The emergence,
the evolution of Web 2.0 and all of the fascinating collaborative, latticed, Web-based applications that it promises
ARE just about as thrilling a development in the history of the Internet as the first browser itself. Mashups and blogs
and Flickr and on and on and on. I hardly profess to be an expert on the matter, but I try and pay attention to what’s
happening as best I can, and when something happens in the area of travel, I feel compelled to post about it. Now I am
not saying this is some big, revolutionary idea, but it is interesting.
You know how Kayak.com and the other aggregators have made shopping for flights a lot easier. I now use
these services on a regular basis. But they do have some short-comings when it comes to flexibility. That is, the
consumer has never had the power to quickly and at a glance evaluate the cheapest days to fly nor the cheapest
destinations to fly to. You always have to click on "day previous" or some such thing to see how much you can
knock off the price by flying a day earlier or later.
Well, a new company that has not yet opened it’s doors
will soon iron out some of these issues, at least, that’s the read I get from this post over at TechCunch.
The company is called Flyspy, run by Robert Metcalf, and it promises to reverse engineers some of the process here
and help makes it extremely transparent.