Travel Technology, Startups, and Travel Gadgets

The ‘Influencers in Travel’ Site – A Look Back From the Inside Out

by Rich Whitaker RSS 1 Comments
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For DataArt and Brilliant Travel Media, creating a site simply dedicated to hosting a number of ranking lists of those in the social media travel space, based solely on the vanity metric Klout, was both an experiment and an opportunity.

As the Influencers in Travel site is now a memory, I thought it would be good to create some closure for a project which was a success in some ways, such as the technical implementation and the response from the Continue Reading

When Did Date-Stamping Your Work Suddenly Become Unfashionable?

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 39 Comments
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Who?, Why?, What?, Where?, WHEN? The cornerstones of all journalistic endeavor.

Let me just highlight that last one again…

WHEN!!!!!

So, why recently has it become fashionable, in WordPress templates in particular, to drop the date from posts?

It should be THE ‘Golden Number One’ piece of metadata for every post, and displayed in big characters at the top of each post.

It’s not just WordPress. When I adopted my own new Joomla! template last summer I was horrified to discover Continue Reading

Google+ Engagement Metrics – Are You an Influencer in Travel?

by Rich Whitaker RSS 2 Comments
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With the recent announcement that Google will transform into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships, Google+ has suddenly become an integral part of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) that you see. Then, how do you figure out and analyze just how influential you are on Google+?

Yesterday, Google announced a major change that is hugely relevant to travel bloggers who have a significant following on Google+. For anyone looking Continue Reading

New App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Teleprompter

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 2 Comments
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Hot from the floor at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center, comes a professional autocue app for smartphones that’s perfect for videobloggers.

The Tiffen Company, a manufacturer and distributor of accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture, and broadcast markets, is showcasing the Listec™ PromptWare PW-04 app for podcasters and bloggers wanting to add scripted dialog to their broadcasts. The Promptware system is already widely used in traditional broadcasting and normally drives Continue Reading

Google Gives Travel Bloggers A Big Search Boost

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 7 Comments
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We’ve talked about the need to get consumers to use social search more. Now Google is ‘making it happen’!

Google has announced that it is rolling out Search + Your World over the next few days, bringing results from your friends – and we’re talking here about Google+ friends – to the fore.

How does it work?

Well, when it comes to your region (so far it has been rolled out to .com, but Continue Reading

International Travelers Beware: iPhone 4S is a Real Gas Guzzler When it Comes to Data

by Rich Whitaker RSS 4 Comments
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If you plan to travel abroad this year with your iPhone 4S, make sure you have a clear idea of how much it will cost you in terms of data.

A new study released this past week by mobile network monitoring firm Arieso reveals that the iPhone 4S commands twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and three times the data of the iPhone 3G. The increase is nourished by things like Siri, higher resolution Continue Reading

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