posted by Charles H. Russo on Sep 2
Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That’s what Minube.com (that literally means “My Cloud” in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator “Minube”.
Minube.com referred itself as being a web 2.0 site. A simple, clean and original design withgreen, red and orange clouds! It uses features that made Web 2.0 sites so convenient such as the suggestion search box; as you type in a query it will display the available cities/countries/airports dynamically via some AJAX. Pretty useful when you don’t know how to spell those Spanish cities or when you don’t know the airport name of your destination.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 30
We are now quite familiar with customer-written hotel reviews; we also know about the trendy use of video reviews of hotelsbut what about reviews of flights?!
Yesterday I stumbled upon an incredible amateur video that made it to the top #20 of the most watched video of Youtube. The statistics speak for themselves:
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That’s what Minube.com (that literally means “My Cloud” in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator “Minube”.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
First and second edition Thomson Summer 2008 brochures launched this week, unveiling a whole host of exciting new changes. The most innovative new addition to our range is the fantastic new Sensatori concept, exclusive to Thomson.
Sensatori is based on the Buddhist term Satori which means
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 26
With the current UK craze for dancing, Thomson Cruises launches
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 26
WorldMate Live – Put your smart phone to work.
WorldMate Live is a portable app that works on your Blackberry and other smart phones. The portable app is much like portable travel assistant. The WorldMate Live application will help keep your holiday and business travel stress free by alerting you of flight delays, keeping travle of reservations, important phone numbers and more.
Unlike other such services, WorldMate Live is updated in real time. Find out exactly when you flight gets delayed so that you can make arrangements fast. No more waiting till your at the ticket counter to find out about your delayed flight.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jun 29
One of the best ways to get to know
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jun 17
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jun 13
Are you pining for the pistes? Can
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jun 5
Beach, Corsica