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    New ways social media can make staying home a good idea

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Welcome back to proxies don't come -- I'm Jonathan Hunt now a lot of you -- probably still traveling all planning.

You'll some travel plans if you need help.

One of the new web sites at that help you plan is called go go ball go google.com.

Its founder and CEO.

Is Travis -- he's with us now.

Here in the in the studio -- first to -- Trip advisor Conde Nast traveler Expedia.

There are so many travel web sites at that how it feels different how is he was back.

So go by is different from other sites and that -- about lets you connect to people that you know and trust your friends -- sites like FaceBook and Twitter.

To get personalized advice about where you should go on what you should do on your next trip.

To the ideas that.

There's never been a shortage of information in fact you could argue with all these -- there's more information about travel out there than there ever happened before the biggest problem facing people today.

Is how to -- find information that's personally relevant to me as opposed to.

Somebody else you know everybody's tastes are different you know you're thinking about what's the best hotels to stay and Cabo San Lucas.

Yes it may be very different to hear a banker gold -- wants a sweeping view of the ocean verses.

You know a young family doesn't mind walking a few blocks to be -- there's good activities for kids.

We're about helping you find that personalized advice through the people that you know and trust and laughs so this is this -- you go through your own friends of film on you FaceBook application hole what that is what you get information from everybody -- that so so what happens -- you can connect -- go about a count your FaceBook account your Twitter account your foursquare count.

You can post questions out here friends and get back personalize it -- you may ask you know I'm looking for a good place to go this weekend are good restaurant to -- -- tonight.

And people can answer and then go about what's different then post that question just directly on FaceBook is we link all their answers to.

Pages about -- places we can read more reviews from other travelers you can see photos you can see where -- -- -- -- that saves you a lot of time -- other ways that you might do this do you.

I said really mean Green to move -- did you guys would trust your friends when looking for travel advice more than you would trust like -- -- something like them.

Absolutely.

And I actually am a huge fan of this conversation because I've got a severe.

Issue with -- CD internal phobia and and my friends they know this about me they know how debilitating -- this and so and I am traveling I do reach out to them and -- -- like okay knowing me.

Where would you recommend that I -- given all of my you know ridiculous as you move.

-- -- -- -- -- They're trying to call -- -- -- war.

Some time ago -- gorgeous trip to Europe for I think he's usually really matter and regularity are very dangerous holes the only thing you know -- -- -- -- -- -- I want to go to Paris I would challenge any harm just doesn't deliver -- limited's third -- Over the -- got a triple what -- Xstrata towers go -- -- doing is it is it building a love big audience on them yeah it's growing tremendously fast we don't discuss -- -- numbers show publicly backed.

We're -- tremendously faster getting a ton and I kind of attention and people really are doing -- -- to people like.

Expedia and -- the old traditional and guy needs like food is not to think HE.

Well I don't know I I think everybody likes losing his room for a little bit but it isn't what we're doing is incredibly disruptive if you think about what's been happening broadly on the Internet you're seeing this sort of social wave sweeping through various sites like FaceBook and I have sort of taken the wind out of sales at places like Yahoo! and MS and the gaming space -- companies like seeing rather than electronic arts or Nintendo that are becoming hot.

This sort of social phenomenon is really changing people's expectations about the Internet.

We're the first company that's really taking advantage there's no real way about how can you leverage -- -- -- to make people give people better vacations so.

-- there was a little bit nervous though we're doing there certainly paying attention.

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