map illustrations, Yahoo!, Facebook and, yes, the iPad. Visit Florida tourism board uses Google Maps and Twitter feeds to cleanse oil-spill fears – Tnooz Emergency perception management, done right by our peers at Miles Media and Visit Florida. Birds [...]
Travel Trends – MySkyStatus, Cincinnati Zoo, CTR
Lufthansa Upgrades MySkyStatus – MySkyStatus, the foursquare update of the skies, received a pretty nice upgrade over the last month proving that Lufthansa is either serious about this social venture, or has some time to kill. For those unfamiliar with MySkyStatus, it is a deceptively simple site (or application) that allows any airline passenger to [...]
