ARTICLES ON TRAVEL 2.0
Next Wave of Travel Sites feels like MySpace describes travel 2.0 as the "second wave of travel sites on the web". What's different according to author Gregory Lamb, is the use of social networking. Travelers can post discusssions of their trips and answer questions from those planning a trip. The article discusses TripAdvisor.com, Farecast.com and Gusto.com. So far my use of the web for travel has been limited to checking flight schedules and airfares. After doing this Thing, I'll look at travel 2.0 sites when planning a trip.
Under TRAVEL BLOGS & PODCASTS, I looked through The Lost Girls. This was the winner of the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Award for Best Destination Blog. I looked at this around Easter. The Easter events on Oahu listed among other things, a $78 Sunday brunch at the Monarch room of the Royal Hawaiian. Meanwhile the Four Seasons Resort Lanai had a cheaper brunch for a mere $65. Remind me not to go to Hawaii for Easter.
TRAVEL MASHUPS
I looked at Fastfoodmaps.com. I am not a big fan of fast foods, but I looked at this anyway. When I clicked on caffeine maps, a map of the U.S. comes up showing dots for 10,709 Starbucks (this is as of July 2008). You can't zoom in and there are no street addresses. Just dots on a map.
The map for fast foods shows markers for places around the country for 10 fast food chains. Minneapolis is on the map, but there are no markers-- meaning there are no fast food places there. Not very accurate, I'd say.
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