Here’s a look at the new breed of social travel sites and apps taking part in the Startup Battlefield at TechCruch Disrupt San Francisco. Some of the notable new sites include Triptease, Outtrippin, Tripsidea, Locish, Spotsetter, Diveboard and Flights with Friends.
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Final reflections on the Traveling Geeks trip
It has been one month since the Traveling Geeks kicked off our trip to London and Cambridge with a Tweetup at JuJu in Chelsea. (I was the chief organizer of trip.) From this distance and vantage point, here are a few random impressions: • I think too much can be made of the differences between […]
Woices: a new oral information tool for travelers
David Ciudad Rodriguez passes along word of a new site from Spain (I think) called Woices. It’s a free internet service that allows people to create, share and consume “echoes”: audio records that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object. Rodriguez says Woices’s ultimate goal is “to create a new […]
In Tikal, temples in the mist
I used to be a free-lance travel writer, so the main story in Sunday’s NY Times Travel section caught my eye: In Tikal, Temples in the Mist. It’s a look at the greatest ruins of the Mayan civilization, found deep in the rain forest of Guatemala. I visited there more than a decade ago: here’s […]
Back from Baja
Had some fun in Baja over the weekend. Connection speeds By the way, the broadband connection speeds from the complex I was staying at in Baja were surprisingly good: Velocidad Internet: download 1721 kbps; upload 892 kbps; Internet Frog: download 1.4 Mbps; upload 858 kbps. Compare that (again, Internet Frog) to my Comcast service at […]