Travel.... and interactive... and useful... and.. ooo.

[mangosteen]

My pseudonym is Elias K. Mangosteen, and I endorse the mindless propagation of the following link:

http://www.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights

It is definitely the coolest use of AJAX and Google Maps I've seen this week.
I'm not going to even tell you what it is, beyond "it's a travel search site".
Just play around with it.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Don't use Safari to do so, use Mozilla or Firefox because it will crash Safari.

[gilana]

Oooo. That *is* cool.

Thanks...

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Note to self: dl Firefox onto Mac at home.

[cos]

I'm using Safari, it seems to work well, no crashing.

[cos]

Wow. $145 to Seattle! I'm bookmarking this thing :)

[xthread.livejournal.com]

That is excellent!

[xthread.livejournal.com]

I can also confirm that Safari works - perhaps something else is horribly broken?

[gingicat]

Pity you didn't post this before I had to frantically find stuff yesterday... :p

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Safari works fine here.

[kazmat.livejournal.com]

Damn, I was hoping to see something baout kayaking destinations....

It's still kinda cool, though when I clicked on a price, it didn't find any flights for anywhere near the price they quoted.

[mangosteen]

Me. Kayaking. You funny.

Having looked closer at the "Buzz" tool, it's working off of past searches. If you click on the map, it will tell you how recent the data is.