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Idea for someone
Posted by Rod in Old-blog-archives at 8:31 pm on Tuesday, 3 January 2006

All travel agents should send your itinerary as a series of Calender items.

I got back a multi-stop trip and to enter it in will take 15 minutes.  I need to keep switching time zones, work out the flight duration, put in hotels. Sucks!

So, a web site that makes it easy to bulk enter a complex trip, flights in timezones, hotels and then generates the vCalender, iCal files for download.  You could save or publish your trip.  Probably need to be an advertising revenue model, but ideal as so much of the data classifies the user.

Of course it may have already been done.  Please send me a link if you’ve seen such a thing.

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Comments(3)

    Comment by Jason Kemp at 9:33 pm on 9 September 2006

    Check out Chandler - Using a number of approaches to work with multiple calendars—

    Items are centered around objects that are meaningful to you, Events, Resources, Communications…Not around which file format they’re saved in or over which transport protocol you received them: IMAP, Journal.WebDAV, IMIP, iCal, RSS, IM, mailing lists, list-serves, et cetera.) In sum, Chandler strives to break down the technological walls that superficially organize your information into silos that are meaningless to you.




    Comment by Phil at 3:34 am on 10 September 2006

    I’ve noticed this before–never used it though:

    https://viewtrip.com/en-US/infuzeroverview.asp

    This was from a Flight Centre itinerary.




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