Just for fun. Maybe it’s been a quiet week at Kayak Towers? No major news – such as Google’s hotel meta move – to react to or worry about.
Instead, the so-called “flippy” destination board, which features during Kayak’s recent series of TV ads, has been wheeled out as a plaything for users.
Even chief technology officer and co-founder Paul English is Tweeting about it.
CEO Steve Hafner and English have created a special message for Google.
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That is quite fun isn’t it!
This is awesome! I’ve already made a few billboards and sent them around.. great idea!
@ian c – yeah, rather fun i thought.
ok, I made a flippy but I am not sharing. Fun idea.
@pat – anything to do with bloggers and SEO by chance?
This is extremely clever marketing on Kayak’s part. good likelihood of going viral. I’ve already started tweeting out this http://twitpic.com/1b1qg3