The Travel PR Blog

The long-tailed Chris Anderson and Social Text’s Ross Mayfield have created a Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki to track the participation of  America’s top companies in the blogosphere.
Happily the intention is to go beyond a mere list of who blogs where.
According to Anderson:
Over time, as the list gets more robust, we’ll [...]

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Jeremy Hermanns’ adventures in a holed Alaska Airlines flight are all over the blogosphere right now and barely need repeated here. Interesting though that almost as many screen inches are now being dedicated to speculation on the source of vituperative comments on his blog.
Hermanns has tracked the IP address of some of the more ridiculous [...]

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For a while now I have been explaining to travel clients how social media, in particular blogs, can help to engage women customers and drive business.
We already know women spend more time and are more meticulous at researching travel destinations before they buy (women are also by far the main purchasers of travel).
Now, a [...]

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Still on the subject of Yahoo! the travel team just released the Travel Trip Planner API. What’s that you ask?
With the Yahoo! Travel Trip Plan APIs you can search for trip plans by Yahoo! ID or by search query, or retrieve a specific trip plan by ID. The Yahoo! Travel Trip Plan APIs have been [...]

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Probably a daft question but exactly how long is Yahoo! 360 going to stay in beta? Surely it is time they broke the champagne over their blogging baby’s head and showed it the door.
Recently, the 360 team announced a new set of features including the ability to write reviews and post ratings on Yahoo! Travel. [...]

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In his festive address to Redmond troops, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s CTO, looked forward to happy days working with his brother Jack and his concept development group “to rapidly incubate many ideas that have been spinning around in our minds”. Presumably one of these is the concept of Simple Shared Extensions which he floated at the [...]

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I am quite mesmerised by these new Kinja profile cards which offer a quick window into a blog’s state of health, its link status, history and closest relatives. Here’s an example.
And all easily reached from a handy new bookmarklet.
John at Freshblog has done a great guide. Much more comprehensive than I could do in the [...]

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This little post is coming to you thanks to a combination of two great firefox extensions: the GeckTIP extension (because I  am writing it in ink on a M200 tablet) and the brand new blogging extension from the guys at Performancing. Great when you are on the road or, as I am right now, sprawled [...]

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I am a big fan of Jon Aquino’s Yubnub, dubbed “a command line for the web”, which provides an incredible array of shortcuts to sites and services.
Now Yahoo! has got into the game with a similar idea, providing registered users with the means to create Open Shortcuts within Yahoo! Search.
In a nutshell:
To use an [...]

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Here’s one incredibly cool website. Joel Parish has created AjaxTrans No, it’s not a destination for transvestites where they can upload their image and try on different clothes in real time (where did that idea come from?!).
 
It’s an instant translator which uses the [...]

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No sooner do I start comparing the relative merits of TypePad and the Yahoo! Movable product for business blogs than TypePad throws a major wobbly and shuts down all its users for eighteen hours.
 
This is serious and, personally, not great timing. I have a client - a small travel company - starting a blog this week [...]

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In a surprise move, Yahoo! announced on Monday that it would offer Six Apart’s Movable Type blogging software as part of its small business website offering (many people thought Yahoo! would just go ahead and buy Six Apart one day).
 
And lo, it was as good as its word with a Movable option available almost from the moment [...]

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