by Minter Dial | Mar 23, 2009 | Marketing, Social Media
The battle of the travel space has moved to the social media space, at least in Europe. In November 2008, Air France/KLM launched its Bluenity social media site, joining the Thalyseo site for train travellers on continental Europe (between Marseille and Amsterdam). ...
by Minter Dial | Mar 22, 2009 | Sports
Saturday, March 21st 2009 was a great day for Six Nations rugby. Each game seemed to have something riding on it. There was some great rugger. The end of a 61-year journey. Some pride recuperated (France). Two away wins. Some things better left unsaid (Italy). Aside...
by Minter Dial | Mar 21, 2009 | Travel
My sharp-witted friend, David (arigato gozaimasu), sent me this stunning news: you can buy this 30-room castle, plus several other buildings and 15,000 square meters of surrounding land for just over 1.1 million euros. Here is the story. The château in question is the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 19, 2009 | Marketing
Listening to Apple’s videocast of the opening speech at this year’s MacWorld 2009, I heard that Apple stores around the world receive 3.4 million visitors per week. Via a separate source, I see that Apple had 251 stores as of the end of calendar year 2008...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...