http://xebidy.com Queenstown Web Design for the Social Web Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:12:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy New Year to you all.  Back from holiday and straight back into it.  I hope this first half of the year gives me more time to post more regularly than the last half of last year did. To start the year off I found this great list of articles on ... http://xebidy.com/trends-for-2010/ Feck things are busy in the Xebidy world.  Mat and I went to Sydney for the Backpackers Expo week and have not had a chance to even follow up properly since then.  Normally I try and put up a post when we get a new site live but even that ... http://xebidy.com/2-new-last-month-for-show-and-tell/ When Google and Bing announced that Tweets may appear in their search results my first reaction was - this opens a whole new field for experts to sell services on how to optimise your site for Twitter or more relevantly your Twitter account for search engines.  I wondered what people ... http://xebidy.com/twitter-optimisation-the-new-snake-oil-sales-for-seo-experts/ The recent launch of Google Sidewiki is destined to be one of the most controversial products ever to be seen on the Internet.  The blogosphere and Twitter stream is simply alive with complaints about the implications of the Sidewiki. Sidewiki is like a mini-forum or comments board that appears down the ... http://xebidy.com/google-breaks-their-own-rules-and-becomes-evil/ I have just returned from a week in Manchester at the World Youth Student Tourism Conference where I was the official blogger.  It was great event overall.  The one thing for me, however, was the lesson in blogging that I received. I have written before about the dumbing down of travel ... http://xebidy.com/a-lesson-in-blogging/ I enjoyed a fascinating presentation today at the WYSTC conference in Manchester by Technology Futurist Lee Crockett (committedsardines.com) on just how the "digital generation" think. According to Lee there is a whole type of human beings (primarily those under 25 but not necessarily) whose brains are wired differently to ... http://xebidy.com/the-digital-natives-their-brains-are-wired-differently/ Today is the start of the World Youth Student Tourism Conference (WYSTC) in Manchester and this years theme is "innovation". The first major session started with a panel discussion on the broad term of innovation - which unsurprisingly quickly took on a theme of social media. The interesting thing however ... http://xebidy.com/twitter-as-the-travel-marketing-tool-de-jour/