Hotwire's New Trip Watcher Tracks Flight, Car and Hotel Prices

GeekSugar — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:44 -0700

As much fun as planning a trip can be, there's always so much stress and worry when it comes to prices. Am I getting a deal? Will flight prices go down? Should I book last minute? Another reason why I absolutely love technology - enough with the travel booking stress! Farecast and Kayak are great for getting price alerts on flights, but what if you want an alert service that basically acts as your own travel agent, you've got to check out Hotwire's latest feature (it just launched yesterday!) Trip Watcher.

With Trip Watcher you can watch specific travel itineraries and get email alerts about price drops for hotel rooms, car rentals and airfares. Just input dates (can be up to a sixty day range), destination, possible airports and Trip Watcher will compare them with all of their Hotwire itineraries. Once your Trip Watcher page is set up (you can include up to 25 trips), there will be a running history of your requested dates and destinations, plus the prices changes for each!

The Corporations Behind Facebook's Beacon

GeekSugar — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:00:04 -0800

Now that we know all about Beacon, Facebook's online marketing initiative, we can feel better knowing that Facebook is striving to respect their users' privacy.

Yeah right! The only difference now is that you can opt-in or out of having your purchasing info listed on your profile, although your buying habits are still being tracked by third-party sites. Wondering what these sites are?

Thanks to The Consumerist, who has posted the full list of companies participating in Beacon, we can learn who the culprits are that are fueling the fire so to speak.

For the entire list of companies, read more

AllPosters.com
Blockbuster
Bluefly.com
Busted Tees
CBS Interactive (CBSSports.com & Dotspotter)
Citysearch
CollegeHumor
echomusic
ExpoTV
Gamefly
Hotwire
iWon
Joost
Kiva
Kongregate
LiveJournal
Live Nation
Mercantila
National Basketball Association
NYTimes.com
Overstock.com
Pronto.com
(RED)
Redlight
SeamlessWeb
Sony Online Entertainment LLC
Sony Pictures
STA Travel
The Knot
TripAdvisor
Travel Ticker
Travelocity
TypePad
viagogo
Vox
Yelp
WeddingChannel.com
Zappos.com