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Pocket Protectors in Paris: Novotel and Microsoft Team Up for a Techie-Tastic Room

Where: 257 rue de Vaugirard, Paris, France, 75015

If you're into World of Warcraft and LAN parties, make note of what may be the world's most techie-tastic hotel room. Located miles away from the Valley (that's Silicon, not mall world), Paris' Novotel Vaugirard-Montparnasse has teamed with Microsoft to unveil a room kitted out with electronic perks such as a SENSORIT digital mirror, a multitasking piece of decor that allows guests to primp as they simultaneously check news.

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Would You Post Your Latest Hotel Deal to Facebook? Yapta Hopes You Will

Apparently someone at Yapta heard that Orbitz has a Facebook application and, over the strong advice of Hotelchatter sister site Jaunted, decided that they had to have a Facebook presence too.

The Yapta tool, like the Orbitz application, allows you to grab your travel deals on their site and then push them to your Facebook stream. We're frustrated by this kind of social media nonsense for the same reason we remain skeptical of hotel iPhone applications: nobody uses those things for that.

Your average traveler books flight or hotel deals for themselves and their families. Occasionally - occasionally - they'll be traveling with a friend and they'll swap confirmation emails so everyone's on the same page. But it's difficult to imagine a context where people would share financial and travel details with their network. (Unless you are want people to know what you consider to be too much for a hotel room.) There are very real privacy concerns since most people's networks are littered with people they met at parties, college classmates they never got around to unfriending, and the like.

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