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Westin Launches New Mobile Site For Cell-Phone Enabled, Laptop-Disabled Travelers

Westin Hotels just launched a new mobile site at westin.mobi, offering basic functionality like finding hotels, reserving rooms, and checking reservations.

The project is part and parcel of Westin's ongoing efforts to expand their digital offerings, and it also puts the brand in the same category as other hotels with expanded cell-phone friendly offerings. Now they too are available to travelers who head into strange cities with no reservation, no laptop, a last generation smartphone but a functionally limitless bank account. So if you're among that quirky crowd, the Westin family welcomes you.

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Best Western's New Web App Merges Your Photo With Fido's

Similar to those composite photos you get to see what your future baby will look like, Best Western's new Web app shows you what a mix of you and your dog, kitty, monkey, horse or whatever animal would look like. The Best Western Friends Forever Inseparator allows owners to merge their photos with their pets' to see if they share complementary features.

Although we adore our Lhasa apso's cutie nose and scraggly dirty-blond hair, we we'd never wondered how our photos would look superimposed on one another, and we weren't sure why Best Western would offer this novelty Web app. The chain explained:

"Best Western is known for being pet friendly and we wanted to create a fun way for pet owners, and pet travelers, to share their love for their pets,” says Troy Rutman, director of external communications for Best Western. “We hope the application will remind travelers that pets need vacations too!"

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