Yahoo Travel Awards Tracker (new)
 

New on Yahoo, for those who use "My Yahoo":
Travel Awards Tracker lets you track your miles/points on up to five airlines.

It's no MileTracker, but it looks like it might be handy for tracking your most active airline accounts without starting another application ... if you use My Yahoo already. Over 25 airlines are "participating". No hotel or MyPoints type programs are listed.

I've got it up on "my yahoo". Delta updated right away, the United website updated at least 5 days ago and has yet to register on yahoo. Northwest & Continental don't work at all; Southwest is not available. About useless in my book.

JP

Well I like it, **** it. I now have AA and UA on my yahoo page. They are the two airline sites I visit most frequently when checking miles.

Sure there are other airlines I can't check using this facility, but I don't check them as often.

With this on my yahoo page it saves me two visits!

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if anyone has a bank of america account, you can track all of your miles on there as well.. except it actually works... a very good tool to track your miles, as well as finances (credit cards, etc)..

www.mybankofamerica.com

kalman911: thanks for the tip on mybankofamerica.com; I am a BOA accountholder and currently use their online banking & bill pay services, but I had NO idea that *this* service/portal existed!

If any of you are First Union or Wachovia bank customers, they have a similar feature called OneStop. It allows you to keep track of all your FF programs, hotel programs, credit cards, MyPoints, utility bills, mortgage, ISP, Ebay, Amazon, etc,etc. I know there are some programs that do not subscribe (like America West) but the majority of the companies I use are available. It's FREE. Some allow you to store your userID and password and login with a one click. Check it out.

I discovered this program the other day while checking out some info at the Wachovia site... Have you used it ? It sounds great. Are there other banks / brokerage firms that offer something similar ?

Technically, it is actually not that tricky nowadays (as in I have seen people's software doing it and it did not seem like rocket science) to get a program going that tracks all your mileage accounts at once. You "just" need an account aggregation software that logs you in and "extracts" that information from certain pre-defined fields. Basically, one "trains a bot" and then that robot does it again and again for you without you having to go to the actual site. Only if the site that is being crawled by your robot changes their setup in a major way, the robot needs to be "re-trained". There is a company called Yodlee that does it for bank accounts, but for Mileage accounts it should normally be easier because there is often none or a lower encryption used.

Yodlee does all the hotel, air, car, finances, mortgages, credit cards, etc...Can't remember why I quit using it..BoA sounds better only because my wife uses their bill pay feature.

I'll second Kalman's post. The My Bank of America Site is awesome. If you already have an online account at various credit cards's, banks, airline freq. flier, etc, the site is quite easy to use. Now I don't have to visit 15 different sites each day to check up on my banking, posting of miles, credit card charges, etc. I highly recommend the site for current BofA account holders.

I have found "www.myciti.com" to be most useful thus far. You do not need to have a Citibank account and you can trach FF accounts, emails, bank accounts , insurance accounts and even have your own custom accounts..go to the "aggregated accounts" section
good luck

I believe the First Union/Wachovia "OneStop" is powered by Yodlee. You can log in once a day (or more often) and check all your FF balances, hotel, bank accounts (First Union and others) , mortgage, credit cards, utility bills, bill payment services, insurance, Investments (including 410k), loans, Chat (lycos, excite, msn), ISP mail, news, shopping, travel reservations, mobile downloads, calendars...etc,etc,etc.

I have been using it for a couple of years. They have gotten the bugs out of all the services I use HOWEVER, there area lot of them that I do not use. Works great for me.

They also have a bill payment service (separate) that is great. The only companies that I generally use that do not subscribe are my mortgage company, Comcast cable and America West airlines. You can create custom accounts for these companies so a window will open with one click and then you can log in. One other annoying feature is that some of the subscribing companies do not accept the login direct from OneStop. The "click" will get you there but you still have to login.

Just a disclaimer....I DO NOT work for Wachovia....but my partner does!

I am interested in hearing from some of you that have used OneStop and have found something better as long as it is NOT a Bank of America product. Don't even get me started on my horror stories with them.

