Archives for November 2010

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2010-11-29

The RobertKCole Daily is out! http://bit.ly/bmN1Oo ▸ Top stories today by @RadioMilwaukee @AquinasWI @Susantravels @tnooz @TheHotelsHotel # The RobertKCole Daily is out! http://bit.ly/bmN1Oo ▸ Top stories today by @KierMatthews # You are better at social media than film criticism 🙂 RT @jowyang: Watching Harry Potter 1, great film, they all went downhill from there. # […]

Top 10 Travel-Marketing-Technology Twitter HashTags For November 15-21

By my count, the PhoCusWright Conference in Phoenix last week utilized at least 49 different hashtags, but that by no means gave them a corner on the market. There were several other major conferences held that covered Word of Mouth Marketing, Web 2.0, Twitter, Innovation, Mobile, European Startups and another travel industry tradition, the New […]

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2010-11-22

The RobertKCole Daily is out! http://bit.ly/bmN1Oo ▸ Top stories today by @kevinlukemay @LHMagazine @lonelyplanet @petershankman # What, no extra fee for serif font? RT @saykay: So when did AA change its self-service kiosk font from sans serif to serif? # Epic @Classof35 party ends 3 days after conference? RT @saykay: Holy early flight, Batman. (@ […]

SilverRail – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Winner

SilverRail – Twitter Synopsis: Aggregates global rail suppliers into a single distribution platform with rules based APIs for each carrier system and single user interface Just the Facts: Company Name: SilverRail Technologies Website: www.silverrail.com Location: Woburn, MA Judging Category: New Company Business Segment: Rail Search Product Name: Trax Demonstrated by: Aaron Gowell, Founder & CEO […]

CruiseLabs – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Runner-up

CruiseLabs – Twitter Synopsis: Multi-GDS/XML capable cruise booking engine with interactive deck maps, proprietary videos and travel agent chat within shopping application Just the Facts: Company Name: CruiseLabs Website: www.cruiselabs.com Location: Plano, TX Judging Category: Emerging Company Business Segment: Cruise Booking Engine Product Name: NexWav Demonstrated by: David Tossell, CEO Company Description (from website) Plano, […]

Kony Solutions – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Finalist

Kony Solutions – Twitter Synopsis: Single write-once, run everywhere mobile application platform provides device independent deployment across multiple channels & form factors Just the Facts: Company Name: Kony Solutions Website: www.konysolutions.com Location: San Mateo, CA Judging Category: Established Company Business Segment: Mobile Platform Product Name: Kony Mobile Application Platform Demonstrated by: Pico Rech, Senior Solutions […]

TrustYou – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Runner-up

TrustYou – Twitter Synopsis: Uses semantic technology to analyze/aggregate reviews across dozens of travel sites & social communities for hotel reputation management Just the Facts: Company Name: TrustYou Website: www.trustyou.com Location: Munich, Germany Judging Category: New Company Business Segment: Semantic Review Aggregation Product Name: TrustYou Analytics & Semantics Demonstrated by: Benjamin Jost, Co-Founder & Managing […]

My Twitter Digest for the Past Week 2010-11-15

The RobertKCole Daily is out! http://bit.ly/bmN1Oo ▸ Top stories today by @itsmescotty @tnooz @TheHotelsHotel # On my way to #PhoCusWright in Phoenix. (@ General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) ✈ w/ 13 others) http://4sq.com/56h9fn # [Redacted] That pretty much sums it up… RT @msenske: @RobertKCole Tell us how you really feel. 😀 # I would rather […]

Handicapping PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovation Summit

The PhoCusWright Travel Innovation summit provides an unparalleled opportunity for companies to showcase their latest and most prized works of development wizardry to an audience of influential travel industry leaders. Handicapping this event is a difficult challenge – There is no daily racing form, and aside from Goby participating, and Amadeus winning last year, there […]

Top 10 Travel Marketing Technology Twitter HashTags For November 8-14

Some of the world’s most important conferences in a variety of disciplines took place this week including global travel, enterprise computing, social media and search marketing, mobile, video, Microsoft and those beloved bleeding-edge startups. Here are my picks for the top ten Twitter #hashtags covering travel, marketing and technology for the week of November 8 […]