Social travel service TripSay adds groups (we have beta invites)

Written on June 25, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer

TripSay, the recently unveiled social travel networking service, has added a ‘groups’ feature at the request of its beta users.

TripSay nicely caters to its community with a slew of social features, and the Google Maps, Flickr and YouTube integration works seamlessly. With the introduction of groups, users can now form mini communities within TripSay around any topic (e.g. Golf, Iron Maiden World Tour 2008, Hiking, etc.) and choose to do so publicly or privately between friends. According to the company, this also removes part of the irritation with anonymous reviews and recommendations, since it allows you to share your opinion with people you know and trust.

TripSay Groups

TripSay, which operates out of Finland, says it intends to move from invite-only to public beta this Summer. The business model will evidently consist of highly-targeted travel-related ads and affiliate fees to travel booking sites. TripSay faces competition from an emerging group of social travel sites, such as Driftr, HereOrThere, YowTrip, Rummble and others.

Would you like to be part of the thousands of beta users who are exploring TripSay today? The first 100 readers who send an e-mail to info [at] tripsay [dot] com with “nextweb” in the subject line get an invite.

(TripSay founders Leo Koivulehto and Juha Huttunen, photo credit Elliottng @Flickr)

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About the author: Robin Wauters is a Belgium-based social media consultant, startup advisor, blogger, entrepreneur, Twitter fanatic, conference organizer and allround web addict. Between trying out just about every new web application that gets in his sight, he advises local startups like ContactOffice, Oxynade and Yuntaa. And when he's not busy trying to keep tabs with what's going on in the virtualization & cloud computing industry as managing editor of Virtualization.com, he's probably working on the organization of Plugg, an annual celebration of European web entrepreneurship.

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2 comments to “Social travel service TripSay adds groups (we have beta invites)”

By Kaitsu on Jun 26, 2008

I want more mobile features! When traveling I want to rate and comment immediately… not at home or office.

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By lukas on Aug 5, 2008

looks like a good service. i just came across it. however i am not sure wether it’s better thatn http://www.tripwolf.com

i mean they don’t have a mobile version yet but the site def looks good.

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