by: Mike Fridgen, VP of Marketing & Product Development
UPDATE 8/9/06: Thanks to PodTech.net for posting the video presentation from Gnomedex.
Thanks again to Chris and Ponzi for inviting us to share how the blogging community helped Farecast reach thousands of new users during our private and public beta launch.
demos at gnomdex…
second life - is cool. ip treatment is interesting. story of tringo guy - who made game that is a bingo + tetris. licensed it to nintendo. second life sees none of this. virtual economy is interesting too. i want……
What is the revenue model for farecast? Advertising on the site or eventually some sort of subscription/membership fee based service?
Rick, thanks for stopping by. We plan to make money on advertising and supplier referral fees in the short term.
was waiting for predictive technology to kick in.really superb way to save the $5 bucks i pay extra for a fare that am not even sure is gonna be the best bargain (even 71%!!). WAY TO GO FARECASTERS…
am working on a startup in these lines..your site is such an inspiration..
[...] Farecast has a good blog post tearing down traffic and blog posts as they launched. They say “TechCrunch and BattelleMedia drove coverage in NY Times”. My only thought is, why would anyone care about NYT coverage? [...]
[...] (Source: Data gathered internally and from Farecast Blog) [...]
This is really interesting and helpful for you to share your blogging info with others. Good luck with Farecast! BTW, when will you be offering your services in Asia? I buy almost all my airfare online…and would love to save some whenever possible. Cheers.