Gliider Launches Ask Around To Encourage Communities to Collaborate on Travel Decisions

Nov. 19, 2009 - PRLog -- Gliider Launches Ask Around To Encourage Communities to Collaborate on Travel Decisions

gliider, a browser-based travel research tool, announces today the release of Ask Around™, a breakthrough product feature that lets travelers query Facebook friends for travel advice. Ask Around lets travelers get travel advice from people they know and trust.

Ask Around stands to transform the nature of the travel advice and recommendation category in this unique marriage of the social graph and trip planning. No more must travelers rely on advice from strangers when it comes to choosing hotels, restaurants, and activities. gliider’s Ask Around lets travelers source travel advice from their friends—whose preferences and tastes provide valuable context for their opinions.

“Ask Around lets you make use of an invaluable travel resource—your friends,” said CEO Jordan Stolper. “Our goal is to empower travelers to get the best possible travel information for their trip. That’s why we built a tool that lets travelers cull knowledge from any site on the web. And know, from their network from friends.” Adds Stolper: “We’re thrilled to leveraging Facebook Connect in this exciting addition to the gliider platform.”

gliider is a Firefox-based research tool that lets travelers find and gather travel info from across the web, and then delivers to the user trip-specific deals and promotions. Travelers simply drag and drop travel information such as hotel and restaurant listings into the application. gliider then delivers personalized deals and promotions related to the trip. gliider has partnered with major industry players such as Travelzoo and Hotels.com to provide these deals.

The announcement comes as gliider presents its research platfom at the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit in Orlando.  This ground-breaking event showcases the latest and best technologies for travel planning and purchasing. CEO Jordan Stolper is one of twenty-three innovators from around the world selected to demonstrate applications, mobile technologies and solutions poised to transform the nature of travel research, planning, and purchasing

For more information go to www.gliider.com or follow gliider at www.twitter.com/gliider.

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About gliider: Brooklyn-based gliider is an early-stage startup and software platform that helps consumers make the most of their research. gliider works within and beyond travel to provide branded and white-label solutions that for users enrich the information gathering experience and for publishers and marketers create new, high-margin, high-conversion revenue streams. The gliider platform sits at the intersection of content and commerce—multiplying the value of content and then monetizing it—beginning with a simple drag and drop.