This is an exciting concept that has been tackled by many teams, few of which have yet been able to reach significant scale. But I believe it will happen. Feastly (http://eatfeastly.com/) is a similar approach that is active in the US. (I'm an advisor) The restaurant industry is massive (in the US, it's three times the size of the accommodations industry) so winning even a small slice is a win.

This is somewhat off-topic, but it seems kind of odd that they went with a "ly" name but didn't use that TLD, especially since "feastly" doesn't make a lot of sense except to associate with that trend.

It looks like a cool service though, I requested an invite.

Thanks. I can't wait to see what Feastly will look like. I wish them the best of luck !

It's a tough battle out there but it's very interesting !

carl sagan has a great section about this in 'the demon haunted world' - he describes / speculates how many modern stories of 'alien abduction' can be explained by sleep paralysis.

it's usually caused by disrupted sleep patterns. i get it pretty often if i take a nap - my trick to get out of it is to try to wiggle the fingertips first.

for people who want to try out or develop with less without installing the ruby gem, you can compile documents via http here: http://www.tripeedo.com/less

this is very cool, and the beginning of a trend, it seems to me. the whole semantic web depends on structured information, but it's a pain to structure information. it makes a lot of sense that the services to structure plain text will be made available as APIs - eg to extract geo information, date and time information, contact information, etc.

while remaining dead simple to use, heroku is also becoming an increasingly sophisticated platform, capable of handling a wide variety of app requirements. eg - background workers and memcached support are available in beta. since i started using heroku for tripeedo.com, the traditional server hosts are looking a lot like dinosaurs.

for those who missed it, this comment refers to the hacking of this story. hacker news was briefly hacked, and this story was altered to link to a website (hosted at appjet) that let users edit the text of pg's profile. it was fixed within a half hour or so.

also, the interface is optimized for speed and convenience. you can type 'www.bestbuy.com' into your iphone, but given the choice, our feeling is that many people will prefer to use an app that minimizes typing and maximizes speed.

frankfurt/main is now the top match for 'frankfurt'. :)

the way to specify an airport if the top match is not right is just to keep typing. eg: london => london all airports (lon); london gatw => london, gatwick (lgw); lon hea => london, heathrow (lhr)

similarly: sa fr => san francisco; sa di => san diego

typing frankfurt/main didn't work because the slash was confusing the interpreter. i'm fixing that right now.

yeah, that's one option we're thinking about. we went with popups initially because 1) it's simpler and 2) it wasn't clear that loading up 10 windows in iframes would necessarily be a better user experience. it's something we're going to look at more closely. our approach to tripeedo has definitely been to try to keep things as simple as possible.