Re:Startup Hipmunk offers dazzling new view of flight search
by mansilla on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:51PM
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I predict that it's only a matter of (short) time before one or more of the larger airfare search engines start to clone the output visualization. I understood it the first moment I looked at it.. just made sense, really. Great job, Hipmunk.. logo is cuddly adorable, too. :)
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Re:Startup Hipmunk offers dazzling new view of flight search
by kn0thing on Thursday August 19, 2010 @06:07PM
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They should clone the visualization, but if other large companies are any indication, the process will take months. They can't clone the hipmunk, though ;) thanks for validating my doodle-work.
Re:Startup Hipmunk offers dazzling new view of flight search
by jacquesm on Thursday August 19, 2010 @06:25PM
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The hipmunk is a stroke of brilliance.
In the article it says:
> Hipmunk's flight-goggled chipmunk mascot has the same "awww" factor as Twitter's iconic bluebird. With that, Hipmunk was born.
But I think it goes far beyond the Twitter bird, which to me looks very sterile and artificial. This little guy is cool, like the Scrat character from ice-age.