Writing your feelings down, even a single thought, it a great idea to catch a moment. Hitotoki does it for you and others, and you can read those moments from different places on earth. Check it out, it’s worth giving it a try: Hitotoki.

Ruba is a travel review site with content from the community. Individuals can create guides and upload them, other users can read, review and rate them. A lot of text and images to go through, with information from all continents.

A new niche service just opened their doors for all outdoor fans: Kijubi. Search, compare and book your local outdoor experience provider. Actually, activities in some US states are bookable among many many activity types. A very new service, but seems interesting!

One of the many hotel review sites in the web, Oyster offers more than just five-star ratings. You get professional reviews from professional testers who are not associated with any hotel. Those testers work anonymously, so they report about about hotel conditions as they found them. The advantage of this system is that the testers are not anonymous to the community as other services practice it. Such ratings can be faked or manipulated.

But have a view yourself and see the difference.

This is a very cool online service to provide digital memories of your last Costa Rica & Zopilote Surf Camp stay: Animoto. With a few short clips, a few pics and decent sound, Animoto turns your material in a superb video movie / slide show of a few minutes length.

It’s for free and online. And you can win a trip to N.Y. if you hurry up…

Link: Animoto

For all outdoor fans in North America, this could be a viable online resource: NWF (National Wildlife Federation) offers a nice database of national parks, nature events and other nature resources. The data can be filtered through a mask of geographical and activity-related parameters.

A nice tool for travel blogging and show casing is TripNTale. I would describe it as a personal portal to all my travels in the past - including stories, fotos (of course), maps and so on. You’ll receive an unlimited storage for your material, and build up a kind of network through comments and a guestbook.

Other services in this field to be used additionally are Iwannagothere, TripWolf and MyLifeOfTravel. For books, check Lonely Planet…

Wow, this is an ultimative website for all travel lovers! Sosause has many things to provide - text, images, travel facts, user provided info, even a 3D antarctica! There is so much to explore, even if you won’t using the site on a active basis, there is a lot to discover!

And that’s what the site says:

“For the first time, you can definitively answer the familiar question, “How was your trip?” Build your itinerary, then add journals, photos, reviews, and even specific points of interest to your destinations across an interactive map. When you’re finished, you’ll have 4+ ways to get it out to others.”

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Ramamia offers an online exchange plattform and news tool for families, groups of friends or other social entities with the idea to have a private online media. You can share fotos, news, links and comments only within the members of the group.

Automatic notifications help to keep in touch and get all news. Great for ex-pats too or families separated geographically.

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Another element of the continued evolving source of online travel tools is TripBase. TripBase’s idea is to generate vacation ideas based on the user’s data - a control panel you can adapt and consisting of your preferences (nightlife, sightseeing, shopping, nature and dining).

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