Coca Cola is currently testing out a new concept of soda fountains called the Freestyle. The Freestyle is being tested in select restaurants in Orange County, CA and Atlanta, GA. The machine operates under a touch screen user-interface system. Coca Cola Freestyle uses flavor cartridges and dispenses your drink of choice using micro-dosing technology. There are over 100 flavors available, across an array of drink brands, including Coke, Fanta, energy drinks, flavored waters, and more. [...]
In today’s internet world, it is imperative to have a website for your business. How do you get on the web? The first step is to purchase a domain name (the website address) from a registrar such as Moniker or Go Daddy. A registrar is an authorized reseller of domain names from a registry. Your domain name needs to communicate to others what you are selling or offering. Since there are so many websites on [...]
April Fools Day was yesterday and many jokes ensued on the internet. Call me gullible, but I fell for most of them. The first one that I caught was that the social media tool Twitter was applying for the top level domain (TLD) “.tweet” Gmail AutopilotTM by CADIE offered a way to automatically respond to the massive amount of email traffic that many people have to deal with day in and day out. The mock [...]
Recently, a new TLD (top level domain) was launched to the internet, .tel. .tel addresses are the newest way to store all of your personal or business contact information in one, easily accessible, place on the web. On the surface .tel is just another top-level domain (TLD), like .com, .org, .net etc. But that is where the similarities end. Instead of needing to buy a domain name, find a hosting service for it, and designing [...]
Forget Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web 3.0 is the next generation of the internet. Think of Web 1.0 as a library. You can use it as a source of information, but you can’t contribute to or change the information in any way. Web 2.0 is more like a big group of friends and acquaintances. You can still use it to receive information, but you also contribute to the conversation and make it a richer experience. [...]
My last post listed top social media trends for travel and tourism. One of the suggestions, made by Klaus Hidebrandt was to get your CEO or top executive involved in social media. The most current trend to introduce this idea? ExecTweet. ExecTweet is Twitter spinoff site that just displays tweets from select executives, making it easier to track the big shots on Twitter. It is published by ad firm Federated Media, and sponsored by Microsoft. [...]
Last week, I attended the PhoCusWright Blogger’s Summit Workshop held at the ITB conference in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was entitled “The Top Social Media Trends for Travel & Tourism” and featured a panel of 5 major bloggers. Each member of the panel was asked to provide his 3-5 top Social Media Trends for 2009: Darren Cronian Mobile Twitter: companies are going to have to become more social and interact with the consumer Travel companies [...]
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and the search engines have created special logos and maps for the day. Let’s start of with a collage of logos, that Barry Schwartz compiled at the Search Engine Roundtable. The Live Search Blog has a blog post that shows how Live Search Maps has several maps that shows few collections of favorite destinations for St Patrick’s Day. For example, Boston, New York, Chicago and Seattle are some of the [...]
Happy Fat Tuesday! This past weekend I visited one of my favorite U.S. cities, New Orleans, for the start of the Mardi Gras celebrations. If you want to celebrate and are unable to make the trip to the Big Easy, the internet has some great ways to make it feel like you are there. Throw on some party beads and watch the parades!Click here for a live webcam of various shots of New Orleans, as [...]
As way of an introduction, I will tell you a little bit about the purpose of this blog and the origins of it. Starting at a young age, I was exposed to different cultures and creative outlets. My father is from Brazil, my mother American, and I spent my first few years of my life living in South America before moving back to the states. I have always loved traveling and exploring the world and [...]
