fluttza.com Blog

TripAdvisor®, the world’s most trusted source of travel advice, announced recently the top 10 dirtiest hotels for 2010, based on TripAdvisor® traveler ratings for cleanliness.

ComScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, just released a study on growth in the global search market for 2009 and showed that searches have grown 46% globally.

If you’re like me and have become disenchanted with the social bookmarking site Digg, ever since they did away with their “shout” function last year, apparently we are not alone. While Digg’s unique visitors ended 2009 at 27 million, by December, this was a marked decline from its it 32 unique visitors in September.

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which manifests itself in disturbing flashbacks, nightmares, paranoid behavior, and expressions of anger and hostility, had been medically diagnosed by empirical methods and by, essentially, ruling everything else out.  Until now.

The last I heard, the yet-to-be-released Apple tablet/ iSlate ticket price was rumored at $1000.

Yamaha’s five new and improved PAS series electric motor-assisted bicycles are aimed at women, students and urban non-drivers.

Back in September, I predicted that Twitter would acquire oneforty.com, ” the Twitter Store of Apps ,” where one could shop to his or her heart’s content for any app under the Twitter sun. Not only did that prediction come to past, but today, oneforty is juggling the launch of its Premium Twitter App marketplace with a $1.85 million dollar round of funding.

In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

His name is Cashmore, but is his company cashable? Might Mashable , the number Social Media Blog in the world entertain an offer from AOL?

The big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (January 7-10) was 3-D TVs. While Steve Ballmer’s introduction of his new Microsoft Tablet is expected to compete head-on with Apple’s launch of their new iSlate/Tablet in March, it appears that the influence of the movie Avatar’s 3-D technology is stretching from the large screen to the small screen.