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[”Zits” comic strip from April 2008]
Up until a year ago, rather, until I began my career in the Internet industry, I had successfully been able to avoid RSS feeds, social networking, social bookmarking, checking my Facebook updates every other hour, watching the YouTube widgets or playing on the Sudoku widget during class - and yes, […]

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In the whole scheme of this new internet, social networking, social media, Facebook, Digg, reddit, Stumble Upon, and the go to Google for everything-you-need-to-know-age - it’s as if we’ve created another realm in which we can subject and impose our subjectivity, trend-madness, collective-affirmation seeking ways.
The growing information-r-us platform which is the Internet today is an […]

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Thankfully, the spirit of Valentine’s wasn’t strong enough to bring us to the dark side of having red, pink, and cupids littered all over the office.
Instead, we got into the Valentine’s spirit and decorated in a different way - just like more and more websites are beginning to.
Chalk another one up to Google for starting […]

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We publish a fairly large online travel directory that, initially, was designed to be navigated mostly by just the search engines - so Google et al would pick us up better, faster and more efficiently. Search engines are robots. This causes a major disconnect in user experience when the users happen to be […]

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Essentially, TripOutlet.com is a place to find really, truly great travel deals.  It’s only fitting that the current slogan is “Because everybody loves travel deals”.
It’s TripOutlet’s raison d’être - TripOutlet’s reason for being.

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To better position themselves against their new rival, Facebook announced Wednesday that they’re now allowing public access to the 3rd party applications that were, up until then, locked away from anonymous, non-Facebook visitors.As previously mentioned, this had to be their next logical step if they wanted to be competitive with Google’s OpenSocial.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of TripAtlas.com, the largest and most complete travel resource on the Internet. We leverage wikipedia data, flickr photos, a few hundred thousand international travel agents, travel deals and a slick flash map into one nicely integrated site. You can research any travel destination in the world […]

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Both Google and Facebook are virtually free products that are both worth billions of dollars - and both companies promote and pioneer in online social networking.While Google offers a couple premium services of the myriad of other free services they provide, Facebook remains completely free. This means all Facebook users are equal (almost) in […]

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