I was in Madrid last Wednesday, January, 30, a the annual meeting of Turismo 2.0, a social network on the Internet, with more than 1.500 members interested in tourism and the web 2.0. Turismo 2.0 is one of the most interesting social networks existing in Spain now.
In this annual meeting which took place at [...]
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