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10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2/29/10

Let’s see what came up: Forrester analyst John Rymer’s take on Oracle’s Cloud strategy. And for a bonus, a slightly different interpretation by fellow Forrester analyst Stefan Reid. Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDnet: The Facebook imperative for enterprise software.  Hinchliffe is great. Longish articles at times, but good insight. Riffing off Benioff’s recent proclamation that enterprise software should look [ READ MORE ]

Homeaway on a bit of a buying spree

Homeaway, the online vacation rental giant snapped up it’s second vacation rental site in less than a week, purchasing AlugueTemporada.com.br.  The move expands Homeaway’s footprint into South America and gives them over 12,000 property listings on the continent and 475,000 worldwide.  The move is pretty savvy given the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 [ READ MORE ]

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 [ READ MORE ]

Bing Maps TED Talk, Augmented Reality and the Impact on the Travel Industry

Today I saw a video from TED 2010 of Blaise Aguera y Arcas (an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, the architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth) presenting how Bing Maps has begun to integrate augmented reality into the experience.  Really very cool stuff. Watch the video (below) and then meet me for the [ READ MORE ]

Could Touch Finally Pursuade Travel Agents Adopt a New UI Paradigm?

One of the amazing oddities of the travel sector is the lack of adoption by traditional travel agents of modern user interfaces in travel reservation systems. It’s kind of funny that much of the software industry is debating HMTL5 versus Flash while the travel industry is holding onto a user experience that makes me [ READ MORE ]

OMG, PCW Missed the Point

Now I may be relatively new to the travel industry, but I’m not new to controversy, so let me get this off my chest. I like many others were glued to their computers listening to live audio streams of yesterday’s Apple iPad announcement, tweeting away.  Now I won’t get into the whole debate as to whether [ READ MORE ]

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