The Week in Travel Tech - January 24 to January 30 2010

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 24 to Saturday 30 January 2010:

Top three most commented articles this week:

• Five ways online travel agencies can get their Mojo back
• eBay says flights, cruise, package holidays are next, admits previous deals failed
• iSlate, Kindle and travel – a marriage made in heaven or heading for a quickie divorce

Controversial topics of the week:

• Help! Can someone explain what is a click-through travel booking?
• Is the first rule of a social media strategy to announce you are going to get one?
• Earth.org stops spinning, says users did not listen

List of the week:

• Top ten technology gadgets for the modern hotel room

And the rest (most recent first):

• BRB…As promised, JetBlue.com will ‘be right back’ — hopefully
• Has Air New Zealand considered custom-built containers for Pandas? FedEx has
• Amadeus widens content agreement with Air France-KLM
• Zoombu almost comes out of Beta with offshoot site for ski trips
• Fans of Lost: real-time video and Flight 815 in search results
• Kayak goes public with Private Sale hotels, rewriting metasearch playbook
• JetBlue braces for wild weekend with Sabre cutover, works on onboard food sales
• Twitter CEO rejoices — bags finally arrive from United Airlines 42 hours late
• NY investigates online travel agencies for links to fee-taking discount clubs
• Apple iPad – helping say goodbye to Cannonball web formats in travel
• Tech tidbits from United Airlines, AirTran Airways
• TripAdvisor flight metasearch – one year on, ‘millions’ using it
• Sequoia India boosts coffers of online travel portal with $10M investment
• TravelFusion plugs maps into door-to-door metasearch
• TravelFish unveils Angkor iPhone app, says the giants of publishing cannot compete
• Wiki vs Professional debate returns as Earth.org tries to muscle into content arena
• Private jet service just edged-out by Twitter in 2009 largest VC investments
• US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 23 2010
• Industrial Relations 2.0 – Unions turns to Twitter in fight against British Airways
• Did drug-maker influence lead to WHO H1N1 overkill?
• Aldi axes travel website after just 12 months
• Amadeus introduces fare-merchandising tool for travel agencies
• Beyond the press release: TRX, Amex amend service agreement
• New Priceline iPhone app makes point with electronic compass
• UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 23 2010
• Wall Street Journal becomes latest in long line of mainstream media to try online travel?
• TripChill builds Twitter trip notification engine

Previous Week in Travel Tech:

• January 17-23 2010
• January 10-16 2010
• January 3-9 2010
• December 27-January 2 2010
• December 20-26 2009
• December 13-19 2009
• December 6-12 2009
• November 29-December 5 2009
• November 22-28 2009
• November 15-21 2009
• November 8-14 2009
• November 1-7 2009
• October 25-31 2009
• October 18-24 2009
• October 11-17 2009
• October 3-10 2009

Predictions 2010:

• Tnooz predictions for 2010 – the biggest and best list in travel tech

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