I’ve been remiss in not mentioning a big event in the life of a friend — namely, my fellow mesh conference organizer and former journalistic colleague Mark Evans. Now the director of community at Web 2.0 travel site PlanetEye, Mark and the rest of the team have relaunched the site with a new design and [...]
Congratulations to my friend and fellow mesh 2008 organizer Stuart MacDonald — or Captain Stubing, as we like to call him now — on the launch of Tripharbor.com (or Tripharbour.ca), which is designed to bring the cruise-booking business into the 21st century. In addition to being one of the mesh guys, Stuart is also the [...]
I don’t think my friend and fellow mesh conference organizer Stuart MacDonald will mind me saying this about him: He’s a travel geek. Not only has he been in the business a long time — from his days at Signature Vacations, to starting Expedia.ca, all the way to becoming director of marketing for Expedia.com before [...]
Just posted something to my Globe and Mail blog about Google’s possible entry into the travel game, which stemmed from a recent post by Russell Shaw over at ZDNet. Seems he noticed an ad on mediabistro.com for “Google: Senior Account Executive, Travel Vertical.” Among other things, it said that the successful applicant would: “Drive new [...]