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By: Acne

Acne — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:01:28 +0000

I think ultimately FareCompare will have to partner with providers. This is often the business model of these types of sites anyway. They promote themselves, go viral, and then pour on the ads or partnership deals.

Sites that try to do that to start often find they don’t gain readership as fast as they would if they otherwise stayed independent for a period of time.

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:38:06 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Dwayne. Tripmates definitely has some promise. There are several partnering opportunities for them as well it would seem…

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:53:15 +0000

Aaron,
I checked out tripmates after reading the previous entries. I agree that this is the future of travel information- social networks meshed with valuable user-generated travel content. The google maps are a nice touch. Will be using tripmates when I travel- haven’t seen anything very similar (other than sites like trip advisor and virtual tourist- which are a little boring for my taste).

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Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:01:29 +0000

[...] Why book a United airline ticket and a Hilton hotel on Expedia when I’m “guaranteed” to get the best price by booking directly with the supplier.� I have to punch in my credit card number twice?� Big deal.� Plus, if I’m part of the suppliers loyalty program I can usually get some bonus points/miles by doing so.� Expedia does have some great shopping tools though; so I use their site, but they don’t get my business.� Add to that a collection of “Travel 2.0” sites that are in the works and suddenly using agency sites to shop price starts to lose its draw as well. [...]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:28:13 +0000

Laurent-

Thanks for the comments. Tripmates looks great from a 2.0 type perspective. From what I can tell they are going to try and make a revenue model out of advertising, which isn’t an easy thing to do. My hunch would be that their exit strategy involves selling to someone like Yahoo! (think a mix of Yahoo! Travel, Flickr and MySpace). Could have some legs, especially if group travel continues to grow as it is now.

Travnues looks like they haven’t really come up with any real ideas/products yet. Web 2.0 is more than trendy technology and marketing jargon, it’s collaboration, community and trust and is independent of the technology that enables it.

Craig Newmark of Craigslist had this definition :
“Web 2.0″ means a lot of things to different people. In my favorite sense, it refers to sites which are run in a culture of trust, where the users form a community which runs the site. As David Weinberger says, it’s a site about “us” (the community) not so much about �them� (the nominal owners). You might observe that this is a return to the values of the early ‘net and Web, kinda Web 0.0.�

By: Laurent

Laurent — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:35:45 +0000

Nice writeup on Travel 2.0. I agree that we have to take caution on the hype, but
it is also about time that incumbent travel companies sit up and take notice of the trends in usability, collaboration and analytics that are shaking traditional e-commerce.

I am doing a short study for my company on travel and web2.0, and I found only a few companies and individuals actively thinking about such community-driven travel sites.

Have you checked out tripmates? I think this is the future of group travel + travel-diaries. There are now quite a few recent B2C startups working on community and analytics driven ideas.

On the other hand, does anyone know of any travel technology companies that have sprung up recently to launch �travel 2.0? applications and frameworks? The only one I could find was Travenues a startup in India, that is still working on its products. The Travenues site has a formal definition of travel 2.0 that is pretty interesting.