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What is your specific use case? I used to work managing API's for one of the GDS companies For screen scraping, there are a number of companies that do this already for multiple ca…

Or you could start using a good travel agent, as they would do these things for you. Is this a good time investment for you? You have a choice on what you spend your time on. You c…

A lot of travel agents are genuine flight experts. If you don't believe that then you haven't spent much time with good travel agents. Also, it's not about the commissions. That we…

Is there any other open-sourced trip planning code? The main one I could find on github is OpenTripPlanner [ https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner ] The travel industry is p…

Car make / model - there's only a finite set of these. Take a look at the categories on Autotrader or something similar. Tire Sizes - ask your local mechanic how they would find th…

This is the first thing I thought about too. I have no idea what size the tires on my car are. But I do know the make, model (and year) of my car. I'd rather enter these details in…

Isn't there an opportunity to consolidate what the IT needs really are with the US Airways merger? "Integration costs" can be allocated to supporting what the business actually nee…

Yes, you're right. Hosting has a different meaning in the software industry - the correct term is 'Airline reservations system' but the colloquial term used in the travel industry …

A really interesting book I read about this is Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr. This contains more than just a history of Sabre. I read it more because I work in the travel ind…

The hosting company that American Airlines uses is Sabre This is the same company used by Virgin America, US Airways, JetBlue and Alaska Airlines

Keep the pricing message simple. I'm not a fan of variable pricing - I like to know what the monthly cost is going to be beforehand. I appreciate tiers where I can see what I'm goi…

I'm not saying that Heap have got the pricing right but you should absolutely NOT look at cost when you put pricing together - rather, you need to ask your customers about the valu…

I'm not saying that Heap have got the pricing right but you should absolutely NOT look at cost when you put pricing together - rather, you need to ask your customers about the valu…

Here is a more realistic attempt at improving the airplane experience for economy class passengers: http://www.jamesdysonaward.org/Projects/Project.aspx?ID=2634... This is a design…

I use a Chrome extension from www.sessionbuddy.com to retrieve tabs if Chrome unexpectedly crashes. I've found it pretty useful

Microsoft had a social network. It was called MSN Messenger. Of course, they killed it This effort looks like another Zune

Another site for budget airlines is travelfusion.com They also have an API

Your link should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet Interesting stuff!

I agree with the premise of this article. Entreporn is something that almost everyone I know who works for themselves has gone through. The important thing is to get it out of your…

Here's a suggestion for your value proposition: Collaborative notetaking made simple. I actually started with a more complicated sentence [Real-time collaborative editing made simp…

I totally agree with this last point. I help run a small sailing website. We have no ads on our site, but we send out regular email newsletters that contain ads. These ads more tha…