Archive for the ‘ User Interface ’ Category

Don’t wait for the Apple-Adobe Feud to End Before Creating Your Web/Mobile Strategy

Last week Dennis Schaal wrote an article pondering the question of what travel companies should do with their mobile and web strategies in light of the Apple/Adobe feud over Flash.  Dennis got input on whether to continue leveraging the Flash platform or wait for HTML5 to mature from several prominent individuals involved in the travel [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-19-10

Here’s your weekly reading list: T2Impact’s Timothy O’Neill-Dunne tries to judge who’s right in the airline merchandising row.  Spoiler Alert: it ain’t the BTC. American Airlines is trying to make GDSs, distribution channels to embrace XML in order to access ancillary services, which otherwise can’t be done prior to arrival at the airport.  However, American insists there [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-8-10

A little late, but here’s your weekly bit of curation: Mashable: Google v. Yahoo. Who has the right social strategy? It may not be who you think. Build or Buy revisited. From RedMonk’s @sogrady: “What Sports Can Teach Us About Analytics: The MIT Sloan Conference“  Great post about Dorkapalooza. Wished I could have attended. TechCrunch: [ 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 ]

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