This is a nice idea to get / offer a cheap bed when travelling: AirBed & Breakfast. The service needs a free account, where you can check for events. If you found one (or add a new one), you can post for or offer a bed. You will meet with people like you and no anonymous hotel.
Link: AirBed & Breakfast
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Travature is a unique online travel community where you can compare airfare, research new destinations, review the best and worst restaurants and hotels throughout the world, share trip photos, and discuss your travel experiences on a personal level with other people just like you.
Link: Travature
Another travel-oriented community site is citiport. There, you will find different cities / places with ideas what to do and how to get there, presented by locals.
Something similar, but not quite as same is Hi Everywhere!.
Link: Citiport
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Hi Everywhere! is kind of a social network / platform for local guides who offer their help and knowledge to people new in a country. It’s for free and simple to use:
Check it out, it’s great! You will learn far more about a city and their people with a local guide than on your own.
Link: Hi Everywhere!
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Kango is a travel search engine, but different than Kayak or other air fare comparison services. Kango wants to help you to get your travel plan right. Once you’re where you want to go, that’s where Kango is getting interesting: normally, you would collect information from thousands of microsites (like this!) and notes from other travelers. Kango indexes all of them and with the help of semantic technology, it detects destinations, activities and so on.
At the moment it’s limited to California and Hawaii, but this will change soon.
Link: Kango
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When planning a trip, and I mean planning, not booking, than it may be worth to have a look at airfares. Why? Airfares are very volative, that is they rise and fall over a certain peroid quickly. If you have time to follow them, it is wise to buy when they are are their lows. But how to track them? This is where Yapta comes into play.
Yapta is a plugin for IE and Firefox (Mac and Windows) which helps you to track and compare airfares for as long as you want. You can bookmark certain flights, and get messages. Handy!
Alternatives are Vayama and Farecast.
Link: Yapta
Docoloco has a simple idea: you know a good place to eat, to go out, to stay or to have fun, post it on Docoloco and recommend food, places, … for others - locally. You can browse for San Francisco, or Berlin in Germany as well as Melbourne in Australia.
If you need a good advise where to eat sushi, check out Docoloco. Docoloco provides you a city map including the recommendations by users, their comments and the links to theses places and businesses.
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A simple, but informative mashup of data (flight information) and Google Maps is FlightWait. FlightWait is, hmm, all about air traffic above the US, indicating any flight which is delayed. You will see these flights on your screen, marked with different colors (means different delays from 0-15 min to more than 2 hrs). The data is provided by the FAA (Federeal Aviation Association).
Link: FlightWait
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Today, I will present you a quite new VideoChat service, it’s called SeeToo and has some nice features. What’s the idea behind SeeToo?
Let’s say you’re right now at our surf beach in Costa Rica and had some great waves this morning. Your buddy made a nice video of your last ride, and you want to share it with your surfing buddies at home. Instead of sending it via email, which is not suitable due to the size of the file, and instead of uploading it on YouTube so everyone will have a look at it, you can go to SeeToo and upload the file from your PC at the internet café. The say to SeeToo to send an invitation to your friend at home. If he’s online, you can watch the videoclip together and chat about it simultaneously.
An alternative service may be Vlip and Orgoo.
Link: SeeToo
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Sometimes, it is very useful to use one email-address for all. But without an own email-server or hosted services, this is difficult. With Innercircle, it is easy:
The big advantage is that you don’t have to enter / know anymore individual email-addresses of your friends, but only your shared one! This is perfect for travelling or if you have a circle of friends all over the world.
Link: Innercicle
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