eddmc

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by eddmc 10y ago
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 carriers. I'd suggest making use of one of these rat
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by eddmc 12y ago
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 could install your own plumbing, write your own t's and
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 went out with the '90's Source: I&#x2
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The scale or pivot paradox for travel startups – there is another way(tnooz.com)
1 points by eddmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 plagued by Trip planning startups that do
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 this out? There's probably a catalogue they wou
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 into the size, and the site could tell me what tyre size
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23 Different Values vs. Underscore.js is* Functions(blog.pluralsight.com)
1 points by eddmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 needs, and in the long-term there will be a cost saving. I appr
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 is 'airline hosting'.
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 industry ;-) http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Landing-Contest-Profit
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by eddmc 13y ago
The hosting company that American Airlines uses is Sabre This is the same company used by Virgin America, US Airways, JetBlue and Alaska Airlines
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 going to hit depending on growth over time. Someone below said
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by eddmc 13y ago
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 value of what it is you're providing. For example, Heap will be
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by eddmc 14y ago
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 concept submitted to for the 2012 James Dyson Awards. Unf
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by eddmc 14y ago
I use a Chrome extension from www.sessionbuddy.com to retrieve tabs if Chrome unexpectedly crashes. I've found it pretty useful
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WhatsApp accused of breaking privacy rules(ft.com)
2 points by eddmc 14y ago|0 comments
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Expedia starts testing natural language travel search Big Data-style(tnooz.com)
1 points by eddmc 14y ago|0 comments
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by eddmc 14y ago
Microsoft had a social network. It was called MSN Messenger. Of course, they killed it This effort looks like another Zune
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by eddmc 14y ago
Another site for budget airlines is travelfusion.com They also have an API
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by eddmc 14y ago
Your link should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet Interesting stuff!
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by eddmc 14y ago
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 system, and get on with building your company! One thing I
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by eddmc 14y ago
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 simple] but then I saw Helen's comment below your blog post and
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by eddmc 14y ago
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 than pay for the site itself, and we can easily switch advertis
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by eddmc 15y ago
It's horses for courses. I like to get into the coding straight away. If what's happening is not immediately obvious to me, I'll start reading around the area I don't understand until I do understand it. Once I've tried a few set examples o
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by eddmc 15y ago
I like your feature request of showing my (up/down) voting history within my HN profile.
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by eddmc 15y ago
I agree that points on old stories would be useful as it helps in search results - I find myself searching for stuff on HN quite frequently. Today, I was looking into a way of publishing software contracts to clients online so they could si
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Sabre to open app center to developers for agency desktop(tnooz.com)
1 points by eddmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by eddmc 15y ago
Agree with this point, and here's a suggestion about one way of doing this. You have a set of users who you believe are now using a competitor. Put a survey together specifically for these users. You need to ask them a mixture of questions
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Internet cut off across Syria amid widespread protests(thenextweb.com)
74 points by eddmc 15y ago|13 comments

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