Travel Search Engine Mobissimo Gets Social with Thingfo

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Travel Search Engine Mobissimo Gets Social with Thingfo
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Mobissimo is a travel search engine that acts as an aggregating source for multiple travel sites across the Web. On Mobissimo you can find deals on Priceline, CheapTickets and American Airlines--it really depends on the day and the deals available at the moment. As a real-time meta search engine, there's a sense of immediacy that may be associated with activity surrounding Mobissimo, though that may start to melt away with the introduction of a new segment to its service called MobiFriends.

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What's interesting about this is that there are a handful of sites that already have such community features for their travel planning and management services, but there aren't many that have leveraged a seemingly unrelated (to travel, that is) network for the provision of a community.

In doing so with Thingfo in particular, Mobissimo layers in a redistribution factor that has yet to permeate the online travel industry and extends the networking potential of overlapping travel itineraries beyond those users that are within the MobiFriends network. By tapping into a user's extended network, MobiFriends is also able to provide destination recommendations from existing trusted contacts, for suggesting things like restaurants or activities, based on your travel plans.

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