[healthyhippo]

Agreed that its generally backwards looking and at times just strange (urban entrepreneur?? really?), but there were a few points that resonated with me: 1) Conway's point that UI/UX is becoming far more important. Hipmunk seems almost entirely based on taking a crappy UX and turning it into an awesome one; there's lots more room for disruption in other industries as well 2) Point that there's a data issue-- there's tons of social information and monetization strategies are still work-in-process

[Stwerner]

Do you think with all the screen scraping tools we're seeing come out these days, that there will be a lot more of "taking a crappy UX and turning it into an awesome one"? Not talking about to the heights that Hipmunk have taken it, but maybe somewhere between Hipmunk and all the different instant search tools we've seen.