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TripIt is awesome
- far33d 19y agoIt really is. My wife is a booking agent and this site has saved her a TON of time.
- oditogre 19y agoHow do they make money, I wonder?
- zach 19y agoTravel site traffic does monetize pretty easily (cf. TripAdvisor). Their statistical data would be pretty valuable as well, I presume.
- halo 19y agoNo idea, but I can certainly see how they could make money - context sensitive ads in their e-mails. You know where the person is going, for how long and how frequently they make trips, amongst other things.
- jgrahamc 19y agoNice service. Back in 2002 we were doing something like this when I was consulting at Flytecomm. We would suck up people's trip confirmations and parse them (just a whole bunch of regexps in Perl) and spit out detailed information about the trip. Since we had real time flight information (since we had an FAA feed) we could match the reservation to flight legs and do cool stuff like realize your flight is going to be late arriving and that you are missing your connection; then we'd look up alternate flights and send you an SMS message with details. Happy days.
- aditya 19y agoTripIt failed to recognized my itinerary (I suspect discount travel site screwup), but I just used YAPTA and their customer service has blown me away. They took my record locator and harassed the airline twice about getting me a refund in the space of 2 hours. _Every_ startup should blow their customers away like that.
- ntoshev 19y agoIs anyone (besides me) working on statistical mining of structured data from text? There are lots of cool developments in this area lately.
- enonko 19y agoI am. What kind of developments do you think are worth mentioning?
- ssanders82 19y agoI am, for a startup called SmarterReviews.com. It actually parses consumer reviews and quantifies what people are saying about a product (e.g., an IPhone has great screen but bad battery life). I'm very pleased with how it's turning out. Unfortunately, PG turned us down last spring :(
- hwork 19y agoTripIt is on my mind today. First Joel, then I get a TripIt nalgene left over from TechCrunch 40. You've got a hold on me, TripIt.
- pmjordan 19y agoI guess I'm the only one who's slightly worried about privacy issues here?
- wallflower 19y agoIt's all opt-in :)
- wallflower 19y agoTripIt could be a nice orbitz acquistion