Topic: Travel News - 2008: The year of travel logs and microblogs - Telegraph.co.uk
Travellers’ logs and “microblogging” are tipped to be the online hits of 2008 as the internet becomes the most popular way for people to stay in touch with friends. The dotcom world was dominated this year by Facebook, the social networking website, and copycat services are building on its success. Users type in their travel schedules and link to their friends and colleagues. It allows them to keep track of where they are in the world and enables them to meet up in unexpected places - or watch for who is turning up in their home town in the next few days. The text is limited to a few sentences, leading Twitter’s creators to call it “microblogging”. It was founded by Loic Le Meur, the internet advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. More Travel News
