BlogWorld Expo 2007 - My Italian Friend
Written by on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Travel, Technology, Blogging, BlogWorldExpo07, Mobissimo, rental cars.
Today I decided to stop by BlogWorld Expo over my lunch. I figured I should at least stop by and say hi to a few people. It’s been pretty much as expected. Although, I must tell you that I was a bit surprised. Of course, the first thing that I wanted to do when I got here was to pull out my laptop and blog about it. In fact, as I walked I was just thinking about all the things that could be blogged about.
Well, I pulled out my laptop when I saw the bloggers lounge so I could blog and it turns out that the girl I’m sitting next to speaks Italian. Of course this is very excited for me since I love to speak Italian. To make it even more odd, the girl and guy that were sitting across the way were also speaking Italian. I’m not sure why, because the girl next to me is actually from france and pretty much speaks every language of the European Union. Was it just coincidence that everyone at this table speaks Italian (including me)? I think not. I should have put up a sign that said “Italian Table.”
I guess there is one other possibility of what was happening. The girl next to me is from a travel search website called Mobissimo. I guess it’s similar to Kayak or Sidestep, but she said that it searches something like 180 sites (the website says 176 sites) for the best deals which makes them larger than Kayak or Sidestep. Maybe later I’ll have to do a test to see if the extra sites find better deals or if maybe it is just better on an international level and the US sites are the same. I do think I’ll try it out for finding a rental car for my trip to Hawaii.
Turns out that it was the same price as what I would have found on travelocity, but I like it better since it’s much nicer for me to purchase it on Enterprise.com as opposed to travelocity.com. I just have more faith that I can change it if there are problems. I imagine Mobissimo is taking a cut from referrals. Either way, the process was seamless. Mobissimo could use a bit of work on the look of their site and I was sad they didn’t have the ajax city search so I only had to type Hon instead of Honolulu. However, it was pretty fast.
Interestingly, I really did need a rental car for our trip to Hawaii so I decided to book our rental using Mobissimo. Who would have thought that it would be beneficial for Beatrice, Co-founder and CEO of Mobissimo to go to a Blogger conference?