Monthly Archives: October 2011
How Hotels and Travel Companies Are Nailing Social Media
Via Scoop.it – Digital Developments in Hospitality
It might be scary to share all your online reviews, but some hotel and travel destinations have embraced social media chatter – good and bad – and seen surprising results.
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Google Maps rolls out business interiors in Street View
by Meghan Kelly
Google is taking its Street View feature indoors. The company announced last May it would be taking interior shots of stores, but now it is moving out of its pilot phase with more 360 degree interiors cropping up online.
Street View on Google Maps has provided many hours of novel entertainment in looking up houses, friends’ houses, your elementary school, that park you fell asleep in that one time. But satisfying a small bit of voyeurism is not all Street View can accomplish.
Now Google is using these images as a marketing tool for businesses that want to show off their interiors.
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