Posts Tagged ‘tech’

Travel Guides:Gowalla and Foursquare lead traveler to House of Pies

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,

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Online Travel Guide:Taking a nerd break

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Things will be a bit quiet around the ol’ blog for a few days while I’m getting ready for/participating in/recovering from the tech conference madness that is “Geek Spring Break” at Austin’s South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) – here’s my report

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World Travel:Report from the Nerd Break at SXSWi

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.As suspected, not a lot of burning family travel news to come out of my time at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech conference last week, but here are two items of possible interest to parents….
***  The research work of Dr. danah boyd (yes, she spells it lowercase)

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