TripSay’s fantastic new hotel booking feature
TripSay recently introduced a fantastic new feature to their web service – hotel bookings. The feature in itself is nothing exciting (they’re even using booking information from booking.com only), but it’s the way they’ve implemented it, that’s fantastic.
You’re essentially searching on top of a map of the city you’re about to visit and tools let you easily drill down the number of results shown on the map by dates, stars, budget and location. Hotels matching your search result are shown as markers on the map including the average price per night, giving you a fantastic overview of what’s available in the target city.
One fantastic functionality is to center the location of your search around a specific sight or location.
If you haven’t already tried it, you should. I know I won’t be using anything else for all of my hotel bookings from here forward.
Of course even the best can be made even better. Markers could be slightly smaller, as you get a lot of overlap when you’re browsing a city with loads of hotels.
Kudos to the team. This rocks!
Adobe just got f#%& by Apple
Ouch. If that does not hurt, I don’t know what does. After introducing iPhone OS 4.0, Apple updated it’s developer user agreement to disallow AppStore submissions that link to API’s through intermediary translation (in effect, not written directly in Objective-C, C, C++ or JavaScript).
This essentially means that Apple won’t accept any apps submitted to the AppStore created with Flash CS5 or any of the other not yet released ways of publishing for the iPhone. Hundreds and hundreds of man work months down the drain.
“Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).”
This comes three days before the introduction of CS5. The main USP for Flash CS5 before today was that it was able to compile for the iPhone OS. Would love to be a fly on the wall of Adobe’s executive team.
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f#%& Apple. Steve Jobs is an obstructionist and karma will bite him in the ass
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