There are lots of travel guides and tourist books around but they’re generally written by expert writers or a country’s own tourist board so to get the views of ordinary people who have been there as well as people who live there gives a great personal insight. Read more
I must be one of the luckiest people around. I’ve travelled a bit both for business and pleasure purposes but I’ve never had the misfortune to be eaten alive by bedbugs! I’m not quite sure what the people behind this site hope to achieve but I suppose they are providing a public service of some kind. Having said that I do think their mission to "report and follow bedbug information around the world" could be just slightly bordering on the over ambitious. There are a number of ways of interpreting the activity (or lack of it) on the site and some are ... Read more
If you love travelling but don’t want to join the usual crowds jostling to see the famous landmarks and attractions of the world then this site can provide a whole host of places you won’t find in the brochures. Read more
In this day and age with the internet being what it is planning a trip is certainly a lot easier. Gone are the days when you either bought all the guide books yourself or borrowed them from a library. All you need to do now is tap in the destination and a whole mine of information is revealed. Read more
There has been plenty of talk about this travel site in recent months with a successful round of fundraising and a revamp completed in February of this year (2011) and more recently a partnership deal signed with The New York Times. Read more
I ran video and DVD stores for years and must have been asked a hundred times what my favorite film of all time is. Eventually I just settled on Apocalypse Now to save the argument. It is pretty easy to pick about twenty or so of my all time favorites but it was hard to narrow it down to just the one. I should have just put them on to Flickchart. It's a movie review tool delivered in the most beautiful of interfaces that allows you to pick and rank your 'Best Movies of All Time' as well as presenting ... Read more
Criticker is a very useful movie review tool that you can connect up to your social network. But not just any movie review tool. It aims to match you up with people with similar taste to your own to enhance your movie watching experience. While it would be easy to just recommend films to you, Criticker prefers to analyze your viewing past to pit you in touch with people that could guide your viewing future. Criticker aims to match you with the people who share your taste in film most exactly by using the Taste Compatibility Index. With TCI ... Read more
There are so many movie apps on the Internet these days that any new ones have to be pretty special to grab my attention. Usually they are just fairly anonymous outlets for the studios to regurgitate their stories and reviews and not a lot else. The things that set Flixster apart from the others are two simple words - Rotten Tomatoes. If you aren't familiar with RT it is getting a reputation for honest reviews and is comparable to IMDB in it's information well. So, Flixster plus Rotten Tomatoes gives you a movie review tool that is a serious contender. ... Read more
Businesses selling online can often suffer from a couple of negative issues one of which is supposed to overcome the other. Read more
When it comes to customer reviews for most businesses they can be very useful but usually only come from one direction. In the case of staff agencies, be they permanent or temporary, they are exposed on two fronts. Read more