Comments on: Farecast airfare prediction engine opens public beta today

By: Farecast Now Provides Data On Fairness Of Hotel Pricing

Farecast Now Provides Data On Fairness Of Hotel Pricing — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:55:47 +0000

[...] based Farecast, a startup that launched about 18 months ago to focus on predicting flight prices and guaranteeing users against increases, [...]

By: First Round Capital Invests in Yapta

First Round Capital Invests in Yapta — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:34:13 +0000

[...] Sidestep’s acquisition of TripUp: Yapta, one of the many Seattle-based travel startups (see Farecast and TripHub too), is announcing its second round of venture capital – $2.3 million from First Round [...]

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By: Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta : Forecast-Blog

Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta : Forecast-Blog — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:19:12 +0000

[...] systems (as Expedia and Oribitz are), nor is it essentially a search engine for low fares like Farecast. Instead, they’re using some of the ideas behind del.icio.us and bookmarking to create a [...]

By: Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta

Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:41:55 +0000

By: Yapta Will Be Awesome For Heavy Travelers

Yapta Will Be Awesome For Heavy Travelers — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:09:26 +0000

[...] don’t know what it is about Seattle and travel startups, but newcomer Yapta now joins Farecast and TripHub, two other startups we’ve been tracking from that cold, rainy [...]

By: Beware of Roaming » Blog Archive » Farecast adds 55 cities

Beware of Roaming » Blog Archive » Farecast adds 55 cities — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:08:57 +0000

[...] An interesting side note is that “Farecast seems determined to have an amiable relationship with airlines and it will be interesting to see if they succeed.” from techcrunch’s second coverage. Finally, the search results page is very clean and ajaxy which might have made this my new favorite travel website even without the cool technology. See the coverage. Posted by trikyguy Filed in web2.0 [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Farecast launches for 55 US cities

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Farecast launches for 55 US cities — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:13:58 +0000

[...] Seattle startup Farecast is taking their airfare prediction technology nation wide today, flights departing from 55 US cities are now available for price history, predictions and buy/wait recommendations. The site also offers RSS feeds for automatically tracking fares and predictions over time. We’ve written about Farecast prior to launch and when the beta site first opened. [...]

By: sickofmusic.com » 5 ways to laugh about your startup

sickofmusic.com » 5 ways to laugh about your startup — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:05:38 +0000

[...] 2. Have no shame in pitching your company. I propose a new drinking game: every time you see somebody slide a sidearmed company pitch into a Techcrunch comment, you must take a shot. It usually sounds like, “Wow that’s a great idea, in fact, we’ve been working on LINK HERE for a few months and it incorporates that functionality, and more!” Just today I’ve seen some examples, but I won’t link to you because they’re too blatant. Okay, I lied. [...]

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:07:39 +0000

What a waste of money and talent. Farecast provides common sense answers to simple questions and within very tight limits (2-8 days travel, from Seattle or Boston only, …). Worse, its rules seem to follow what everybody knows: fares are cheapest 3-4 weeks before your flight. Around 2 weeks before a flight they start rising. So time to buy is between 2-3 weeks before your departure. Did this require 22 PhDs? Etzioni and his gang have fooled their VC partners, and done a great job at that!

By: William G.

William G. — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:53:32 +0000

Useless. Shut it down and spend your money elsewhere, Greylock.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:21:02 +0000

Reid, advertising and supplier referral fees in the early going. New features that leverage the predictive technology down the road.

Scott, yeah, service was unavailable for a few minutes due to a nice spike from TechCrunch and others. (It’s been a big day around here.) Hopefully you were able to get right back on.

Mike
Farecast

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 航空料金予測エンジンのFarecast 、本日パブリックベータ版をリリース

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 航空料金予測エンジンのFarecast 、本日パブリックベータ版をリリース — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:35:25 +0000

[...] [原文へ] Farecast [...]

By: Farecast goes into public beta! » Darren Straight’s Blog

Farecast goes into public beta! » Darren Straight’s Blog — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:42:34 +0000

[...] Via: TechCrunch [...]

By: reid

reid — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:08:45 +0000

very cool. but how will they make money?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:14:59 +0000

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

I christen thee the “techcrunch punch” to parallel the “digg effect” or “being slashdotted”.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:57:57 +0000

also, that would be “its staff”, not “it’s”…

By: Khang Toh

Khang Toh — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:10:46 +0000

Guys.. we launched our beta today check us out

By: e-Fuze mobile » Predicting Airfares with Farecast

e-Fuze mobile » Predicting Airfares with Farecast — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:03:32 +0000

[...] A new start-up today opened its doors with a public beta release. Farecast (developed by Oren Etzioni, the head of the University of Washington Computer Scenic Department’s Turing Center and with $8.5 million in venture capital) enables travellers to utilize more than 60 billion records of past airfare prices to help users forecast whether prices will rise or fall in the next week. Farecast plans to provide data across the U.S., though for now only provides information on flights departing from Boston and Seattle. Via Farecast , Web 2.0 ShareThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: kaiju

kaiju — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:02:41 +0000

What a wothless site.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:47:33 +0000

Thanks Jake.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:42:02 +0000

“It’s nice to see data mining applied to more than watching you and I, for a change.”

What’s wrong with this sentence? Calling all junior high school graduates.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:34:00 +0000

Matt, perhaps they are looking for a fifth or sixth.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:29:50 +0000

These guys must be smart….”about 20% of 22 people” is the most sophisticated way of saying “4 or 5″ that I’ve ever heard.

By: John Maloney

John Maloney — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:03:22 +0000

Novel prediction market. See: http://www.pmcluster.com/ -j