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How cool would it be if you could type "flights to somewhere sunny for under $500 in May"

How cool would it be to receive suggestions for flights in May with clusters in my social graph as destinations?

Right because before I had to keep random acquaintances as friends and read their updates in order not to hurt their feelings, now I have to fly to random places in order not to hurt peoples feelings. Can't wait.

I had a business acquaintance get her feelings hurt because I didn't follow her back when she followed me on Twitter. I looked at her feed and she literally had tweeted about her breakfast that morning.

I quit Twitter instead so that I wouldn't have to hurt anyone's feelings anymore.

What about just not caring whether you hurt someone's trivial feelings? That is becoming an important feeling in this ever-connected world.

Ugh, that should have said "important skill". Too late to edit now.

I wasn't getting much value out of Twitter anyway (not a judgement on Twitter's value, just on what I was getting out of it), and my business depends a lot on maintaining healthy relationships with lots of people, since we grow primarily by referral. It just made sense to drop Twitter altogether and tell people instead that I don't use it.

Sounds reasonable :-)

I don't think that's a problem for everyone (I aim for linkedin/facebook separation for these reasons)... Nevertheless, you could filter by the "hide this post from" list, weights of friendship (amount of likes, views, etc.) and other statistics... Of course, this is only viable if you have friends/family all around the place, not just in your locality (definitely not for everyone). Still, seems like a nice advertising focus trick.

To your first question, you should take a look at http://adioso.com/ (YC W09) by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhoward

Has been covered a few times on HN already e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1651737

The first question is not mine, but a quote from the article. But I never knew of Adioso and it seems quite neat! So thanks :)

I'm working on something like that -- I'm starting with discovering where you can go on your airline miles, but it's all visual. I'm planning on integrating suggestions of low miles tickets where your friends are. I know this isn't quite what you're suggesting, but I'll be getting there :)

I just have a launch page up right now: http://flybymiles.com - but private beta coming next week.

In the meantime check out http://wanderfly.com - they could use a much better recommendation engine, but the content is there (ie: beach for $500)

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