I don’t have much to say, other than I obviously don’t have kids or celebrate holidays. =) See below. I find this profound. I have been harping on FB for years about this, not that they listen. A
Yelp Increasing Transparency
This is a quick and dirty post, something I seem to be a fan of. YELP IS INCREASING TRANSPARENCY They are discontinuing the sponsored business listing “favorite review” feature which confuses
#SMTravel Conference Mashup – Hospitality/Travel/Tourism & The Current State of Social Media
I imagine this is one of the first mash ups of a live-twittered conference? If not the first, one of the only ones because this was massively, overly, insanely, time-consuming. I do think what came of it was worthwhile, and I hope this sort of serves as a testament to all we spoke about and considered during Eye for Travel SM SF 2010.
TripAdvisor Ethics Watch – Pay to list phone and website?
The rest that is cut off (hey I am a hotel guy, not a HTML guy) says “($42/month), would you?” You can take the survey yourself right here: TripAdvisor Survey for Owners. I will let the pic
Well done Tripadvisor – the first step is admitting you have a problem.
Once again, I get carried away with a response to a blog post. I am sure this counts as real business right? Newsweek’s Budget Travel has a great article about TripAdvisor trying to deal with the long coming revelation that many of their users and reviews are not legitimate. This is, frankly, a huge blow to the site, and should pose a happy problem in it’s early adolescence as they deal with all the changes that come along with growing into adulthood. Frankly, I am thrilled that this may provoke User Generated Content sites to seek the same verification model other sites have.