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Alan A. Lew - who has written 5 posts on Vagablond.


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Travel Videos: Coming to a PC Near You Now!

Posted on 20 November 2006

Travel videos appear to be the hottest thing on Travel 2.0 websites! This really hit me when, in two days I received announcement of new travel videos from the discount travel agency, Travelzoo.com and from the social travel site Tripmates.com.

Travel Zoo Unleashed Travel Videos currently has three 20-minute long videos up: Washington DC, Atlantic [...]

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Fresh Logic’s Sophisticated & Useful Atlas

Posted on 20 August 2006

The Fresh Logic Atlas is an Ajax-like and Google-like mapping site. There are three tabs at the top right of the screen:

Start: Directions, Email (send an email to Fresh Logic), Search, Toolbox (zoom and map type), Defaults, and Help
Features: Locate with pins Blogs, Events (from Eventful.com), Gas Prices, Movie Theaters, Traffic Notices, and Wifi Hotspots
Services: [...]

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Life Changing Travel –– On Horseback

Posted on 21 July 2006

Relief Riders International offers a longtail, niche tour product that is guaranteed to change lives, including both the lives of the travelers and the people in the destination they visit.

RRI take small groups of travelers (about 15 at a time) on a truly unique experience. They ride by horses for 15 days to remote [...]

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Restaurant on Video: Savory New York

Posted on 18 June 2006

SavoryNewYork.com does video overviews of restaurants in New York City. You can sign up for their newsletter, but I could not find an RSS feed for the videos, so by some definitions this is not really a videocast or podcast.
Savory New York provides detailed information about a wide range of restaurants in New [...]

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Travel Attitudes Magazine for Broadband: Latitudes

Posted on 12 June 2006

Latitudes is National Geographic 2.0 — a gorgeous online travel photo magazine with Italian flare and built for online viewing. A broadband connection is necessary and the latest issue (#14) is 181 pages of sharp full color photos and animations.
Issue #14 covers Columbia, Myanmar, The Berkshire Hills (Massachusetts), Mt. Etna, [...]

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