Web 3.0 and Lonely Planet

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and Priceline from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Lonely Planet’s offering. Lonely Planet is a travel content publication company founded by Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 1973 and headquartered in Melbourne,

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Web 3.0 & Travelocity

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel and TripAdvisor from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Travelocity’s offering. Travelocity, launched in 1996 is an online travel agency. It is owned by Sabre Holdings. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Travelocity is ranked number two among the

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Web 3.0 & Yahoo! Travel

I have just published an overview of the Online Travel segment. You may want to read that, before reading this review. In this section we will analyze the Yahoo! Travel site based on the Web 3.0 framework. The site provides information on travel destinations, best bargains on hotel and travel fares. It has an attractive

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Travel & Web 3.0: Overview

Online Travel is one of the top segments that draws over 2% of the Internet traffic and approximately 24% of online advertising dollars, and in this series, we will evaluate the category against the Web 3.0 framework. According to a report published by Hitwise, Online Travel sites accounted for an average of 2.02% of all

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Adify Challenges AdSense

Adify, the small ad network company that is powering blog networks for larger “old” media companies such as Washington Post just raised $19 Million in funding from USVP, NBC and Time Warner. In my Giving Up on AdSense piece, I referred to the WPNI program, which is powered by Adify. Amit Agarwal reports: ComputerWorld, the

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BusinessWeek: Crown Jewel or Achilles’ Heel?

In my post, “McGraw-Hill: Beating the Street” I have discussed McGraw-Hill’s overall business prospects, which looks good with lower double-digit growth in 2007. However, BusinessWeek, McGraw-Hill’s crown jewel is struggling and I am going to talk about it here. BusinessWeek, is one of the most widely read business magazines, with more than 4.7 million readers

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The Pro-Am debate

And just as I wrote the Newspapers, Roll Up! piece, I read this one on Techmeme. Fascinating read. :: Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium? Commentary: Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question. By Robert Niles Posted: 2007-03-02 Over the past months, I’ve heard several

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Fashion Blog

Have a look at this: NY Times Fashion critic opens a blog called Runway. It’s got some class, and promises to be something potentially non-trashy, judging by the delightful piece on Alber Elbaz’s experiments with Polyester, and a gem of a line: tomorrow is actually a difficult place to reach.