Week 8, Thing 19: Web 2.0 awards list

For this exercise, I explored Farecast, the 1st place winner in the Travel category. While similar to sites like Expedia and Priceline, which show you what flights are available for specific times and destinations and the associated prices, Farecast has additional features to help interpret these results. It allows you to compare results with Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline. It shows the price range of all available flights and has a graph showing the recent history of price changes. It also includes a prediction of what will happen with the fares and advises whether to buy now or wait. It seems like a handy site which I intend to use for personal trip planning. I don't know how this site would be useful to libraries specifically except for finding the best prices for employee trips to library conferences.