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Yahoo – Tumblr It is reported as a done deal: Yahoo made a 1.1 billion cash offer to acquire Tumblr and the offer has been accepted. I’ll copy and paste some web reactions to the deal: WSJ on the deal Yahoo promises not to screw it up David Karp on Tumblr Marco Arment on a personal note... (more...)

“I look at the world in a different way now. I tend to look at things and weigh them, and think, ‘Could I make that fly?’” If you’re British, you’ve probably seen the Avios ad where items including a washing machine, a lawnmower and a barbecue take wings — well,... (more...)

I was asked to speak tonight at the Goodman School of Business at Brock University about how to succeed in business. It does not feel like long ago that I was a student at Brock attending a similar talk, with business professionals telling us how they built their career and what we would need to do to... (more...)

At Think! we love working with bloggers because they are, generally speaking, very passionate and excellent creators of content. We work with dozens of DMOs around the world, helping them arrange blog trips and we involve bloggers in many of our campaigns. About a month ago I attended the 2012 Digital... (more...)

December has been a great month as we’ve been blessed with one good news after another. After learning that our magazine is a finalist in the Digital Magazine Awards 2012, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve won the Best Travel Blogger of 2012 award from Holidays Extras! The Holidays Extras Customers’... (more...)

The Travel Bogger Exchange conference, TBEX, will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 1 and 3, 2013 (presented by BlogWorld). This is the last week for early bird registration pricing for TBEX 2013 in Toronto. The low registration fee of $77 for bloggers and $697 for industry representatives... (more...)

A couple of months ago, I unwisely signed up to The Travel Blogging Calendar. Yes, a travel blogging calendar. This is, as the name would suggest, a laudable initative whereby travel bloggers, male and female, pose for a calendar, which is then sold to raise money for charities (pre-order here!). I’m... (more...)

We’ve just returned from a weekend at TBEX (Travel Bloggers Exchange) in Girona, Spain, where we mingled with fellow travel writers and bloggers, swapped ideas and shared a laugh or two. It was great meeting people who share the same passion and ideology and also catching up with old friends from... (more...)