TripSay: Tell Your Friends Where to Go
With tools like Dopplr, FireEagle, and BrightKite, many of us make it a regular habit to inform our contacts as to where we are and where we'll be. But sometimes, our paths of travel don't provide the most important insight: Why do we go there? TripSay hopes to change that by giving people a way to share information about the places they go - and why they recommend their friends go there, as well.
TripSay lives somewhere in the conflux of location-aware apps, personal mapping apps like Google Maps and Platial, and review sites like Yelp and BooRah, providing users with the ability to plot reviews and recommendations for other travelers.
Using content from Flickr, YouTube, and other services as well as user-entered information, TripSay helps travelers create detailed firsthand accounts of their experiences, recommend particular locations to likeminded travelers, suggest must see sites, and warn of potential dangers. Throw in some interesting icons, voting ala Digg and Reddit, and metrics on most visited places, and you've suddenly got a very vibrant community of crowdsourced travel information - with a central dashboard to manage it all.
