This Week in Hotels: June 27th, 2010 [Video]

Guillaume (from Hotel Blogs) and I are going to start doing a weekend video chat, spending 10-15 minutes discussing a few news items that caught our attention during the week.

Here’s the first episode:

In it, we discuss:

* Does Twitter encourage complaints? Does that matter?
* OTAs bid on hotel’s names in PPC – what should you do about that?
* How to filter the gold from the noise in social media

We would love your feedback: what do you like and not like about this first episode? What types of content would you like included? How can we make this better?

Startup Profile: Zemanta [Video Interview]

While at Blog World I had the chance to interview Andraz Tori, co-founder and CTO of Zemanta. Here’s his explanation of how the service works:

If you’re publishing a blog or similar website, you should definitely check them out. You can learn more at Zemanta.com.