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by sudoscience 5237 days ago
I hope this doesn't come across as too negative, but I think it is pretty strange for a blog of a travel aggregator site to say other travel aggregator sites are essentially worthless. Either it stinks of bias or the conclusion is that Mozio is just as non-game-changing and unworthy as these other sites.

FWIW I agree with the trying-too-hard aspect of forcing the square peg of social into a round hole sometimes, but the visualization of Hipmunk is better than Kayak. (I don't use Hipmunk to purchase because I find flights to be significantly cheaper direct from the airlines, however.) If you were used to Hipmunk you would also be loathe to change to new technologies that were marginally, but noticeably better. It is the nature of human "comfort cost" and the reason why poorer, older products still retain customers, at least for some period of time.

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Please point out where in the post I said that these other travel aggregator sites are "essentially worthless". I'd really like to know. If I recall I merely pointed out that I don't see it as noticeably better than kayak. I'm pretty sure this is a direct quote: "Hipmunk is a useful product . . . I want to make that clear."