Google Hotel Finder

worth a visit >>>

Are we witnessing the death of the natural search ecosystem in travel?

on Tnooz >>>

Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales

on BBC news >>>

The Importance of Online Reputation in the Luxury Travel Industry

Riviste… da navigare

Cantoni L., Inversini A., Lizzi G., Riviste… da navigare, "Rivista del Turismo", 2/2011, pp. 4-11.

Facebook Blocks Google's Shot at Social

on Search Engine Watch

URL: User Requirements with Lego

Lorenzo Cantoni, Marco Faré, Elisabetta Frick, URL: User Requirements with Lego. Ver. 1.0. May 2011. Pdf, ~1.5 MB.

The main step forward after Lego Serious Play has become open source.

Free for download!

la dieta dei labs eLab, NewMinE & webatelier.net a Curzutt!

Connecting Usages with Usability Analysis through the User Experience Risk Assessment Model: A Case Study in the Tourism Domain

I'm going to chair the session "S054: User Experience in Online Communication" at HCI International 2011, 9-14 July 2011, Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA >>>
and to present the paper:
Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni and Davide Bolchini (2011) Connecting Usages with Usability Analysis through the User Experience Risk Assessment Model: A Case Study in the Tourism Domain, in A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability, Pt II, HCII 2011, LNCS 6770, pp. 283-293, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

Vatican News Portal

online from June 29th >>>

+1 button coming to Google AdWords

part of a letter sent by Google to AdWords campaign managers:
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In the coming weeks, your search results and ads on Google will include a +1 button, which users can click to recommend your ads. You don’t need to make any changes to your account in order to take advantage of them. The final landing page URL of your ads can also appear on the Google profile of any user who +1’s your ad.

Here’s how the +1 button works:

Let’s say you own a hotel in Madrid. Brian had a lovely stay at your hotel last summer. When Brian starts researching accommodations for his next trip to Spain, he searches on Google while signed into his Google account, and sees your ad. He clicks the +1 button on the ad to recommend it to his contacts.

When Brian’s friend Ann plans her trip to Spain, she signs in to her Google account, searches, and also sees your ad – plus the personalized annotation that Brian +1’d it. Knowing that Brian recommends your hotel helps Ann decide where to stay during her travels.

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VareseGuide: the App for iPhone/iPad is available!

VareseGuide is an interactive travel guide specifically designed for business travellers that let discovers the city of Varese and the surrounding areas >>>

The Travel Gold Rush 2020

Pioneering growth and profitability trends in the travel sector
Developed by Oxford Economics in  partnership with Amadeus >>>

O.T. where/what to eat/drink in Tortoreto lido (Abruzzo)

a great beer, a very good restaurant (even if quite slow)

Facebook Display Revenues to Nearly Double This Year

on eMarketer >>>

Google images

available now also for destop search >>>

VareseGuide

for those using Android, a great mobile appication developed by webatelier.net
in Italian & in English

Amina: a famous "gay girl" in Damascus, interesting story of a succesful hoax

see the hoax declaration on the blog itself >>>
and - just for example - an article on Repubblica describing something which just never happened >>>

Manodopera nella rete

una mia intervista pubblicata sul settimanale Area >>>

58 Interesting Ideas* for Class Blog Posts

an interesting document for primary schools (but not only for them) >>>