Social travel service TripSay adds groups (we have beta invites)
Written on June 25, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
TripSay, the recently unveiled social travel networking service, has added a ‘groups’ feature at the request of its beta users.
TripSay nicely caters to its community with a slew of social features, and the Google Maps, Flickr and YouTube integration works seamlessly. With the introduction of groups, users can now form mini communities within TripSay around any topic (e.g. Golf, Iron Maiden World Tour 2008, Hiking, etc.) and choose to do so publicly or privately between friends. According to the company, this also removes part of the irritation with anonymous reviews and recommendations, since it allows you to share your opinion with people you know and trust.
TripSay, which operates out of Finland, says it intends to move from invite-only to public beta this Summer. The business model will evidently consist of highly-targeted travel-related ads and affiliate fees to travel booking sites. TripSay faces competition from an emerging group of social travel sites, such as Driftr, HereOrThere, YowTrip, Rummble and others.
Would you like to be part of the thousands of beta users who are exploring TripSay today? The first 100 readers who send an e-mail to info [at] tripsay [dot] com with “nextweb” in the subject line get an invite.
(TripSay founders Leo Koivulehto and Juha Huttunen, photo credit Elliottng @Flickr)
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By Kaitsu on Jun 26, 2008
I want more mobile features! When traveling I want to rate and comment immediately… not at home or office.
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Rummble will allow you to do it while mobile. Here’s the info.
Rummble.com - Network Your Experiences
Global
Basic Info
Type: Common Interest - Travel
Description: Rummble is like a personalised Timeout-style guide written for you by your friends, and all their friends!
Its a great easy way to share all the cool places you know about in one place and allow your friends to easily access them when they travel.
Rather than find out EVERYTHING that’s nearby, we tell you whats nearby you’ll actually like. You share “Rummbles” (a review of any place or thing you like) and the system learns the level of trust of each person (and content) in your network from your behaviour - i.e. it makes intelligent choices, instead of just pushing content to you just because your friends say its good or because X people on the Web review it highly. Rummbles provides things you will actually like rather than what the collective agree is good.
You can use Rummble at home or on the move - next time you travel somewhere, log in on your mobile and find out who and what’s nearby.
… add in best of breed social networking functionality like news feeds, photos and all that stuff. It’s global and its mobile. You can share the good things in life with your friends.
Website: http://www.rummble.com
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Thanks Daniel, I like Rummble. Hate irrevelant spam blog comments though, so that makes me like Rummble a little less.
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By lukas on Aug 5, 2008
looks like a good service. i just came across it. however i am not sure wether it’s better thatn http://www.tripwolf.com
i mean they don’t have a mobile version yet but the site def looks good.
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