Sabre Holdings announced yesterday that they plan to roll out a social networking product for the corporate marketplace. American Express Travel will use the product and I assume this is what Charles Petruccelli referred to at the last PhocusWright conference.

It will be interesting to see what the tool looks like when it is rolled-out, screenshots for the cubeless product from Sabre are available at cubeless.com.

As we have said for quite a while: getting recommendations from colleagues and other trusted sources can make business travel a lot easier. There is no doubt that companies will embrace tools that have been available for leisure travelers as a way to increase service, lower costs and drive compliance. It will be interesting to see how the concept of “openness” and “sharing” that is the heart of Web 2.0 will look like in an enterprise environment.

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