Posts Tagged with ‘travelocity’

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 [...]

Today, the announcement of the new Facebook Ads system has been a top story, although I question its ability to successfully market to users without coming across as spam or an invasion of privacy. It may be my favorite soda, but I cannot see myself having Coca-Cola as a Facebook friend just to give them another place to try selling me something.
The way I see it, the best elements to the new system are Beacon and the existing developer [...]

Professional Travel Guide has been a source of travel information for industry professionals. This week it announced that it would be opening its doors as a free service for the public.  It will be offering the public the same information on hundreds of thousands of destinations, accommodations and transportation options that industry pros have had access to since the beginning.
The feature that keeps Professional Travel Guide in the realm of Web 2.0 is the interactive eGuidebook. This lets you [...]