Want to Know How Influential You are on Pinterest?

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PinClout is a new website that brings analytics to Pinterest and assigns users a score from one to 100.

As mentioned in an earlier post, Pinterest is a fun new platform that, if leveraged properly, can provide an upper hand for travel bloggers and travel brands. Given all the recent buzz surrounding Pinterest, it was just a matter of time before some type of new service would come along to offer insight into a user’s activity Continue Reading

EasyJet Searches for Bloggers to Send to Barcelona

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Need a change of scenery from that comfy position behind your computer screen?

Yesterday easyJet announced that they are searching for 5 travel bloggers to send to Barcelona, Spain to join the inaugural press flight from the brand new Southend Airport in the UK. Whilst there, bloggers will be given a tour of the Olympic village, as well as being invited to participate in a city bike ride to get them more thoroughly acquainted with their surroundings.

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Porn Site Hack Exposes Users… And Their Password Traits

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Limp security highlights our online weaknesses.

Tech news site, ZDnet UK reports the discovery of a security hole at a popular porn site, YouPorn, that has left the email addresses and passwords of a million users exposed in an unprotected log file.

A security expert, Anders Nilsson of the Swedish firm EuroSecure revealed the presence of the file, and said that it appears to have been publicly accessible since around November 2007. He points out that since most people use Continue Reading

Travelllll.com Announces Exclusive Media Partnership with TBEX

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Coming to a computer screen near you very soon… exclusive coverage of the international Travel Bloggers Exchange conference, like never before.

Travelllll.com is very pleased to announce its new partnership with TBEX to provide exclusive coverage, behind the scenes footage and news about the world’s largest and most established travel blogging conference. Travelllll.com will be the headline media partner for the upcoming TBEX’12 - hosted in Keystone, Colorado from June 15th to 17th.

Exact details of the coverage surrounding Continue Reading

Why Aren’t More Bloggers Writing About Responsible Travel?

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Before the US Civil War, while Abraham Lincoln was still just a US state representative ignorant of the great occasions to which he would rise, he uttered a remarkably prescient maxim: “The true rule in determining to embrace or reject any thing is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good.”

I begin with this – something unimpeachably wise from someone irreproachably sagacious – in an attempt to ground what follows. Continue Reading

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