Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches
According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming. According to the comScore study, the average online vacation plan comes together through 12 travel-related searches and visits to 22 different web sites over the course of 29 days. Semantic search startup UpTake (formerly Kango) aims to make that process easier. UpTake is a vertical search engine that has assembled what it says is the largest database of US hotels and activities -- over 400,000 of them -- from more than 1,000 different travel sites. What UpTake isn't, is a booking engine like Expedia, a meta price search engine like Kayak, or a travel community. A simplified example ontology is depicted below. Conclusion What do you think of UpTake?
Tripline's Use of Google Geo APIs
Tripline The Google Geo Developers Blog has a great guest post from Byron Dumbrill, Founder & CEO of Tripline. Tripline was one of my Maps of the Week last month. Tripline allows anyone to easily create an embeddable interactive Google Map of a journey or trip. I particularly like how the map uses animated lines to connect each stage of a user created trip. Byron says that another advantage of using the Google Maps API for Flash is that it makes the created maps easy to share. The lesson for other Google Maps developers is that if you want your users to be able to embed your maps then you should seriously consider using the Google Maps API for Flash. Via: Google Geo Developers Blog
Draw Your Itinerary On A Tripline Map
Having just returned from a vacation, I’m in the midst of uploading videos and photos so I can send our visual memories of the trip to family and friends. But what if you could create an animated slideshow of sorts that would include an interactive map of your itinerary with photos, videos, Tweets, and even Foursquare check-ins from your trip? Tripline has launched to allow users tell a story of a trip by putting places, images and information on a map. Tripline allows you to create an interactive, embeddable map detailing a trip using your destinations. You essentially create a timeline of your stops within a country or city and tag each stop with descriptions of your activities and include images as well. You can connect with Facebook to add any of your friends who went on the trip with you. The most obvious use is to be able to share itineraries and trips with anyone easily and visually.
About Us
A note from Founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill Thanks very much for visiting. We've worked very hard to create something unique with Tripline, and we hope you enjoy what we've built so far. We're still in Beta and we release new features every couple of weeks, so if there's something you'd like to see, click on the [feedback] link to the left, or contact us directly. We're only three people, but we'll usually get back to you pretty quickly. Share With The People You Care About At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map. Your Plans Become Your Stories One of the earliest concept slides I put together had a simple statement: "Planning is a creative process". A Window On The World Aside from the most obvious use (travel planning and sharing), we've built Tripline to help you tell any story that involves moving across the map. Maps As Media Objects The story behind the origins of the Tripline concept goes back to May of 2005 - five years ago! Facebook
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