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How are YOU going to show off your traveling?

Ernst-Jan Written on 17th September 2008                                                                                                              10 COMMENTS some text
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Dopplr got a rather spectacular injection of money recently – adding names like Saul Klein to their financial backers. It meant a new episode in an online travel battle, where Dopplr shows power play – they have the celebrities behind them – and Tripit tries to seduce you with innovative travel-adding technologies.

But in the end, it all comes down to the viral effect of their services. If your friends are on one travel site, you aren’t likely to register on the other. So badges are vital. Dopplr already offered a public profile and widgets for a while, and now Tripit has added a blog widget to their arsenal as well.

The travel sites choose a completely different style. Ok, they both have the impressive statistics thing going on (as long as you travel a lot, of course), but where Dopplr seems to choose for cool maps and a visually appealing app, Tripit goes for simplicity and a RSS feed:

How are YOU going to show off your traveling? How are YOU going to show off your traveling?

So.., after reading this post, have you decided how to show of your traveling?

Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets

david Written on 27th January 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS some text
David Petherick, Contributing Editor, United Kingdom

A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart’s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace… the slight drawback is that the site is almost entirely in Japanese, but don’t worry, I’ve found the English interface so you can make your own Twitter Balloon.

The important element that I love is the ability to go back and forward in time to follow the history of one’s twitterings, or tweets, so one can follow a conversation or thread of insights and ideas. These may admittedly be somewhat disjointed, but more interesting that simply having the ‘latest’ information presented. I can see an nice extension of this with a tweet balloon gallery, or even a mashup where those referenced by one user’s conversation can be linked to dynamically, or to follow how a topic or issue is being discussed.

Here’s one I created for my friend Boris:

Do your own thing at Korelab’s English Twitter Balloon Creation Page.


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