http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T21:35:36Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Social%20Networking http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/1/23940/78613 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/citizenmsocialnetwork_pic.png" class="imgborder"> <p>Lately, we've been pondering the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/17/16043/7510/hotels/Hotels_and_Social_Networking_Sketchy_or_Seriously_Innovative_">utility, acceptance and sketch-potential</a> of social networks within hotels. It's not necessarily hotels' Facebook or MySpace pages we're concerned with here (although some hotels are doing good stuff with those things, and hooray for them!). <p>We mean hotels who set up their <i>own</i> networks -- sort of like the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pod+Hotel/local/189">Pod Hotel's</a></b> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_2_0">Pod Community</a> Blog -- where people who are staying in a particular hotel at a given time can communicate with each other and find other same-time guests to meet up with, hang out with, or "et cetera" with. Will people buy into the concept? Will it turn out to be a sketchy Craiglist-esque collection of people advertising for Jenna 2008-08-01T10:00:02-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/