Web 2.0 Award winners
August 27, 2007
Many of these I am intimately familiar with already, so despite the temptation to take the easy way out (hee!) I decided to list them, then explore something new.
Craigslist- I’ve used this to sell extra concert tickets, and to buy tickets to a Chelsea match while in London. Craigslist is great if you don’t have the patience for eBay.
Going - This isn’t one of the “Events” winners, but its one I use occasionally - similar kind of thing for New York. Great to find off-the-beaten-path kind of stuff.
Frappr – I stumbled across this one day, can’t remember how, and found a map of people who lived in my college dorm, which was in the Ohio State Stadium and no longer exists. I reunited with a good college friend!
Yahoo Answers - I usually use this when trying to find out the answer to something and googling it. Recently I learned how to dial 911 in another city (ex. you’re in Baltimore and someone you know needs help in Naples what do you do? Answer: You’re probably screwed. But Yahoo Answers explained it better.
Zillow - A great tool to figure out your house worth.
Threadless - Great t-shirt site, I also like onehorseshy.com and of course cafepress.com
Facebook – Just discovering MySpace? Better catch up, Facebook is way hotter.
You Tube – I’m not sure a day goes by that I DON’T use YouTube for something.
So for today, I decided to look at the Travel Winner, Farecast.
At first, I wasn’t super impressed, but after spending some time there, I will try to remember to use it again. I often search Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia to see who has the best fare options – in my experience, Orbitz usually comes out on top, and Farecast proves this. But having them all in one place makes it easy. I can see how this, and all travel sites are useful in the library, as many folks might be planning a trip still vaguely unaware of them. Travel websites are great! I can’t imagine how we did it before!
August 28, 2007 at 4:16 am
Farecast is an interesting service, but there are limitations to it.
One limitation which is not immediately obvious is that Farecast does not cover all airlines. For example, you will not find any fares there from Southwest, Allegiant or Skybus. Additionally, sometimes the airlines offer special deals only on their own websites which never make it into the database which Farecase uses.
I personally have found that a much more useful site is Airfarewatchdog.com. These guys search thousands of fares by hand every day to come up with the best possible deals. They cover all of the discount carriers as well as specials listed only on airline websites. Plus you can sign up for a daily newsletter which let’s you know about the best fares from your city.
Worth checking out…
September 10, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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