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Guide to 75 online travel resources

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Mashable has posted a guide to 75+ online travel resources from well-known ones like Travelocity to smaller sites such as Dopplr (still in private beta). Go to:
http://mashable.com/2007/08/14/travel-toolbox/ 
At the end of the article is a list of useful resources for Gmail, online polling, online presentations, Wordpress plugins, etc.

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Cyrus Farivar, a technology writer from San Francisco, stayed overnight at the recently opened Yotel right in Gatwick Airport, London. Yotel is the new chain of Japanese-inspired stylish budget hotels in airports. He says:
Basically once you get out of the baggage claim and clear customs, there’s an elevator that goes down one floor — and [...]

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I am testing various DIY social networking sites, specifically the ones that let you roll your own. To start, I decided on Crowdvine and created the Food and Travel Group. It’s not open to everyone. I will select who gets in, like the obnoxious doorman at a London club. I want people who have tastebuds [...]

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Big birds at SF International Airport

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I am in San Francisco for the Supernova 2007 conference. I flew in from Amsterdam yesterday afternoon and in the early evening, went to a party sponsored by Jaiku. Today, I chaired a panel on better broadband. There are parties tonight and tomorrow night, plus two more days of conference sessions. I’m exhausted and jet [...]

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I just posted a long piece about why mass market online review sites for hotels and restaurants don’t work. I’m thinking about Tripadvisor and Yelp. You don’t know who the reviewer is. Has she traveled a lot? Does she eat out frequently? Does she share the same tastes as you?
Read my post on Pajama Entrepreneur.

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Paris: yesterday and today

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Parisavant is a French website that publishes photos of street scenes in Paris taken in the past and today. So you can see side-by-side how streets, squares and buildings have changed (for better or worse).
Click here to see the thumbnails of photos.

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