maanantai 12. heinäkuuta 2010

torstai 8. heinäkuuta 2010

Social shopping - hinnanalennuksia volyymilla, näppärää!


SyncFu from Dejan Strbac on Vimeo.



SyncFu is a tiny widget for your web shop. It aggregates price concerned visitors in order to achieve mutual volume discounts on your offerings, all according to your own settings.
The discount grows with the group size, proportionally to your pricing. It's an incentive based system, and as everyone gets the last price after the deadline you set, all participants virally share your offers with their friends across social networks.

Health tourism




Health Tourism Magazine is focusing on the whole picture—Destinations. Let’s face it, you can’t successfully engage in health tourism without a fabulous destination at hand. So this month, we are bringing the destinations to you and letting you decide where you would like to travel for the top health procedures and wellness retreats. Whether you prefer Hawaii, Latin America or the Caribbean, “Destination Wellness” has something for everyone. So, dive in and prepare to be carried away ~ to the islands of Hawaii for healing ceremonies, or to Ecuador for the simple beauty contained in the rain forests and lush green lands.

Global Wellness is a booming industry--$ 2 Trillion to be more specific—and is continuing to grow. This is a unique industry that unites wellness with tourism, allowing patients to receive top-quality medical procedures while combining it with first-class spas, preventative care and holistic medicine. Health Tourism Magazine is at the forefront of this movement and is your leading source for cutting edge information and the latest industry trends. Our bi-monthly publication features expert authors within the industry, provides a bi-monthly newsletter with the latest health and wellness news and also conducts interactive interviews with key industry players.

The Health Tourism Magazine is the official publication of the Medical Tourism Association, as well as an official organizer of the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress. This year’s conference will take place in Los Angeles, California from Sept 22nd-24th. A dedicated Spa and Wellness segment will cover innovative topics presented by industry leaders in order to help bridge the gap between traditional healthcare and alternative health and wellness. Topics will include integrative medicine, corporate health, global spa trends, special interest products and investment opportunities.

It is the only international conference this year where you will be able to network with up to 2,000 delegates in 3 short days. At this year’s conference, Health and Wellness professionals will have the unique opportunity to network with other Health and Wellness professionals and learn about other areas in this exciting and evolving industry. Don’t miss out on a fantastic opportunity to learn, grow and expand your network. Register now for the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress at www.medicaltourismcongress.com

About the Author
Chelsea D’Ariano is the Assistant Editor for Health Tourism Magazine. She also serves as the Global Communications Coordinator for the Medical Tourism Association and is involved in managing the Public Relations and Marketing Department of the MTA. Chelsea is also a Contributing Editor for the Medical Tourism Magazine, the sister publication of the Health Tourism Magazine. She can be contacted at

Chelsea@medicaltourismassociation.com.




Terveysmatkailusta tietoa ulkomailta siis tässä lehdessä.

Tulevaisuuden hotellimatkustelua

Tämä voisi ollakin tulevaisuutta. Katso lentävä hotelli - hotel in the clouds

Ajatella jos voisi lentää omalla hotellilla ympäri maapalloa?

tiistai 6. heinäkuuta 2010

Nämä feedit, mitä ne oikeasti ovat?

What are feeds?

I see "RSS", "XML", and "Atom" out there, but I don't know how I might use these links when I find them.
Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere.

What Does This Mean?

You may recognize the universal feed icon or these "chicklets" from your favorite websites, blogs, and podcasts. These icons represent content in any format - text, audio or video - to which you can subscribe and read/watch/listen using a feed reader. What's that?

Why is This a Good Thing?

Technology evolution in online publishing has made it really easy to not only publish regular updates to web-based content, but also keep track of a large number of your favorite websites or blogs, without having to remember to check each site manually or clutter your email inbox. You can now streamline your online experience by subscribing to specific content feeds and aggregating this information in one place to be read when you're ready.

Consumer Bottom Line: Subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review a large amount of online content in a very short time.
Publisher Bottom Line: Feeds permit instant distribution of content and the ability to make it "subscribable."
Advertiser Bottom Line: Advertising in feeds overcomes many of the shortcomings that traditional marketing channels encounter including spam filters, delayed distribution, search engine rankings, and general inbox noise.


How do I read feeds?

If you want to browse and subscribe to feeds, you have many choices. Today, there are more than 2,000 different feed reading applications, also known as "news aggregators" (for text, mostly) or "podcatchers" (for podcasts). There are even readers that work exclusively on mobile devices.

Some require a small purchase price but are tops for ease-of-use and ship with dozens of feeds pre-loaded so you can explore the feed "universe" right away. Free readers are available as well; a search for "Feed reader" or "Feed aggregator" at popular search sites will yield many results. A handful of popular feed readers are listed at the bottom of this page.

A typical interface for a feed reader will display your feeds and the number of new (unread) entries within each of those feeds. You can also organize your feeds into categories and even clip and save your favorite entries (with certain applications).

If you prefer, you can use an online, web-based service to track and manage feeds. Online services give you the advantage of being able to access your feed updates anywhere you can find a web browser. Also, upgrades and new features are added automatically.

How can I publish my own feeds?

If you have a website, blog, audio/video content, or even photos, you can offer a feed of your content as an option. If you are using a popular blogging platform or publishing tool like TypePad, Wordpress, or Blogger, you likely publish a feed automatically. Even other non-blogging sites like social photo-sharing service Flickr offer feeds of content you produce that others can retrieve. There are also tools on the market that can help transform traditional web content into the right format for distribution.

FeedBurner's services allow publishers who already have a feed to improve their understanding of and relationship with their audience. Once you have a working feed, run it through FeedBurner and realize a whole new set of benefits.


And finally, some technical backstory...
The new method for easily distributing online content is often called a web feed and the technical format that makes it possible is called RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, and/or Rockdale, Sandow, and Southern (Railroad) if you trust the good folks at AcronymFinder.com. RSS is based on XML, a widely used standard for textual information exchange between applications on the Internet. RSS feeds can be viewed as plain text files, but they're really designed for computer-to-computer communication.

We should point out that RSS is just one standard for expressing feeds as XML. Another well-known choice is Atom. Both formats have their boosters, and it doesn't appear that consolidation toward a single standard is imminent. However, most feed subscribers simply want fresh content and don't care at all about the underlying protocol. (FeedBurner helps publishers avoid this quandary with our SmartFeed service, which makes any feed format readable on any subscriber device.)

Digital Tourism: the new business

Digital Tourism: the new business