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I love the Mac experience but I am sure half the joy of switching this summer came from the fact my tablet pc had about 200 programmes on it and a whole mess of debris from mucking around with MySQL, Apache and - yeh, like I know what I am doing - even Ruby on [...]

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Thanks to everybody who made my APRO talk such a great experience - for me anyway. I loved the way so many people took copious notes. Or maybe they were just doodling.
As usual the TripAdvisor question popped up: as in “what do we do about TripAdvisor?” I’d love a pound for every time I get [...]

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The latest ABTN newsletter has a piece about the Hoxton Hotel. It has garnered some online buzz but given its target market, I think it could be trying harder to connect with bloggers and web commentators.
My eye was caught by this quote from the GM half way down:
And while The Hoxton doesn’t yet have [...]

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Another fantastic time-waster courtesy of the interweb. Duncan Rawlinson of The Last Minute Blog has created metaholic. In his words:
I made this little thing because I wanted one stop shopping for interesting stuff from more than one memetracker.
Give it a browse and see how quickly the morning flashes by. I left a comment to [...]

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Fifteen months ago, I gave a talk to independent tour operators and as part of my explanation of why user generated content can damage your reputation, I cited the example of Canterbury Travel. That day I had checked their Google results and found this - Don’t travel with Canterbury Travel, why Canterbury Travel will ruin [...]

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