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SFO*MEDIA publications registered our biggest traffic month ever in November.

Jaunted and HotelChatter logged over 800,000 unique visitors for the month, according to Quantcast, the open Internet ratings service.

While SFO*MEDIA is the largest independent travel blog publisher, what is more impressive to us is to track how we are doing against some entrenched formidable travel media titans. For instance, SFO*MEDIA’s web traffic is larger than that of American Express’s Travel & Leisure.

Go ahead and triangulate the data using your favorite Internet ratings site:

·Quantcast

·Alexa

Sorry to go so long between updates, but we are having a busy summer.

So where are our travel publications showing up these days? Well, it was recently revealed to us that none other than Stephen Hawking is a Jaunted reader. How cool is that? Ditto goes for Dave Barry.

As for HotelChatter, she made an appearance on Good Day New York on Wednesday July 18th.

Other projects? SFO*MEDIA wrapped up consulting work on Starwood’s SPG blog in June, thelobby.com. We helped them start the blog back in April 2006 by providing guidance, advice, and team building. Back then blog consulting was new, these days it is nearly ubiquitous.

Passing along a couple of recent SFO*MEDIA publication press mentions:

· Jaunted in TIME Magazine.

· HotelChatter in today’s NY Times talking about “Hotel as Lifestyle”.

· LA Times calls HotelChatter “A terrific resource for travelers”.

SFO*MEDIA was asked by Slate to participate in TravelBox, a month long special advertising section, much like you see in the monthly travel glossies. The site went live Monday April 9th.

Juliana Shallcross of HotelChatter and Davie Kaufmann of Jaunted will be penning their expert travel tips and advice in the Slate TravelBox section for the next month, so drop by and check it out if you get a chance. The coolest part? Juliana and Davie got to get “cartooned” by Slate artists.

Our publications received a couple of mentions in the April monthlies.

In an effort to be timely, seasonal, and because the mentions are not readily available online just yet, we will send you on an egg hunt, of sorts.

Go to your local newsstand and see if you can find us in:

·The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, April 2007
·Real Simple Travel, Special Issue (April + May)

HotelChatter recently concluded an incredible two week series breaking down the Buenos Aires hotel scene. Check it out if you get a chance.

Meanwhile, Jaunted is once again mapping and recapping the Amazing Race course.

The March 2007 issue of Outside Magazine named HotelChatter one of “Eight Indispensable Travel Innovations”.

London NYC hotel scuttlebutt on Page Six, via HotelChatter.

Read HotelChatter’s London NYC Hotel commentary prequels and postscripts to get properly educated on the topic.

On January 24, SFO*MEDIA’s Mark G. Johnson was a panelist at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles.The panel tackled the question: “How are hoteliers responding to the growing popularity of ‘Social Networking’ on the web.”

Also on the panel: Robin Ingle of TripAdvisor, Robin Korman, of Starwood, and Colleen Rhattigan of IgoUgo.

Jeff Weinstein, Editor and Chief, Hotels Magazine moderated. The sombreros pictured above were included.

On January 9th HotelChatter published a story we were tipped off to. The next day the story was filed in the NY Post’s infamous Page Six.

Very cool, even cooler, they credited their source. Of course, a link would have been even better, but we aren’t complaining.

Oh, and if you want to see what hotel tipsters were saying about Britney Spears and her wig, go read about it here.

And you thought working at a hotel was a recipe for failure to thrive? Hardly.

Hotel guests, workers, developers and visitors are the center of the universe. Um, at least our universe.