Tuesday, October 5, 2010

SG Hill Goes Public

While not exactly an IPO, I've recently heard of a rather neat service aimed at travelers. You've possibly noticed the new box on the right from TripIt alerting fellow blogfans that I'm currently in Los Angeles.

There are a handful of post-worthy features of TripIt --

  1. data-tracking
  2. contact-alerting
  3. keeping everyone in the loop
After registering, you forward itineraries to a magical email address at TripIt. The service then adds a trip to your profile and begins to tally miles and locations visited.

As can be expected of almost every app these days, there is a friending and social networking portion. If you'd like to connect and compete with miles, then certainly head over to my profile. At the time of writing, I'm the leader of my six connections by over 10,000 miles (Thanks, Bangalore!)

2 comments:

  1. The magical email address creeps me out just a bit...

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  2. @Julie:

    If it helps, the itinerary needs to be forwarded from an email address you register with the service.

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