Posts Tagged with ‘expedia’

Rumors started circulating earlier in the week, but today, Microsoft confirmed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that it purchased Seattle-based Farecast at a rumored purchase price of over $75 million USD. Farecast has also confirmed the sale on their blog.
Farecast is a nifty little application that attempts to help you judge when the best time is to buy your airline tickets. They are also beta testing a version that does the same for hotel rooms. By entering your travel [...]

A new online travel site is launching Monday. Before you add to the collective groan, know that Zicasso isn't like other travel sites, and is really worth checking out.
Geared to fill a gap in online trip planning, Zicasso wants to make travel planing much more personalized and hassle-free. Combining online convenience with offline providers, they offer a new way to book travel, leaving you able to book your travel at 3 AM while still having the services offered by online [...]

The holiday season is upon us, so I thought it appropriate to review a very effective and cool service called Tripit . Tripit it is not a brand new site, but it has added some great new features that can make trip planning drop dead easy.
Essentially, all anyone has to do is forward their travel confirmation emails to Tripit and the system automatically builds a master itinerary for the user. Everything the traveler needs is essentially provided for them [...]

Ever wonder if anyone else is thinking what you're thinking? Wonder no more with two recent launches that bring polling and community together.
MegaBuzz, which beta launched 20 March, creates a game framework around its polls to create more buzz. Users can create their own polls or picks, gaining points for others taking polls or making choices in your picks, with any buzz item created that gets 500 or more players earning an automatic prize. Other ways to win prizes are [...]