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10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2-28-11

Sorry for the delay, but busy traveling to Berlin for ITB. Le’ts start of with a little bit of irony. In a very interesting turn of events, Kayak is going to power flight meta-search for Bing Travel…to help counter Google’s push into the travel sector with their acquisition of ITA Software…which powers Kayak’s meta-search engine. #irony. More [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-6-10

A very interesting week indeed. In particular a lot of news out of Salesforce.com and TripAdvisor. Salesforce.com had their Dreamforce event last week and there was no shortage of news. IDC #staranalyst Michael Fauscette summarizes the show, but I wanted to highlight 3 announcements of note: Salesforce Chatter goes Freemium. Perhaps one of the most important announcements [ READ MORE ]

Time to Call BS on Cloud Vendor Lock-In

The only issue more overblown than Cloud Security may be this one. I was reading yet another post on the topic today and felt compelled to write this. The premise the Lock-In Boogeymen are selling is that because of the proprietary APIs and mechanisms that are used in many of the large cloud computing (e.g. IaaS [ READ MORE ]

Architecture Matters

Some may say that all that matters is that the software works…I ain’t one of them.  The technical decisions that a  software provider makes are critically important.  It’s as important in the travel industry as it is in traditional enterprise software, especially as a lot of companies in the travel industry are looking to modernize [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 7-19-10

Hot industry stats, debates on legislation, an Open Source cloud stack and other news of note: Since Congress has started to take up the question of whether airlines need to be transparent about ancillary fees across channels, in order to allow travelers adequately compare real costs of their choices, Timothy O’Neill-Dunne puts forward the definitive answer. [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-12-10

Sorry for the late Monday post. So without further adieu: Google introduced App Inventor, a simple GUI based app builder for Android OS. TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid takes it for a spin. Mike Loukides from O’Reilly Radar discusses the different philosophies behind Apple and Google as evidenced by App Inventor. I for one don’t think that we’ll [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Travel Technology Trends Webinar Slides/Replay Available Here

Last week I presented on a webinar alongside PhoCusWright analyst Bob Offut, entitled “Travel Innovation and Technology Trends: 2010 and Beyond”, sponsored by my company Ness Software Product Labs.  I’m providing links to both the PDF of the slides and the replay of the webinar via WebEx below. In the webinar, Bob talks about the Top [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 5-24-10

It’s Tuesday, not Monday, but here’s your guide to the week that was. Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and took a moment to remember the men and women who lost their lives in defense of our country (at least those of you in the US). Timothy O’Neil-Dunne divines Google’s travel strategy. Whether he’s channeling Google [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 5-17-10

Well perhaps this week’s installment should be 10 things that happened at Google I/O. It surely dominated the conversation last week. But a few travel items make it as well including a post from FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney. news on Amadeus and Travelport and Google’s Friday acquisition of Ruba.  And in honor of the last [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-12-10

Nothing pithy to kick off the list today, so here it goes: A lot of chatter about  Twitter’s first Chirp conference. Mashable review of 6 Twitter App models that stand a chance,  and a list of takeaways from GigaOM.  But best of all is a post by Dan Howlett on how Seesmic CEO Loic LeMuir either [ READ MORE ]

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