Just to add to the posts I've made previously. Wachovia/First Union has a bill pay option also. I know we get this service free because we have a CAP (Capital Assets Management) account.

*From the Wachovia Website*

For Crown Banking, Crown Access, Crown Classic Checking, CAP-related accounts, and Wachovia Privileges customers, Online BillPay is a free feature.

Here is a link to OneStop. http://www.wachovia.com/misc/0,,43,00.html

The list of available companies is huge. I could not even begin to list them but categories include:
banks/banking, direct billers/bill payment services, credit cards, insurance, investments/investment accounts, loans, mortgage, chat/email/message boards, news, auctions, consumer guides, registries (wedding), e-Commerce reward programs, order summaries, specials & features, travel reward and mileage programs, travel reservations, calendars, career and downloads.


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Fidelity Investments also has an account aggregator called Full View. You have to be a customer to use it, but it's very useful. It is also Yodlee under the covers.

Any other users of these systems that would like to see America West joint up? I'm sure there are plenty of other airline that do not participate in these programs but most other major US airlines do. Shall we start an email campaign to HP? Any others? Wachovia was great at adding new accounts early on but it has slowed down a lot.

JP Morgan Chase also has a similar tool which have used for almost two years now ... check it out at chaseonlineplus.chase.com

Yahoo supports HP.

QL

I'll Third, Fourth, and Fifth it!! Thanks for the GREAT LEAD!!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

None of my accounts can be retrieved (AC, UA and CO)
I love Yahoo, but I cannot believe they launched something that buggy http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I would not use any "search opportunity" that utilities the Yodlee technology.

Alright, since you guys seem to be interested in some kind of technology with which you can scrape content from other websites - check this out. It's in German, but you know how these signup thingies work.

http://my.lycos.de/toolbar/install.html

I co-developed the concept for this a long time ago, but I have no commercial interest in its promotion anymore since I no longer work at that company. However, I still think it is a pretty unique tool - some journalist called it "My Yahoo on Steroids"... You can basically go to any website (well, most of them, as long as they don't use heaviest javascript), click on the "clip" button in your toolbar and then select an area of that website and add it to your personalized page (and then reposition it there as you wish by clicking on the header and dragging and dropping it). It's very simple to use and I don't think there is anything else like it on the web (there are still some little bugs in it, but in principle it works well). That's what I use to monitor several boards on Flyertalk at the same time (you can reload each box separately).

I set up a sample account into which you can log in once you have installed the toolbar (there is no spyware in it).

User: FlyerTalk - Pass: milesbuzz

Feel free to play around with it and give some comments. You can also aggregate account information there, however, there is no bot set up to log you in. So you will only be able to display data from other accounts if you have a logged in session there (works, e.g., with Hotmail if you have set it so that you are recognized with a cookie). I don't know if any frequent flyer accounts are accessible in that manner, probably they will usually make you log in each time manually. Account aggregation is a feature that my former team has ready, they have just decided not to add it yet to the product.

Well, anyway, this is definitely not an attempt to make a commercial presentation or anything - I am no longer affiliated with them at all. But it would be nice to see if someone likes the idea http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.

The following is copied from: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/privacy/

which ALSO governs this new service - The new service is provided by an outside contractor.

Make an informed choice to use this service.

What isn't mentioned in the new service material is if your password for your airline miles is sent via SLL encryption.

"Yahoo! uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients."

"Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:


We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information."

"We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Your Yahoo! Account Information is password-protected.
In certain areas Yahoo! uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
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Most of the above mentioned services are provided by yodlee.com - I use them directly for my account aggregation needs. They also have a cool app that will sync your on-line data with your Palm.

How do you sync your yodlee information with your palm?

From what I could tell, Citi's implementation of Yodlee's aggregation service isn't the "full" version that you find at Yodlee.com's site and there are a number of vendors/accounts that Citi doesn't list or support that you find on Yodlee. One example is United's Mileage Plus frequent flyer program which is listed on Yodlee but not on Citi.