Social media considered valuable resource for data collection on new travel products

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Interesting results from a survey conducted by EyeforTravel to identify trends in data sourcing shows the influence of social media when consider product strategy.

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Travel technology shakedown – are APIs evil and is XML dead?

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Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as “broken” is probably not going to take many aback.

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Making the case for open APIs in travel [VIDEO]

There has been plenty of talk recently about the concept of freely available APIs in the travel industry, with many organisations making the seismic shift to become more open.

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Travelport: Open APIs – we are working on it

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I read the recent Tnooz guest article by Flextrip co-founder Alex Kremer about travel’s gatekeepers and APIs with great interest.

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Travel industry gatekeepers should open their APIs to breed innovation

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Jeff Lawson, CEO of app software firm Twilio, gave a great talk at last week’s Gluecon conference about enabling so-called “DOers” in large organizations.

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MasterCard uses Yapta for airfare tracking service

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MasterCard Worldwide launched MasterCard PriceAssure, a program, powered by Yapta, which enables travelers to track airfare price drops and get credits.

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Yapta seeks to get distribution on track through API

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Yapta, the airfare and hotel rate tracking service, released airfare price-tracking APIs in beta.

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Viva Las Vegas – THack heads to the desert

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Tnooz and the OpenTravel Alliance are partnering to produce the second THack at the OTA’s gathering of travel companies and developers in Las Vegas in April.

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Stay.com integrates Google Places so users can add anything to guides

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Significant upgrade to fledgling trip planner Stay.com after tapping into the Google Places API so users can identify items listed in search to produce their own guidebooks.

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Future of travel reservation systems is CRM – but not as we know it

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For those of us who work in the travel reservation system software world we tend to be optimising and commoditising ideas that were first mooted in the late 1990s.

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