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I’ve been a huge fan for Chris Anderson for a long time. It seemed to me that the “Long Tail” completely supported my own motivation behind building Rezgo, a web based booking engine that would put inventory and distribution control into the hands of the individual supplier. Now with... (more...)

The longtail concept has been around for a long time. Chris Anderson popularized it in his creatively name book “The Long Tail“. The Wikipedia definition is that “The distribution and inventory costs of these [longtail] businesses allow them to realize significant profit out of selling... (more...)

according to this presentation by Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, reported in Tech Crunch | View | Upload your own Here are some more figures that show the rapid growth rates of he major social sites: * YouTube + Facebook page views > Google or Yahoo page views (and may be bigger than both... (more...)

There is an excellent article on Future trends in hotel e-business at Hotelmarketing.com reporting from the HEDNA conference currently taking place in Lisbon. Many key points apply to other branches of the tourism industry as well. Henry Harteveldt from Forrester says, you have to evolve from selling... (more...)

Although the 'new' Joggins Fossil Centre doesn't officially open to the public until May 17, I was delighted to receive an invitation to attend its opening ceremony last week. There is much buzz in our region about this very welcome addition to the Bay of Fundy 'product'. My first glimpse of the new... (more...)

As if they ever did!This was an original piece on Hotelmarketing.com."They don’t trust our pictures or our adjectives. They believe each other, writes hospitality industry consultant Carol Verret."OK so I know we are all on the Web 2.0/Travel 2.0 bandwagon but isn't this a little sensationalist? A... (more...)

I had the opportunity to attend the Dow Jones Wireless Innovation Conference last week in Redwood Shores, CA. The event is primarily designed to connect new mobile start-ups with funding, but the show had some interesting panels where today's hot mobile topics where debated (e.g. open systems, Internet... (more...)

Back in June of 2007, I wrote about the extraordinary concept of Kiva.org. Now I came across an interview with Bill Clinton that explains the mission very accurately…as well as this film by PBS. Another great site is GiveMeaning.com by Vancouver-based Tom Williams. Tom started his career in... (more...)