Facebook recently teamed up with TripAdvisor to let users get advice and reviews from friends when planning tips. TripAdvisor shows a list of a user’s Facebook friends and the places they have visited. This way, users can easily find a friends review of a destination and read about their experiences. According to the Facebook blog, [...]
Four days after its public launch, About.me was acquired by AOL. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. About.me is a startup that allows users create personal profile pages linking to all their different profiles across the web including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Users can also link to their blogs and display their email [...]
Bing recently introduced what they call “Destination Pages” for city searches. A city’s destination page will give searchers information about events, weather, flights, news, etc about that city. This takes all the relevant information about a destination and places it on one easy to navigate page so that travelers will find it easy to research [...]
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook recently took his vacation in China. While there he visited Baidu and had talks with Baidu CEO, Robin Li. Even though what was talked about has not been disclosed, there is so much speculation about whether Facebook is thinking of entering the China market. American companies have had a lot [...]
Twitter has taken advertising to a new height and is said to have signed on eighty of the largest brand advertisers in the USA. The demand for advertising on Twitter is higher than Twitter can meet at the moment. Twitter offers three areas through which advertisers can get their brand out to the many consumers [...]
