Airlines cut supply. Demand remains strong. Airlines increase fees. Airlines make profit.
What a concept!
Been busy starting up my new business. About ready to launch. Then I’ll be back.
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With Sabre’s Q2 2006 earnings call scheduled for Thursday, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in writing a guest post on the DCA-3 agreements, the recent spate of announcements by the airlines about the $3.50 booking fee, the content airlines will provide to each distribution network, reduced GDS incentive fees (TWP said last […]
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Zillow, the real estate wunderkind, announced a partnership with Yahoo! in which Zillow’s Zestimates (home value estimates) will show up in Yahoo! search results (as a Shortcut). Here’s the result for ‘home values’ on Yahoo!. Zillow will also be featured in Yahoo’s real estate section (under the ‘what’s my home worth‘ link).
Read the […]
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In case you had any doubt that Google was interested in chasing down higher value vertical search revenue, check out these NYC based sales positions.
Verticals mentioned include: Finance, Travel, Local/Classifieds, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), B2b Industrial Markets, etc.
Seems like a lot Columbia Alums were interested in careers at Google after the recent Google networking reception.
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Fun weekend reading & viewing…
Definitely check out Paul English’s (Paul is co-founder and CTO) post on some of his favorite email comments on the ad campaign (warning: rating is NC-17).
Steve Hafner’s video (found through Mike Fridgen’s Travel Start-Ups) about a trip to Dallas to ‘meet Kayak’s biggest fans’ cracks me up:
And you’ve gotta love this […]
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Can Qixo really claim to be ‘new’ as it does in this Adwords ad which showed up next to my Mobi Newsletter in Gmail (my newsletter email). Hasn’t the company been around since 2000?
Better question…when did Qixo start (or re-start) advertising? Are they aiming for a comeback?
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This is my reaction to Kayak’s $10m advertising campaign…
The online travel industry is really crowded. People already search a number of sites before making a purchase online. Everyone stops at Expedia, Orbitz, or Travelocity. A lot of people check out Southwest or Delta directly. Most people do not know about the […]
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Kayak today launched a 10 million dollar, yes, 10 million dollar TV advertising campaign which includes TV commercials. And it’s not just any advertising campaign…it has the potential to be the talk of the water cooler, go crazy on YouTube, and be on a ton of MySpace pages.
Following is my interview […]
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Here’s the official press release. Here’s my interview with Kayak’s CMO Dean Harris.
The rest of the ads can be found here.
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Vast launched vacation rental search last week covering over 600,000 vacation properties from over 12,000 sites. I love the filtering capabilities (bedrooms, bathrooms, nightly rate, amenities, activities, etc.).
According to the Vast blog:
Vast doesn’t just aggregate a few large vacation rental listings sites: Vast’s web crawl results in more sites and more listings […]
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