TripSay, the site that uses social recommendations to guide users through the plethora of travel information on the web, has introduced a number of new features that it hopes will improve the site’s accuracy and encourage collaboration.
The site now features leaderboards that should encourage users to become “experts” in their region, which will be essential if it hopes to generate worthwhile content. Users now also can create groups, where they’ll be able share information and travel plans with trusted friends.
In conjunction with these new features, TripSay is expanding its private beta; TechCrunch readers can grab one of 500 invites by emailing info@tripsay.com. TripSay competes with countless other travel sites, but tries to differentiate itself by offering fewer, but more targeted, recommendations.
we are currently only available in public beta in german speaking areas but soon to come in english speaking countries.
http://www.tripwolf.com offers similar features compared to tripsay. users can claim themselves as so-called “trip gurus” for specific countries or destinations. a major benefit we offer, compared to “the plethora of other travel sites” are more than 200.000 destinations and points of interest, provided by one of the world’s largest travel publishers, MairDumont.
anyhow, we are looking forward to a dynamic future of web 2.0 and travel and all the best to tripsay!
lukas
tripwolf.com
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disclosure: I forgot to obviously declare myself as a member of the tripwolf team – sorry! I just noticed you can’t edit your comments on TC, how come?…
Congrats, TripSay. It’s always interesting to see what other travel web 2.0 companies are doing. We’re in the same industry but targeting different audiences. YowTRIP (http://www.yowtrip.com) focuses on connecting world travelers with similar travel plans.
The closest to what you guys (TripSay and TripWolf) have would be our YowEXPERTS section, where they give their basic opinion about a place, but we encourage the “experts” to be available to answer specific questions a fellow traveler might have.
Good luck to you all. It’s an exciting field, isn’t it?
Thanks Techcrunch for providing the invite email . I will use it for my travel plans