10 That Caught My Eye
Each week I’ll be providing a list of 10 items that caught my eye during the past week, in no particular order. So if you missed it, here’s your chance to find what I thought was interesting. Please provide feedback good or bad so I can improve the relevancy…well at least understand what you’re interested in.
- Switched On: Making it different versus making a difference Impressions of Windows Phone 7. Story is just like it sounds, but this new mobile OS from Microsoft will either seriously impact the mobile landscape or will be the final chapter in Microsoft’s attempt at participating in the mobile market.
- Scobleizer: Marc Benioff’s enterprise ambitions (first look at Salesforce Chatter) Tech blogger extraordinaire Robert Scoble’s take on Salesforce.com’s social enterprise app.
- Tnooz: Yapta to integrate Kayak Meta Search Engine. Another interesting move my travel meta-search leader Kayak.com as they evolve their business.
- Tnooz: Orbitz launches travel agent website, commission program for hotels, packages Interesting move by leading OTA Orbitz to try to get traditional travel agents to book on their platform. You always hear that Sales people are coin-operated, I guess we’ll find out as Orbitz increases commissions by 20%.
- Singularity Hub: Minority Report Interface Is Real, Hitting Mainstream Soon (Video). Usability is so interesting to me. The guy who designed the interface concepts for the movie “Minority Report” is trying to build a real business out of it. I think that this tracks very nicely with the move away from mouse and keyboard interaction. Perhaps life will imitate art after all.
- Tnooz: How the travel industry can thrive rather than just survive in 2010 Coming out of a brutal 2009, there is muted optimism for a recovery. Technology to support dynamic packaging can enable both travel suppliers and intermediaries to create demand.
- Tnooz: A genuine “awesome” – Microsoft new visual eye candy on Bing Maps. Story covering Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ TED talk on Bing Maps and Augmented Reality. tNooz’s ever-intelligent editor Kevin May links to amazing insights by…wait for it…ME! on how such technologies may impact the travel market.
- TechCrunch: My Bloody Valentine: Expedia.com Semi-hilarious and well chronicled story of TechCrunch’s MG Siegler’s misadventures with a booking on Expedia.com. Expedia finally made good (at least economically), but the lag in response time is stark contrast to Southwest Airlines’ response to “Silent Blob” being tossed off a flight for being to fat to fit in a single seat.
- Travel Trends – Travel 2.0 Blog: The Future of Visitor Guides, 2009 Internet Usage Stats. Another look at how the iPad may revolutionize travel and some good stats on Internet usage, et al.
- Sameer Patel’s Pretzel Logic: The Enterprise 2.0 Parallel Universe Start to Merge. Sameer’s blog is a must read. This post provides some insight on how the Social Web and Unified Communications markets may start to merge.
Thanks for the reference and the kind words, Glenn