As Scoble talked about “here”:1 this “Kayak Buzz”:2 thing is pretty cool. Here’s what it looks like…

The Kayak buzz service lets you see on one web page both a list and, more important, visually _buzz_ fares (discount fares, I assume) for any searched on city (one with an airport anyway). The list is great, and is an important way of seeing information, but it is the visual component that shows the commercial power of the new web future — the future of API-accessible services (Google’s mapping service in this case). I guess this might even be an example of “Web 2.0″:5 or whatever.

What will the commercial relationships of the Kayaks and Googles of the future be? This could be a big business for some body… or surely bodies. The “Intel Insides”:6 of the future.

Update: 2005-11-08
Oh, just in case you thought Google was going to own the mapping service market from the get go, Yahoo!’s been getting some rave reviews for their new map APIs. For example, here’s a quote from the O’Reilly Radar blog…

bq.. …this release is a major strike by Yahoo! I didn’t think their first maps API was anything to write home about, but they haven’t just played catch-up to Google with their second maps API. They’ve overtaken Google in functionality and in elegance. A much-needed offensive in the mapping wars.

p. For the full review, check out this O’Reilly “post”:7.

[7(O'Reilly Radar on Yahoo!'s new map API)]http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/11/yahoo_announce_nextgen_maps_ap.html
[6(Wikipedia on the Intel Inside advertising campaign)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Advertising
[5(Wikipedia on Web 2.0)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
[4(Wikipedia on thingamajig)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingamajig
[3(Buzz fares for LAX)]http://www.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights?code=LAX
[2(Kayak travel search buzz fares for any city)]http://www.kayak.com/h/buzz/
[1(Scoble post on Kayak buzz)]http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/06/kayak-buzz-brings-best-airfares/