Archive for November, 2008

ITS world congress

November 17, 2008

This week I’m attending the ITS world congress in New York. This congress is turning out to probably be the largest congress to date.

So watch this space for reports from the show on events and presentations as well as a review of some of the upcoming technology displayed at the exhibition.

If you want to catch up with me I’ll be at the following presentations.

Monday

13:30 – 15:00 TS12 moderator

15:30 – 17:00 Speaker SS08

Wednesday

10:30 – 12:00 SS38 Moderator

Thursday

8:30 – 10:00 TS98 Moderator

For more details visit the ITS congress website.

Tripit an iPhone application

November 3, 2008

I blogged about the iPhone and travel applications a few posts back, we also mentioned the Mobimate application as well which acts as a travel assistant.

However another application has come to light with the addition of a new iPhone in my household I’ve also stumbled across an application called TripIt.

Similar to mobimate in some respects, this application allows you email your hotel and travel bookings to an address to build your travel itinerary and will then use your location combined with your travel plans to give you location specific advice and tips.

There is also a social networking aspect where several users of the application can share their itineraries and when overlap occurs this highlighted to you through its location based alert service.

Once the application has scanned in your emails and understands your itinerary you will get goggle maps driving directions, local information from Wikipedia, local pictures, current events (from Eventful), and restaurant reviews and recommendations (via OpenTable). And if you are flying, Tripit will even offer you seat advice (courtesy of SeatGuru).

A sample itinerary can be found here

The best thing of all about this apple iPhone travel application is that it is free! Some good ideas for the i-Travel application.

Find out more at Tripits website.


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