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March 31, 2009

Innovation in Online Travel

Tweet I am working with Bob Offutt this year screening applicants for the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit in November. This effort has triggered some thoughts about how innovation comes to the market as well as the danger to companies that lack innovation. From 1989-1995 I worked at Sun Microsystems. Part of management training at Sun was reading the book The Paradigm-Shift-Promise-Information-Technology […]

March 23, 2009

Mobile Panel at PhoCusWright

Tweet I had the pleasure of moderating the panel entitled : Best Practices in Mobile Applications at the PhoCusWright@ITB conference earlier this month. We had a good cross-section of panelists that included Pablo Alvarez, Group Innovation Manager, Lastminute.com, Stefano Galastri, President and CEO SIA Internet, Marina Hegemann, Managing Director, TouristMobile GmBH, Michael Lacy CEO the Handy Group, and Gerry Samuels, […]

March 12, 2009

How Twitter has changed the conference experience

Tweet At the PhoCusWright@ITB Bloggers Summit, Twitter was the hot technology talked about at length as a new window into social networking. Something that has not been covered is the impact of Twitter on the conference experience itself. This was very true the second day of the conference. I sat at the PhoCusWright table behind all the bloggers. Without an […]

March 11, 2009

PhoCusWright @ ITB – Day One

Tweet I am blogging from the PhoCusWright@ITB. The day began with a BloggerSummit, clearly the leaders in new media from around the world with representatives from Europe, North and South America. We exchanged best practices in blogging and tweeting. This was followed by an early look at the five minute of fame innovators who will present tomorrow. Philip Wolf then […]

March 5, 2009

Full Content

Tweet Dennis Schaal, technology editor for Travel Weekly has written some very insightful articles regarding the lack of full content in the GDS (despite the full content agreement signed in 2005) and more recently the termination of the agreement between Farelogix and Sabre. (links requires a subscription). This is a complex problem that is both an issue of technology and […]

February 25, 2009

An intelligent travel assistant

Tweet It was way back in 1985 I first began exploring the use of AI expert systems to automate the travel process. At that time a close friend worked for Mad Intelligent Systems in Santa Clara California. I was at United Airlines and I already had a thirst for emerging technology. I believed that automating the travel process would be […]