travel | Kris Smith has read these articles about "travel" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "travel" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpNewspapers and url shortening- November 21, 2007 Commenting on yesterday's piece, Hanan Cohen says that newspapers in Israel use TinyUrl to publish web addresses on paper. This is both a good idea and not such a good idea. First, it's a good idea because it saves space and in print, space is at a premium. But they're leaving money on the table. If they used their own web address they could monitor traffic, see how many clicks each location in the paper generated. Maybe stories on the op-ed page generate more clicks than those on the front...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/21/newspapersAndUrlShortening.html All Entrepreneurs Burnout, It's Just a Matter of Time- November 19, 2007 If you drive a car 100mph for a prolonged period of time, the engine (or something else) is going to give-in and the passengers in the car could be stuck in a precarious situation. My cousin played tennis growing up and she was so good that she turned pro during college. After playing top tennis stars (Lindsey Davenport, etc) and training day-inday-out for over 10 years, she burned out. She has only since picked up a tennis racket for close family members (and she's still...http://www.centernetworks.com/entrepreneurs-burnout Chumby - FIrst Impressions & Ponies I'd Like from PeopleOverProcess.com- November 17, 2007 I got a Chumby in the mail yesterday. Here's my virtual Chumby: From what I can tell, it's a little linux box with a touch screen, wifi, and runs Flash widgets. Seems like there'll be a good reason to play around with Flash. The Chumby is this little, soft bound screen that plays widgets. Mostly RSS feeds dressed up fancy now, but there's some games that you can use the touch screen with. With things like this and people like me, the first thing you get is a big bucket of wouldn't it be...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/186323591/ Startup Review: SesameVault, Ask500People, TranslationBooth, Travature, Tastoria- November 8, 2007 Below are five of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending November 8, 2007. Check out previous Killer Startups posts. SesameVault.com - Manage Your Audio And Video Content SesameVault.com is a site for businesses, museums, libraries, web developers, educational providers, among others who need to manage their video and audio material. SesameVault.com offers a web based service that helps you; store, manage, decode, encode, publish, distribute, track and...http://www.centernetworks.com/startup-review-nov-8 MySpace Launching 'HyperTargeting' Ads- November 5, 2007 The world's largest social networking site today announced that it would be launching a new advertising program it calls "HyperTargeting," which uses profile data to target ads to users. MySpace rolled out the first phase of its HyperTargeting program to a select group of advertisers, including Microsoft, Ford, Toyota, Proctor & Gamble, and Universal Pictures, in July by dividing its users into 10 target groups (music, movies, personal finance, gaming, consumer electronics, sports, travel,.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/180120166/myspace_launching_hypertargeting_... |