My Trip to Malta on Instagram

iPhoneography is a style of mobile photography that differs from other forms of digital photography in that images are shot and edited on an iPhone. There are many popular applications that allow you to take a photo, apply editing and effects and share it. My favorite iPhoneography apps are Camera+, Fotolr, Instagram and Photoshop Express.[…]

Is Apple About to Change the Publishing World by Launching a Sort of GarageBand for e-books?

With the current process of publishing an e-book clearly harder than it needs to be, Apple might be getting ready to change the publishing world forever by making the process “as easy as creating a song in GarageBand.” Travel bloggers are often looking for ways to make money and one way that they have done[…]

The ‘Influencers in Travel’ Site – A Look Back From the Inside Out

For DataArt and Brilliant Travel Media, creating a site simply dedicated to hosting a number of ranking lists of those in the social media travel space, based solely on the vanity metric Klout, was both an experiment and an opportunity. As the Influencers in Travel site is now a memory, I thought it would be[…]

International Travelers Beware: iPhone 4S is a Real Gas Guzzler When it Comes to Data

If you plan to travel abroad this year with your iPhone 4S, make sure you have a clear idea of how much it will cost you in terms of data. A new study released this past week by mobile network monitoring firm Arieso reveals that the iPhone 4S commands twice as much data as the iPhone[…]

Four Ways Your Mobile Device Can Change How You Travel

A few days ago Patrick Kiger from National Geographic contacted me to discuss how I thought travelers could benefit from using their mobile devices while traveling. His piece, 4 Ways Your Phone Could Change How You Travel in 2012, includes thoughts from myself and others on new apps that untie foreign tongues, decode airports, evade[…]

Expedia Everywhere: President Scott Durchslag Says They’re Open For Business with Travel Bloggers

This past Monday, Expedia hosted Blogger Day 2011 in Seattle which was designed to bring a group of travel bloggers together with a group of key executives from Expedia in order to delve into a range of topics and discuss how some of Expedia’s recent initiatives could be beneficial in tackling some of the bloggers’[…]

Lonely Planet Launches Zulu Style Gowalla Replacement for Travelers

The day after Gowalla announced it is to become a part of Facebook, Lonely Planet has launched the unique Wenzani mobile travel guide. As I mentioned earlier today, social travel is a space waiting for a break out star and Wenzani is the latest to use socially generated recommendations to create a personalized travel guide.[…]

Top Digital Travel Media Trends for 2012 – Get Smart

One thing that you can be certain of when predicting digital travel media trends for 2012 is that the tools we use will continue to get smarter. It should come as no surprise that mobile technology will carry on as the fundamental driver of the digital travel world in 2012. As a general trend, technology[…]

The Chemistry of SEO

Impressive photos, dazzling illustrations and the most inspired writing may remain unseen by potential visitors if the web’s most meaningful spiders crawl right by. The idea of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to design your website in a way that will boost its visibility within the rankings of major search engines. To help visualize the[…]

Gowalla 4.0 – A Social Travel App That Bears Little Resemblance to the Previous Versions

With geolocation based social networks moving towards combining check-ins with deals and rewards, which was never part of their vision, the team at Gowalla recently sat down to dream it all up again. The question Gowalla CEO Josh Williams posed to his team was, “How do we create something more akin to a social Lonely[…]