Best of Tnooz last week - Ecosystems, How to be nice, Fixing prices, Juicy tales, Bogus proddingNewsBy PhocusWire | August 26, 2012Share This article was originally published on What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?Top ten by traffic:The new Google travel ecosystem… from the user point of viewHow WestJet managed to get 180,000 LIKES and 9,500 comments on Facebook for being niceThe 10 juiciest confessions from hotel employees venting on RedditHotel price fixing saga switches to the US with class action against Expedia and othersTripAdvisor responds to a provocative study of bogus online reviewsJulian Assange used Airbnb to find his Ecuador Embassy home in London – maybeGetGoing introduces the surprise element to air ticket bookingsMorning Scan: Amex’s Orbitz-run booking engine launches, United pivots its blog, and moreMove over you social media luvvies, apparently only 1 per cent of travellers are listeningHotel price fixing case will likely do little but generate legal fee bonanzaTop five by comments:TripAdvisor responds to a provocative study of bogus online reviewsMove over you social media luvvies, apparently only 1 per cent of travellers are listeningGetGoing introduces the surprise element to air ticket bookingsAre small tourism businesses lacking in best practice when it comes to the web?Study reveals truths about short-term rental and homestay marketHow to:Eleven important steps when picking travel agent and tour operator softwareAre small tourism businesses lacking in best practice when it comes to the web?Rough guide to understanding consumer generated media in travelStartups on TLabs:WhenCorp helps businesses list their event calendars everywhere onlineStartup entrepreneurship – the rose-tinted spectacles version? [VIDEO]GuestComment wants to make collecting hotel reviews as easy as pressing a buttonGetGoing introduces the surprise element to air ticket bookingsTalking Travel Tech blog:Google-Frommer’s, TSA security discoveries and other madness – fireside chat on a SundayWhat you missed before:Best of Tnooz last week - Fromoogle everywhere, United kid nowhere, Blog kid reunited, RIP postcardComing up:TnoozLIVE - Next episode with WIT: Marketing to the new traveller in AsiaTnooz-PhoCusWright FREE Webinar: LIVE research with YOU as the subjectTHack developer hackathon heads west – Silicon Valley here we comePrevious events:Tnooz-Sabre webinar VIDEO: Technology and its massive impact on the travel experienceTnooz-Amadeus webinar VIDEO: Rethinking airports for future connected travelersTnooz-ITB Academy webinar VIDEO: Hotels and mobile – What is next?TnoozLIVE – Episode Two [VIDEO]: Big Data Special, Mobile, Search and moreGDS news roundup:GDS news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus – August 2012More Tnooz:Like Tnooz on FacebookFollow Tnooz on TwitterSign up to Tnooz daily email alertsGet in touch with Tnooz