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Photo Tuesday: Treasured Flickr Moments

2011-05-31 by Phil Butler

Durch die Kanäle von Delft

Argophilia, as anyone can readily see, is largely about video and images from the world of travel. We thought it might be a good idea to not only reveal the best images of places within a news context, but also purely for their beauty and interesting qualities. So, in keeping with this, the images below we have run across are here for you to enjoy too. We invite you all to submit your own images for the readership as well.

Tags: Bart Hiddink, Creative Commons, Flickr, free use, free web, getty Images, Jimmy Wales, Juan Rubiano, Ken Douglas, Louise Leclerc, Marcel Germain, Mike Arrington, photagraphers, Photo Tuesday, Tim O'Reilly, travel photography, travel pics, Web 2.0

Online Travel Warfare To End Soon

2011-02-19 by Phil Butler

Google evil versus collective evil

The war in online travel over basically who gets what & when continues this week with Delta Airlines snatching seats from Rick Seaney’s FareCompare, American Airlines going hog wild trying to engage on their own, and Google outlining (see Matt Cutts video below) how they can manually crucify websites for SPAM. Meanwhile travelers just want some price break justice.

Tags: air fares, American Airlines, BIng, Expedia, FaceCompare, Google, Google algorithms, ITA, Kayak, Matt Cutts, Microsoft, MS Travel, online bookings, Orbitz, Rick Seaney, social web, SPAM, Tim O'Reilly, TripAdvisor, Web 2.0, web transparency

Fear Google – Trust Expedia

2010-11-16 by Phil Butler

Banner from the PhoCusWright Conference site

Google’s detractors huddle in Phoenix at this year’s PhoCusWright Conference to try an lobby allies. Fearing Google’s ITA acquisition will forever change the online travel game, some top travel execs seem willing to do anything to block the Internet’s biggest player.

Tags: Amazon, Arrginton, Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, Fairlogix, FairSearch, Goby, Google, Google search, ITA, Jim Davidson, Jimmy Wales, Kayak, Kevin May, online travel, Sabre holdings, Terry Jones, Tim O'Reilly, Tnooz, travel news, travel tech

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