Two interesting articles about friends and friendship online. Here is the second one published on www.TechCrunch.com

The Meaning of Friendship

I can only imagine the angst that Jessica Vascellero at the Wall Street Journal inserted into countless minds this evening with her article about the difficulties people are having defining what is and isn’t a “friend” for online social networking purposes.

Two interesting articles about friends and friendship online. This first one, by Hal Niedzviecki, was published in the International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com).

One day this past summer, I logged on to Facebook and realized that I was very close to having 700 online "friends." Not bad, I thought to myself, absurdly proud of how many cyberpals, connections, acquaintances and even strangers I'd managed to sign up.

A few weeks ago I found myself in the subway of New York City. Posters and billboards from a prominent bank promoted credit card decaled the underground landscape. These well-crafted advertisements promised ten dollars back for every $100 spent on subway fares. It gave the current economic crisis and recession as the explanation for their incredible generosity and compassion.

Travelindex is now offering free posting of Offers and Special Event Offers on its website under a dedicated "Offers" section that enables small and medium sized businesses to get information out to the travel and tourism professionals and general public in a fast and efficient manner.

Traditional communicating the content of Special Offers is expensive; you can now publish your offers for FREE through Travelindex Offers to get your message out, increase your search engine ranking and drive traffic to your website.

Travelindex is now offering free press release and newswire posting on its website under a dedicated "News" section that enables small and medium sized businesses to get information out to the travel and tourism professionals and general public in a fast and efficient manner.

Traditional press releases or internet advertising is expensive; you can now publish your news releases for FREE through Travelindex News to tell your story online, increase your search engine ranking and drive traffic to your website.

So Google has identified 1 trillion unique URL's on the web but the estimate on the true size of the Google index is "only" 40 billion pages or so! Is your website in the 960 billion sites left out in the cold?

Internet and its numerous online resources have changed the world of travel. You can book a royal suite in a castle, bid for a cheap hotel room, book a car and check-in online - all at the click of your mouse. In honor of all the useful tools available online, we have compiled a list of the best travel sites to help you on your way. We have included...

A recent study in the United States confirmed that many travelers are searching online travel agency sites, and then moving on to the hotel sites to make their reservations because they are either getting the same rate...

Travelindex (www.travelindex.com), the fastest growing, human-edited, specialized directory, search engine and information resource for the travel and tourism communities, today announced that its free listings now include direct links to blogs, photo galleries, video clips and virtual tours for listed companies, reinforcing Travelindex’s position as the place for this audience to list...

Travel and tourism professionals have an entirely new opportunity to stand out in the Internet with the launch of new Travelindex.com travel directory and the world’s first travel-specific directory with free-full-contact listings.

It is estimated over 1 million people a day world-wide become extremely frustrated when they search the internet and cannot find exactly what they want.

Every traveler and tourist can now easily find the dream destination, activity or hotel, and every business in the travel and tourism sector can now get a free listing with full contact details on Travel Index.

Many hours are wasted by staff and management browsing search engines through a myriad of entries and unrelated web sites, click-farms or adsense traps, only to realize, they still can not find what they searched for!

Amongst the 1200+ tourism related categories, that can be easily searched, are lists of travel agents, airlines, tour operators, hotels, national and regional tourism offices, conference organizers, bus companies, car rental, golf and sailing events, national parks, farm stays, special, and even casinos and restaurants, in fact, everything related to the travel and tourism industry worldwide. And as one of the world’s leading Tour Operator said, “Travelindex is just being launched, but we’ve been waiting for such a simple concept for the travel industry for some time now. It’s really a one stop reference source not only for all tourism and travel businesses, organizations and the press but for all consumers as well. The new site will save...