The Week in Travel Tech - October 18 to 24 2009

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 18 October to Saturday 24 October 2009:

Top three most commented articles this week:

• Twitter, Google and Bing – The Perfect Storm of travel search
• Expedia and Choice Hotels – a new Cold War between OTAs and hoteliers
• Will Nokia pull the Dopplr app from the iPhone?

And the rest (most recent first):

• Day Six of Ten - Using online video to market travel
• One in three bloggers want to publish a book, hundreds of mediocre travel guides likely
• Thumbs down for United Airlines’ Tilton, thumbs up for Continental’s Kellner
• Choice Hotels-Expedia power struggle could be the next tipping point
• Skiing and trains – not an obvious combination, but SnowCarbon is born
• Lonely Planet first travel brand to have a proper go at Google Wave
• Day Five of Ten – Using online video to market travel
• Could Orbitz Worldwide be someone’s stocking stuffer?
• Expedia woos Choice Hotels franchisees with letter
• Will Nokia pull the Dopplr app from the iPhone?
• Forrester: OTAs need to spice-up their blandness
• Day Four of Ten: Using online video to market travel
• Verizon generates more baseball power with mobile cell sites
• US Travel Site Crunch – Data Week End October 17 2009
• PitchUp charts early navigation with TomTom, plots transactional move
• Travelport Agencia: More to come
• Day Three of Ten – Using online video to market travel
• U.S. DOJ dials up Air Canada in Sabre-Farelogix probe
• Gadget of the Week: Digital luggage weighing scales
• Talking Travel Tech: Arnaud Bertrand of HouseTrip
• BlueSky latest: Thomas Cook Group purchases ‘certain assets’
• ITA Software’s Wertheimer shops for ‘brave few early adopters’
• Kumutu startup goes where others fear to tread, calls itself a GDS
• Day Two of Ten – Using online video to market travel
• The intricate dance between humans and technology
• Executive shake-up at TravelMuse as CFO Lemelin becomes CEO
• Former Kayaker shuns media with Jetsetter
• Day One of Ten – Using online video to market travel
• How many providers of user generated content can a website have?
• Amadeus-Travelport flirt with merger, but now let’s get serious
• UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End October 17 2009
• Sabre pushes cubeless, but CEO opts for a cube
• Orbitz redesigns homepage for faster global rollout
• Sam Gilliland says HEY! Maybe add Sabre to that GDS public offering party

Previous Week in Travel Tech:

• October 11-17 2009
• October 3-10 2009

Top three most commented articles of all time on Tnooz:

• The internet is ruining travel journalism
• Lead technology supplier for Thomas Cook goes into administration
• Google helping TripAdvisor to maintain barrier to entry

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