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Archive for August, 2006
Guest Commentary by Mike Fridgen of Farecast - Shifting Power In The Travel Industry
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I made a call for guest commentary on the changing travel industry landscape. I hope this post by Mike Fridgen is just the first in a series of primers on current events shaping the industry. Thanks for working on this, Mike!
If you’re a travel industry executive interested […]

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Google Checkout - The GDS of eCommerce
Monday, August 21st, 2006

Safa Rashtchy’s note today on Google reads like analyst notes I’ve read for the last couple years about the contentious relationship between travel supplers and online travel agents (OTAs)/Global Distribution Systems (GDSs).
In my first interview for ComparisonEngines, Brian Barth, the former CEO of SideStep explained “through working with us, [travel suppliers] develop closer […]

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Travel Search - Farecast
Monday, August 21st, 2006

-The first thing everyone mentioned about Farecast this morning was the nationwide expansion. A secondary point (if it was even mentioned) was the addition of RSS feeds for particular city pairs for a particular date (in other words, information on the trip you want to take). This should have been the lead story. […]

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Travel Search at TechCrunch Party
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

To me, Michael Arrington’s Tech Crunch is all about Web 2.0…whatever Web 2.0 means…seems to change by the hour (although I like how Gartner recently ‘defined’ it).
Anyways, I was surprised to find out that both Farecast and Mobissimo are sponsoring the TechCrunch August Capital Party this Friday (bidding for remaining tix on eBay is up […]

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