bouncin' 'round the web.

So Microsoft is working with Mr. Youth to run a student marketing rep program? With Volt as the staffing agency? What's this about RepNation as the "country's leading student rep network?" The whole model smells awfully familiar. (Thanks, Morin, for the tip.)

Farecast went beta today, launching with the Seattle and Beantown market. (Interestingly, the only two cities I would live in outside of the Bay Area. And Ann Arbor for the next twelve months.)



Apparently, Farecast has aggregated billions of pieces of data to help predict whether airfares between markets will go up or down in the next seven days. Cool. I've always been fascinated by the airline industry. Here's another speculative tool (see the early days of Priceline and the killer Farechase Yahoo! app).

Hell, any information is good information. Well, maybe.