Travo weekly round-up #5

Here are the top stories by visits on the Travolution website for the week ending Friday 15 February 2008:

• Virgin Holidays set summer 2008 for online relaunch
• TravelSupermarket shortlists three for top job
• Budget Travel swaps Anite for BlueSky
• Comtec seeks funds for growth strategy
• Expedia to build dynamic packaging comparison tool

Best of the blogs:

• Open Skies down under, from The BOOT
• Dynamic packaging in NZ, from Travel Remark
• Gotcha Capitalism, from The BOOT
• Stupid killer apps, from Drama 2.0
• Google slap, from Search Engine Land

Please further recommendations in the comments section.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

Travo weekly round-up #3

Here are the top stories by visits on the Travolution website for the week ending Friday 1 February 2008.

• Opodo profits to trigger investment in site.
• Sky picks Expedia-TripAdvisor for white label deal.
• Telegraph reviews travel search business.
• Cheapflights will not be rushed into float decision.
• WAYN approach over sale - but not by AOL.

Best of the blogs:

• Google Suggest, from Les Exploers.
• 10 questions for tour operators, from Musings.
• Microsoft-Yahoo dino deal, from Buzzmachine.
• Facebook apps on any site, from TechCrunch.
• SEO millionaire, from SearchEngineWatch.

Please post and further recommendations in the comments section.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

Travo weekly round-up #2

Here are the top five stories by visits on the Travolution website for the week ending Friday 25 January 2007:

• WAYN approached over sale - but no by AOL
• TripAdvisor reveals results for Hayes & Jarvis deal
• Thomson jumps ahead of Expedia in post-Christmas booking
• Expedia UK founder eyes British travel tech companies
• Hotels4u.com enters mobile booking arena

Best of the blogs:

• Who markets products better, from Musings.
• Google at Davos, from BuzzMachine.
• Google in a recession, from Search Engine Land.
• Tripit goes social, from TechCrunch US.
• The Crunchies, from Drama 2.0.

Please post any further recommendations in the comments section.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution