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22 Aug

BlogWorld 2010 Discounts

On October 14th, 2010, the worlds largest new media event will take place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nv., BlogWorldExpo.

The event will be joined by thousands of bloggers, podcasters, social media pro’s, internet and tv personalities, and more!

And because we like sharing, Bubblicious would like to offer our readers a special 20% discount off of registration by using the code BUBVIP. The code is good for any pass to the BlogWorld and New Media Expo. Published discount pricing ends September 15th at midnight, but don’t stress! This code applies to the pricing all the way up until the event. So register now! By going here for your conference pass and discount prices.

Discount Hotel accomodations are already filling up quickly. So make sure to share this link to the Official Hotels of the event to get your discounted pricing.

Make sure to check out BlogWorldExpo’s Official Blog for the latest announcements!

8 Apr

Hotelicopter Takes Flight Today. In Search.

April Fools day was an entire week ago, but we’re still learning of some of the hoaxes that we fell for on the 1st of the month. Remember that photo of a giant helicopter that doubled as a flying hotel? The hotelicopter turned out to be real, but as a hotel search engine instead of a flying cruise ship.

The hotelicopter’s engine aggregates search queries from over 30 different hotel search websites in order to give you a free, comparative review of hotel prices. The search is done in real time, and displays hotel room rates, availability, photos and videos in order to provide a multi-layered and media-centric approach to helping you find the right hotel and the right price.

This aggregate search engine is achieved through its 65 travel partners, and access to a database of 150,000 hotels. Hotel bookings are done through hotelicopter’s partnership with hotel chains as well as independent hotels, through Hotelier Suite extranet. So instead of going to a single website that searches several hotels, or opening up multiple tabs in order to compare your own prices for diffrent hotel search sites, take the one-stop approach at hotelicopter.

Another added benefit to the newly revealed hotelicopter is its integration with Facebook Connect, giving users easy access to the hotelicopter service (if they’re an existing Facebook user), as well as the ability to share travel plans as recommendations to friends. This works both ways, as others can look at your previous activity to get ideas on their own hotel search.

The icorporation of Facebook Connect is important as it takes hotelicopter into the realm of direct recommendations to an existing social graph. I think in partnering with other services to expand within the travel booking realm, as well as with platforms such as Facebook Connect, hotelicopter can take a broader approach to recommendations given the type of data it’s collecting from its users. This is all valuable information for itself as well as for its partner sites, as it acts as an aggregator that segues between thes traight search and data providers and the socially driven users.

12 Nov

An Evening in New York Part II

by Brian Solis

Prior to the BizSpark party hosted by Microsoft and TechSet at One Little West 12 in the Meat Packing District, I decided to pay another visit to the rooftop of the popular Gansevoort Hotel.

The partially cloud-covered skies served as another backdrop for awe-inspiring views.

Hudson River

Buddakan Restaurant

Part One

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11 Nov

An Evening in New York, Through Pictures

by Brian Solis

I’m in New York, preparing for this evening’s Ignition hosted by Microsoft Bizspark and TechSet. Make sure to RSVP here, it’s free and a can’t miss event.

I arrived yesterday in NYC towards the latter part of the evening. The night was too beautiful to not capture. It glowed with a soft radiance of the lights reflecting off the low hanging clouds, which created a hauntingly romantic setting.

The Dream Hotel also is a setting in of itself. I didn’t have to leave the hotel for this photo walk.

I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story…

A View from the Rooftop

Lobby at The Dream

Desk at Dream Hotel

Hallway Painting

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16 Oct

Los Angeles Tweetup @W, Westwood

by Brian Solis

The W Hotel, Westwood

I flew to Los Angeles for 24 hours to serve as the lunch keynote speaker at PR 2.0: Breaking into the Conversation. Following the event, and a full day of work, a few of us decided to host an impromptu Tweetup in The Backyard, poolside at the W Hotel in Westwood. It was a beautiful night, which was complemented with some very incredible people.

I’ll let the pictures the rest of the story…